Medical Home
Performance Measure 2: Access to Medical Home
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Children with special health care needs will receive coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home.
Why is this important?
The key to organizing services so families of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) can use them easily is to implement a medical home. A medical home is a source of ongoing routine health care in a community. Ideally, parents and providers work as partners within a medical home to meet the needs of children and families. Care should be taken to initiate CYSHCN into conversations about their treatment while they are still in grade school.
For more information on "Medical Homes" visit the National Center for Medical Home Implementation.