COPC Sites Earn PCMH Designation

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sept. 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Eight Central Ohio Primary Care practices recently achieved national recognition for their designation as a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) (http://copcp.com/about--contact/patient-centered-medical-home/patient-centered-medical-home-pcmh).

These sites include: Amy R. Kelley, MD (http://copcp.com/amy-r-kelley-m-d-/practice-overview/practice-overview); COPC Chen & Associates (http://copcp.com/copc-chen-associates/practice-overview/practice-overview); COPC Westerville (http://copcp.com/copc-westerville/practice-overview/practice-overview); Family Physicians of Gahanna (http://copcp.com/family-physicians-of-gahanna/practice-overview/practice-overview); J. William Wulf, MD (http://copcp.com/j-william-wulf-m-d-/practice-overview/practice-overview); Jasonway Internal Medicine (http://copcp.com/jasonway-internal-medicine/practice-overview/practice-overview); McConnell Family Practice and Worthington Internal Medicine (http://copcp.com/westerville-internal-medicine/practice-o...).

The PCMH model is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, adolescents, and adults. It is a health care setting that facilitates partnerships between patients and their personal physicians.

Critical principles within the PCMH model include:

Access to a personal physician who leads the care team within a medical practice.
A whole-person orientation to providing patient care.
Integrated and coordinated care.
Focus on quality and safety.

Through the medical home model, practices seek to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of the care they deliver, and to ensure that the activities within the practice are focused on meeting patient needs first. The PCMH model seeks to foster a relationship of trust between the care team and the patient, and to actively engage patients as partners in their health care.

Central Ohio Primary Care started its commitment to achieve recognition for all Internal Medicine, Family Practice and Pediatric sites in 2010. It is our goal as an organization to achieve this process by April 2014. The first four COPC practices to achieve PCMH recognition were Central Ohio Medicine (http://copcp.com/central-ohio-medicine/practice-overview/...), Marysville Primary Care (http://copcp.com/marysville-primary-care/practice-overvie...), Northwest Family Physicians (http://copcp.com/northwest-family-physicians/practice-overview/practice-overview) and Riverside Pediatric Associates (http://copcp.com/riverside-pediatric-associates/practice-overview/practice-overview).