Other Resources
This collection of resources is not exhaustive. Among the dozens of PCMH efforts and resources available, these are the resources most often recommended by the practice facilitators who helped develop this curriculum. The list is not meant to be an endorsement of any specific tool or program.
Starting a practice facilitation program
A How-To Guide on Developing and Running a Practice Facilitation Program
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a helpful how-to guide for organizations interested in starting a practice facilitation program aimed at improving primary care. It includes an extensive collection of tools and links to help you develop and run a practice facilitation program, including job descriptions.
LA Net's Practice Facilitation program directory
Contains information on coaching programs in many states.
Honing your practice facilitation skills
Coach Medical Home specifically focuses on guiding practices to implement the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative Framework for Practice Transformation. Here are some resources for developing general coaching skills:
Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy Coach-The-Coach
5 month intensive, dynamic and highly interactive experiential learning series blending electronic and face-to-face formats to develop coaching knowledge, skills and abilities.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement Primary Care Practice Coach
An 11-month virtual professional development program & community.
Atul Gawande on coaching. The New Yorker, October 3, 2011 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/03/111003fa_fact_gawande
Peter Block's book Flawless Consulting
Ingrid Bens' guide Facilitation at a Glance
For a helpful perspective on community health centers, check out "Lessons from the Trenches – A High-Functioning Primary Care Clinic" by Thomas Bodenheimer, M.D.
Research on the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Selected published review articles
Development of a Facilitation Curriculum to Support Primary Care Transformation: The "Coach Medical Home" Curriculum
Johnson KE, Coleman K, Phillips KE, Austin BT, Daniel DM, Ridpath J, Schaefer J, Wagner EH. Medical Care. 2014;52(11):S26-32.
Supplement: Transforming Primary Care Practice. Gill JM and Cohen DJ, eds. Ann Fam Med. 2013 May/June; 11(Suppl1).
The patient-centered medical home: a systematic review. Jackson GL, Powers BJ, Chatterjee R, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(3):169-178.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home—Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science. http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/ehc/products/391/1178/EvidReport208_CQGPatientCenteredMedicalHome_FinalReport_20120703.pdf
Early evaluations of the medical home: building on a promising start. Peikes D, Zutshi A, Genevro JL, Parchman ML, Meyers DS. Am J Manag Care. 2012 Feb;18(2):105-16. Review.
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative "Benefits of Implementing the Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Home: Cost and Quality Results, 2012."
Ongoing Research
In light of the large number of medical home pilots and evaluations, the Commonwealth Fund established the Patient-Centered Medical Home Evaluators' Collaborative in 2009 to align evaluation methods to the greatest extent possible, share best practices, and exchange information to improve evaluation designs. The collaborative is comprised of researchers who are engaged in assessing patient-centered medical home (PCMH) demonstrations and are unaffiliated with groups promoting the PCMH.