The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Case Study

We are now in week 4 of our studies and we have looked over chapter 9, which explains the organization of care. We have compared how the health care system worked in the past, while examining the new ideas and concepts, which may be applied to deliver better service. In class we looked at a video about the patient-centered medical home, and what this will bring to the health care field. The patient-centered medical model has a lot of great ideas, it will reduce our problem of fractured, incomplete, or unnecessary care. The way the patient-centered model will achieve this is by bringing in a health care team, which will not only address the patient’s needs, but follow up with them, and monitor any changes they may be experiencing with their condition. This will be a great help to the patient, because they need the care and the education that will be available, to better understand how to help themselves heal, in an integrated and holistic manner (Knickman & Kovner, A., 2015). …show more content…
Primary care physicians are still needed, especially in more rural areas. In order to help the medical community, nurses are being encouraged to gain additional education, to become nurse practitioners. The nurse practitioner can help facilitate the patients’ needs and fill in some of the gaps, while we go through this period of transformation in our health system. Other health care workers will be needed, workers with billing experience, workers who can set up the new technology that will be available to patients. The health care system needs to make sure that the educational programs that are offered line up with the future goals of the hospital or health care facility (Knickman & Kovner, A.,