NCQA confers PCMH status

After working diligently for over a year, we submitted our full application to the National Committee for Quality Assurance this fall and received certification as Patient Centered Medical Homes for both of our offices, Grace Family Medicine and Joy Family Medicine. This is not only an honor but an indication of our ongoing commitment to high quality patient care.

NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is an innovative program for improving primary care. In a set of standards that describe clear and specific criteria, the program gives practices information about organizing care around patients, working in teams and coordinating and tracking care over time. The NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home standards strengthen and add to the issues addressed by NCQA’s original program.

The Patient Centered Medical Home is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient’s family. Care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.

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