St. Vincent Charity Medical Home receives national recognition for patient-centered care

12/22/2010

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is proud to announce St. Vincent Charity Medical Center’s Patient-Centered Medical Home has received Recognition from the Physician Practice Connections— Patient Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) program for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long-term participative relationships.

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a promising model of healthcare delivery that aims to improve the quality and efficiency of care. Valid through 2013, this distinction recognizes that St. Vincent Charity Patient-Centered Medical Home demonstrates the ability to meet the program’s key elements embodying characteristics of the medical home.

PPC-PCMH identifies practices that promote partnerships between individual patients and their personal clinicians, instead of treating patient care as the sum of several episodic office visits. Each patient’s care is tended to by clinician-led care teams, who provide for all the patient’s healthcare needs and coordinate treatments across the healthcare system.

“The patient-centered medical home promises to improve health and health care,” said NCQA President Margaret E. O’Kane. “The active, ongoing relationship between a patient and a clinician in medical home fosters an all-toorare goal in care: staying healthy and preventing illness in the first place. PPC-PCMH Recognition shows that St. Vincent Charity Patient-Centered Medical Home has tools, systems and resources to provide its patients with the right care at the right time.”