Call Agenda - Thursday, December 9th, 11:00 AM EST

The PCPCC would like to offer you the rewarding opportunity to connect your organization’s name with this educational event and demonstrate your organization’s support for PCPCC and the patient-centered medical home health care delivery model. To learn more, please click here.

We have reserved a limited block of rooms at the Dupont Hotel on Dupont Circle at 1500 New Hampshire Avenue NW. Washington, DC. To secure a Deluxe Room at $239 + tax the evening of March 29, 2011 please contact the hotel at 202.483.6000 or 866.534.6835 between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Friday before March 1, 2011 and mention that you would like to be included at the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative rate.

B.  CeHIA Webinar: Successful IT and PCMH Recognition Implementation

The Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange will host a webinar on Thursday, December 9th, 1:00 - 2:30 PM EST. 

Please join us for a repeat presentation of "Successful IT and PCMH Recognition Implementation". This will be a live webinar and not a playback of the previous roundtable. You will have the opportunity to ask questions of the distinguished panelists, which include John Steidl (moderator), Craig Brammer (ONC), Sean Lyon (Life Long Care, Inc.) and Douglas Arnold (Medical Professional Services, Inc).  There was overwhelming positive feedback for the final roundtable at the October 21 PCPCC Summit in Washington, DC. You may recall that this segment was unceremoniously interrupted by a building fire alarm and many attendees had to leave shortly after to catch flights home. Well, you spoke - and we listened about your recommendations to re-present this panel as a national webinar.  
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C. Health Affairs Conference -- December 16, 2010:  Innovations in Health Care Delivery

Health Affairs, the nation's leading journal on health policy, is convening a day-long conference on "Innovations in Health Care Delivery." The free conference is scheduled for Thursday, December 16, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Ronald Reagan Center for International Trade, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C.

Richard Gilfillan, the acting director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, will keynote the conference. The Center was created under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to "test innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce program expenditures." It now seeks to capitalize on the drive that already exists within the health care system to achieve the so-called Triple Aim -- better health, better health care, and lower costs -- first articulated by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. 

The program will feature 5-6 panels of institutions such as Virginia Mason, ThedaCare, QuadMed, Indiana University's program of Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders, Magee Women's Hospital, Mercy Health System and other hospitals, health plans, and innovative leaders. These institutions all have innovated at the patient care level; in creation of more highly coordinated patient care systems; and at the population level, in terms of improving population health. The case examples will show how the various institutions have innovated by following a multi-step process of:

Identifying patient needs that are not being as well met as they could be; 

Relying on providers close to those patients to identify strategies to better meet needs; 

Implementing necessary changes in pilot programs; and 

Measuring and reporting the results, which must include reductions in expenditures while maintaining or improving quality

The conference is being produced in conjunction with partner organizations including, the American Hospital Association, Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, California HealthCare Foundation, John A. Hartford Foundation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and the SCAN Foundation.

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D. The Collaborative Role of Medication Management in a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) – Impact Edu with the support of educational grants from Abbott and Boehringer Ingelheim, is offering 1.5 hours of free CME/CE's for physicians and 1.7 contact hours for pharmacists and nurses.

Statement of Need/Program Overview

A new strategy that has emerged to focus on care delivery, payment reform, and the use of health information technology that is gaining momentum is the patient-centered medical home (PCMH). Health care professionals in a PCMH setting need instruction and tools to assist with identifying the right patients, coordinating the right care, and monitoring the right follow up, to ensure successful short and long term medication outcomes for patients with chronic illnesses.

Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

•  Define medication management services conducive for a PCMH
•  Identify the collaborative roles and requirements of a PCMH care team that are necessary to successfully integrate medication management services
•  Outline emerging medication management service models and methods used by health care professionals when implementing a PCMH
•  Apply collaborative methods and tools that can assist with a PCMH approach to optimize medication adherence outcomes for chronic illnesses

Faculty include:

S. Nadra Havican, RN, BSPharm, BCPS
 Pharmacy Manager
Family Health Center of Marshfield Clinic, Inc.

Vanita K. Pindolia, PharmD, BCPS
Vice President, Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy Services
Director, Managed Care Residency Program
Henry Ford Health System

Terry A. McInnis, MD, MPH
President, Blue Thorn Inc.

F. NASHP Webinar: New Tactics for Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs

Thursday, December 16, 2010, 2:30-4:30 PM (EST)

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For the past year, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has worked with a group of eight states referred to as the Medical Homes II Consortium (Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia) to develop medical home programs.  This webcast, featuring policymakers from the eight states, will highlight a variety of their achievements in key areas.  New and innovative strategies developed by the states may provide inspiration and guidance to officials in other states.  This event is made possible through the generous support of The Commonwealth Fund.  

G. Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT):  Symposium on the Patient-Centered Medical Home:  Obstacles and Opportunities

On December 2, 2010, the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) sponsored a Health Care Symposium on the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Housed at the University of Michigan, CHRT is a non-profit partnership between U-M and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to test the best ideas for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care system. At this symposium, a panel of experts discussed national and state efforts to adopt the PCMH model - including the recently announced CMS multi-payer demonstration project in Michigan, the role of PCMH in health reform, the experience of the nation’s largest PCMH implementation (led by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan), and new research into PCMH barriers and accelerators that can be applied by practitioners and policy makers alike.

Featured Speakers included:

• Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH, University of California, Associate Professor in Residence, Family and Community Medicine – National overview and role of PCMH in health reform
• David Share, MD, MPH, Senior Associate Medical Director, Health Care; Quality, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan – Profile of BCBSM PCMH implementation
• Jean Malouin, MD, MPH, University of Michigan, Associate Chair for Clinical Programs, Family Medicine – Building a Multi-Payer PCMH Model in Michigan
• Christopher G. Wise, PhD, MHA, Director, Lean for PCMH Collaborative Quality Initiative - Components of change toward PCMH
• Jeffrey A. Alexander, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor, School of Public Health - What we have learned - putting it all together
• Marianne Udow-Phillips, MHSA, Director, Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation - Setting the stage/What’s next

Links to all of these presentations can be found on the CHRT web site at: http://www.chrt.org/events/pcmh-symposium-2010/