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A Program Evaluation To Assess Readiness For The National Committee For Quality Assurance’S Patient Centered Medical Home Model Application, Alida M. Semrinec
A Program Evaluation To Assess Readiness For The National Committee For Quality Assurance’S Patient Centered Medical Home Model Application, Alida M. Semrinec
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The Patient Centered Medical Home Model is associated with enhanced patient experience and quality improvement outcomes. The Model has the capacity to guide primary care practices to enhance quality, provide more comprehensive, patient centered care, and increase practice revenue. An urban, nurse managed community health center that has recently implemented the nurse care manager role (a Model requirement) desires to apply for recognition. A program evaluation was conducted to assess current practice, policies, and procedures in place at a Community Health Center through the lens of the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s forty Patient Centered Medical Home Model core competencies. …
Evaluation Of The Integration Of Behavioral Health Services Into Primary Care, David B. Vander Ark
Evaluation Of The Integration Of Behavioral Health Services Into Primary Care, David B. Vander Ark
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Background: Primary care providers are increasingly challenged with managing individuals with behavioral health needs. Evidence suggests that integrating behavioral health services into primary care can improve individual health outcomes and can improve access to behavioral health services.
Objectives: The purpose of this project is to evaluate key outcomes following the evidencebased integration of behavioral health services into a primary care practice.
Methods: Using the Collaborative Practice Model as the implementation model, the behavioral health leadership team added a licensed social worker to a primary care practice on a pilot basis. The social worker offers short-term solution-focused therapy, focusing on depression …
Developing Lactation Support In A Primary Care Pediatric Office, Charlotte Minnema
Developing Lactation Support In A Primary Care Pediatric Office, Charlotte Minnema
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Background: Breast milk is known to be the best nutrition for infants, and experts recommend to exclusively breastfeed through the first six months of life and provide breastmilk through at least the first year of a child’s life (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2012). The United States is currently not achieving its breastfeeding goals set out in Healthy People 2020 by the US Department of Health and Human Services (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). The integration of Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) into primary care pediatrics offices has been shown to increase all breastfeeding rates (Witt, Smith, Mason, …
Adult Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Quality Improvement Project, Danielle Miller
Adult Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Quality Improvement Project, Danielle Miller
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Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) vary widely in their symptom presentation and functional deficits, which can make management in the primary care setting challenging for providers (Morstedt, Corbisiero, Bitto, & Stieglitz, 2015). Measurement-based care is common in the management of medical disease, however is rarely used as standard practice in treatment of psychiatric disorders (Waldrop & McGuinness, 2017). As a result, treatment for psychiatric conditions, such as ADHD, may vary widely among clinicians and may result suboptimal treatment and patient outcomes (Waldrop & McGuinness, 2017). The proposed solution was to introduce the use of a standardized measurement tool …