274810 Opportunities for Health Educators in the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Cezanne Garcia, MPH , Independent Strategy Consultant, Seattle, WA
The role of patient care teams in chronic disease management is not a new concept. Yet, with the rising financial and societal costs related to chronic disease and passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has now become an integral part of the U.S. restructuring of health care financing and delivery. PCMH is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care across the life span by facilitating partnerships between patients, their personal physicians, and when appropriate, the patient's family or significant others. Working under the primary care physician, a multidisciplinary health care team collaborates to address the patient's needs. This presentation will address the role that health educators can play in the PCMH, and how health educators must market their knowledge, skills and training to be included in the multidisciplinary team. It will also address other opportunities presented by the changing health care landscape in which health educators can contribute their knowledge and skills, e.g. quality improvement.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Define the patient centered medical home and its core principles. Identify at least three roles that health educators can play as part of the multidisciplinary team involved in the patient-centered medical home. Summarize challenges for optimizing health educators’ involvement in the patient-centered medical home model Discuss opportunities to apply health educator’s knowledge and skills in other areas of healthcare quality improvement.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have provided training and technical assistance to over 50 diverse health systems around the world, focusing on building the capacity of staff, clinicians, and administrative leaders to partner with patients and families to improve the experience of care and enhance quality and safety. I currently works with health care leadership teams to enhance care transition management, quality, safety, and efficiency, and accelerating return on engagement of patient and family centered practices.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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