Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) are often confused as being actual "homes" for patients to be admitted in and given medical treatment and care. PCMH is actually a health care model based on which health care is provided to patients, under the supervision of physicians. The PCMH model of health care provides patients with continuous, comprehensive medical care, in order to increase the chances of achieving the goal of benefitting

Patient-Centered Medical Home Medical Home How the Patient-Centered Medical-Home reducing cost and improving quality and safety for patients. The patient centered medical home is a platform that fills a need in the current healthcare system. The U.S. healthcare system has been plagued for quite some time with a trend of substantially rising healthcare costs as well as another trend of slipping quality standards. These two trends are argued to be a phenomenon that

Patient Outcomes and Sustainable Change: Identifying Leadership Roles for Doctors of Nursing Practice Today, the United States spends more taxpayer monies on healthcare services than virtually any other industrialized country in the world, yet Americans still pay more out-of-pocket expenses and receive fewer physician visits per year compared to nations that spend less. Moreover, the demand for already scarce healthcare services is expected to increase concomitantly with the rapid growth being

Nursing Theory -- a Patient Centered Approach In the opinion of this author and from personal experience, nursing has to be patient centered. It is the author's experience in years of working in the field that someone who stays in the profession inevitably must see nursing as not a job, but rather as a vocation or a calling. One must treat it with a reverence. In this way, the nursing professional

Medical Home Model and Health Disparity Nursing Research Proposal The Impact of the Medical Home Model on Health Disparities The Impact of the Medical Home Model on Healthcare Disparity Medical homes are primary care practices where a physician or NP establishes a long-term care relationship with patients and provide patient/family-centered, coordinated, and culturally-sensitive care (AANP, n.d.; Strickland, Jones, Ghandour, Kogan, & Newacheck, 2011). The benefits include improved healthcare access, quality, and safety. A number

Healthcare Management First Student A healthy population is often associated with a country's economic prosperity. As such, governments have often been in the forefront of supporting the healthcare sector through staffing and funding medical research. Patient safety is a vital component of quality nursing care. It has been shown that hospitals with low nurse staffing levels tend to have higher rates of poor patient outcomes such as shock, urinary tract infections, cardiac