Module Assignment
Background
PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME, AMBULATORY CARE, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, AND MENTAL HEALTH
Module Home
PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME, AMBULATORY CARE, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, AND MENTAL HEALTH
Modular Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to satisfy the following outcomes:
• Case
o Evaluate data using the quantitative methods and summarize the survey data regarding health care delivery quality.
• SLP
o Research and analyze a Patient-Centered Medical Home, Ambulatory Care, Community Health Centers, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, or Mental Health, and formulate solid recommendations for the future of health care delivery within the selected facility.
• Discussion
o Analyze the history of patient-centered medical homes and hypothesize essential trends for the prospective patient-centered medical homes.
Module Overview
AHRQ's Definition of the Medical Home
The medical home model holds promise to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered. Building on the work of a large and growing community, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines a medical home not simply as a place but as a model of the organization of primary care that delivers the core functions of primary health care.
The medical home encompasses five functions and attributes:
• Patient-centered: The primary care medical home provides primary health care that is relationship-based with an orientation toward the whole person. Partnering with patients and their families requires understanding and respecting each patient's unique needs, culture, values, and preferences. The medical home practice actively supports patients in learning to manage and organize their own care at the level the patient chooses. Recognizing that patients and families are core members of the care team, medical home practices ensure that they are fully informed partners in establishing care plans.
• Comprehensive care: The primary care medical home is accountable for meeting the majority of each patient's physical and mental health care needs, including prevention and wellness, acute care, and chronic care. Providing comprehensive care requires a team of care providers. This team might include physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, social workers, educators, and care coordinators. Although some medical home practices may bring together large and diverse teams of care providers to meet the needs of their patients, many others, including smaller practices, will build virtual teams linking themselves and their patients to providers and services in their communities.
• Coordinated care: The primary care medical home coordinates care across all elements of the broader health care system, including specialty care, hospitals, home health care, and community services and supports. Such coordination is particularly critical during transitions between sites of care, such as when patients are being discharged from the hospital. Medical home practices also excel at building clear and open communication among patients and families, the medical home, and members of the broader care team.
• Superb access to care: The primary care medical home delivers accessible services with shorter waiting times for urgent needs, enhanced in-person hours, around-the-clock telephone or electronic access to a member of the care team, and alternative methods of communication such as e-mail and telephone care. The medical home practice is responsive to patients' preferences regarding access.
• A systems-based approach to quality and safety: The primary care medical home demonstrates a commitment to quality and quality improvement by ongoing engagement in activities such as using evidence-based medicine and clinical decision-support tools to guide shared decision making with patients and families, engaging in performance measurement and improvement, measuring and responding to patient experiences and patient satisfaction, and practicing population health management. Sharing robust quality and safety data and improvement activities publicly is also an important marker of a system-level commitment to quality. Methods of reliable measures of quality and patient safety to improve health can be found at the Agency for Health Research and Quality's National Quality Measure Clearinghouse.
Quantitative Methods:
Quantitative research deals in numbers, logic, and an objective stance. Quantitative research focuses on numeric and unchanging data and detailed, convergent reasoning rather than divergent reasoning (i.e., the generation of a variety of ideas about a research problem in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner).
Quantitative main characteristics are:
• The data is usually gathered using structured research instruments.
• The results are based on larger sample sizes that are representative of the population.
• The research study can usually be replicated or repeated, given its high reliability.
• Researcher has a clearly defined research question to which objective answers are sought.
• All aspects of the study are carefully designed before data is collected.
• Data are in the form of numbers and statistics, often arranged in tables, charts, figures, or other non-textual forms.
• Project can be used to generalize concepts more widely, predict future results, or investigate causal relationships.
• Researcher uses tools, such as questionnaires or computer software, to collect numerical data.
• The overarching aim of a quantitative research study is to classify features, count them, and construct statistical models to explain what is observed.
Module- SLP
PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME, AMBULATORY CARE, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, AND MENTAL HEALTH
The overall goal of the Session Long Project in this course is to examine health care delivery in the United States from a personal perspective and provide recommendations for improvements.
For the Module 3 SLP, conduct some preliminary research on a Patient Centered Medical Home, Ambulatory Care, Community Health Centers, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, or Mental Health facility in your state. Create a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including the title or reference slides) covering your selected facility in your state. In your presentation, answer the following:
1. Which populations (e.g., adults, children, or older adults) and what conditions/diseases are targeted?
2. Who are the participating payers?
3. What type of insurance product (e.g., HMO or PPO) do the participating payers include?
4. Who are the participating providers? (List only the type of providers, such as hospitals or community health centers.)
5. How are the participating providers reimbursed?
In your final slides, you are to make recommendations for the future of health care delivery of the facility that you selected. The recommendations are to be vividly supported on scholarly sources.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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