AHRQ Innovations Exchange

AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange Focuses on Medical Home Models for Specialty Care

The January 30 issue of AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange highlights efforts to adapt patient-centered medical home models for use in specialty practices. Profiles include a community-based oncology practice in Pennsylvania that redesigned its care delivery processes and a pediatric center in Virginia serving children with special health care needs. In the policy area, Community Care of North Carolina, a statewide public–private partnership, adapted its successful primary care medical home model to serve pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries. The initiative has enhanced access to comprehensive prenatal care, including access to care coordination for women with high-risk pregnancies. Preliminary data suggest this initiative has also increased provider adherence to evidence-based care standards and has reduced the incidence of low birth-weight infants and the rate of primary cesarean sections. Read about more innovation profiles and tools related to medical homes on the Innovations Exchange Web site, which contains more than 750 searchable innovations and 1,500 quality tools.
Community-Based Oncology Practice Redesigns Processes Based on Patient-Centered Medical Home Model To Enhance Access, Improve Quality, and Reduce Costs | AHRQ Innovations Exchange

Pediatric Center Offers Coordinated, Culturally Appropriate Services, Increasing Access to Comprehensive Care for Low-Income Children With Special Health Care Needs | AHRQ Innovations Exchange

Statewide Medical Home Program for Low-Income Pregnant Women Enhances Access to Comprehensive Prenatal Care and Case Management, Improves Outcomes | AHRQ Innovations Exchange

Innovations & QualityTools | AHRQ Innovations Exchange