Feedback Discussion Board 13: Patient-Centered Medical Home and Team-Based Healthcare

Feedback Discussion Board 13

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Discussion Board 13

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Patient-Centered Medical Home: Benefits for Patients and Healthcare Providers

Hello Katherine! Thank you for your post on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), which is not a place per se but a collaboration of the primary care providers to provide a patient-focused healthcare (pcpcc.org, n.d.). The concept of PCMH is indeed a welcoming step to provide optimum patient care to the patients as it primarily focuses on the patient well-being as well as it is led by a team-based collaboration. On one hand, the patients experience quality care as the entire multidisciplinary team is focused on providing patients with preventative healthcare, patient participation and their education (Agency for the Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.), the healthcare providers are also benefitted at the same time as it decreases a collaborative effort to decrease clinicians’ burnout (Alidina et al., 2014). Additionally, it streamlines processes as well as standardizes procedures to provide the staff with cost-effective and efficient tools to ensure success of the organization (National Committee for Quality Assurance, 2021). Thus, Patient-Centered Medical Home is an efficient model for both the healthcare providers and the patients. 

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Agency for the Healthcare Research and Quality. (n.d.). Defining the PCMH.  https://pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/defining-pcmh. https://pcmh.ahrq.gov/page/defining-pcmh

Alidina, S., Rosenthal, M. B., Schneider, E. C., Singer, S. J., & Friedberg, M. W. (2014).  Practice environments and job satisfaction in patient-centered medical homes. The  Annals of Family Medicine, 12(4), 331–337. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1662

National Committee for Quality Assurance. (2021, April 16). PCMH benefits to practices,  clinicians and patients. NCQA. https://www.ncqa.org/programs/health-care-providers- practices/patient-centered-medical-home-pcmh/benefits-support/benefits/

Pcpcc.org (n.d.) Defining the Medical Home. [online]. Available at  https://www.pcpcc.org/about/medical-home

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Team-Based Healthcare and the Role of APRNs

Hello Desirae, Thank you for your write-up. I agree with you that the team-based healthcare model is beneficial for both the patients as well as the healthcare professionals in the sense that it not only amplifies the effort of the clinicians but also enhances patient’s well-being. The team-led healthcare providers work in synchrony towards the same goal of the well-being of the patient (Smith et al., 2018). Not only does it provide staff with cost-effective, and efficient, working model but also ensures patients with the quality care that they ought to get (Smith et al., 2018). APRNs can definitely promote this model by enhancing their participation in the political, social and professional decision-making (Mason et al., 2021). Thus, it is a model which is profitable, reduces clinicians’ burn-out and is focused on patient care by enhancing their well-being. 

References

Mason, D.J., Dickson, E., McLemore, M.R., & Perez, G.A. (2021). Policy & Politics in nursing  and health care (8th ed.). Elsevier.

Smith, C., Balatbat, C., Corbridge, S., Dopp, A. L., Fried, J., Harter, R., Landefeld, S., Martin,  C., Opelka, F., Sandy, L., Sato, L., & Sinsky, C. (2018). Implementing optimal team- based care to reduce clinician burnout. National Academy of Medicine NAM  Perspectives