Medical Home State Data Pages
The Data Resource Center—funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration—partnered with the American Academy of Pediatrics to create this page to allow state and family leaders quick access to data on how children and youth in each state experience receiving care within a medical home. 
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Hover over the blue US map (below left) to see your state’s medical home performance profile for all children or children with special health care needs. Hover over the green US map (below right) to compare across all states or view state ranking maps for medical home data.
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More Medical Home Data: Link to more medical home data for all children (using data from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health) and for CSHCN (using data from the 2005/06 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs).
History of the Medical Home Concept: Sia C, Tonniges TF, Osterhus E, Taba S. History of the Medical Home Concept. Pediatrics. 2004;113:1473-1478.
AAP Policy Statement on Medical Home: American Academy of Pediatrics, Medical Home Initiatives for Children With Special Needs Project Advisory Committee . The medical home. Pediatrics. 2002, reaffirmed 2008; 110:184-187. PDF: 44.8 KB
Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home: The Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home outlines comprehensive primary care for adults, children and families. PDF: 40KB
Measuring Medical Home: This manual compiled by the CAHMI takes a look at the medical home concept and components. The link provides the Medical Home Manual. For a copy of the manual with complete appendices, you can click here. PDF: 768KB; PDF with Appendices: 4.36MB
Compare Medical Home Measurement Models: Compare two popular ways to think about measuring Medical Home: (1) Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) and (2) Measurement using the AAP Definition and the parent/child reported information available on these data pages. PDF: 96KB
Medical Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs - A Review of the Evidence: This issue brief provides an introduction to the medical home concept and highlights important outcomes from interventional and associational studies. This is a collaboration of the MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, NICHQ, and the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, on behalf of the MCHB. PDF: 156 KB
Relevant Articles: Other relevant articles around the medical home concept. PDF: 47.2 KB
State Measurement in National Child Health Surveys: This manual compiled by the CAHMI takes a look at the medical home concept and components in the National Survey of Children's Health and National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. PDF: 768KB
Quantifying the Medical Home Concept: Excerpt from the Medical Home Manual: Read about how the Medical Home Concept is derived. PDF: 616KB
Methodology for Medical Home in the 2007 NSCH: Excerpt from Medical Home Manual: Read about the methodology for Medical Home, including calculation for each subcomponent. PDF: 460KB
Influence of Survey Design on Medical Home Prevalence: Excerpt from Medical Home Manual: Read about how the design of national surveys impacts the prevalence of Medical Home. PDF: 656KB
New Tactics for Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs: The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has worked with a group of eight states to develop medical home programs. This archived webcast highlights a variety of their achievements in the areas of forming partnerships, defining and recognizing medical homes, reforming payment, supporting practices, and measuring progress.
AAP Illinois Chapter: Online Medical Home Training: The American Academy of Pediatrics' Illinois Chapter launched this website to host medical home resources and trainings, including videos from their first medical home learning session.
NICHQ Medical Home Learning Collaborative: The National Institute for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) describes ways in which to increase the prevalence of medical home through the Medical Home Learning Collaborative (MH-LC).
Measuring Medical Homes: Tools to Evaluate the Pediatric Patient and Family-Centered Medical Home: This monograph explores the current tools used in measuring Medical Home. Measurement tools included in the National Survey of Children's Health, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (CAHPS), Components of Primary Care Instrument, Medical Home Index, and several others.
NCQA: Patient-Centered Medical Home: The National Committee for Quality Assurance defines the Medical Home (Patient-Centered Medical Home) in terms of the structure of medical care.
Relevant Articles: Other relevant articles about medical home measurement in states. PDF: 41 KB
"Building Your Medical Home" Toolkit: Brought to you by the AAP/MCHB/National Center for Medical Home Implementation, the Building Your Medical Home Toolkit supports the primary care pediatrician's development and improvement of a pediatric Medical Home. It also prepares a pediatric office to apply for and potentially meet the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections Patient Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) Recognition program requirements.
Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI): This website provides information and resources for children, youth, adults, families, physicians and other health care providers in support of raising children, parenting, caring for oneself or a loved one, and providing comprehensive coordinated primary care. Of particular interest are the Pediatric Medical Home Index and Medical Home Family Index both found on the Measurement Section of the website.
Family Voices Family Centered Care Self-Assessment Tool: Provider Version and User's Guide: Developed by Family Voices, this self assessment tool and User's Guide provide health care settings with a structured tool and suggestions for quality improvement activities and to support development of the first key component of a medical home. This tool can be used to identify ways to increase family satisfaction with the care setting and to increase its standing in the community. See also the Family Voices Family-Centered Self Assessment Tool: For Families.
Role of Federally Qualified Health Centers in State-led Medical Home Collaboratives: This publication by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) looks into the role of health centers in PCMH collaboratives led by each state. PDF: 362 KB
Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs: This publication by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) analyzes building a medical home using the PCMH model in State Medicaid and children's health insurance programs. PDF: 620KB
Strategies States Can Use to Support the Infrastructure of a Medical Home: This briefing by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) examines various strategies states can use to support the PCMH model. PDF: 124 KB
Patient-Centered Primary Care Pilot report on Medical Home: View this report put together by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative that looks at PCMH pilot and demonstration projects. PDF: 3.31 MB
National Partnership for Women & Families Report on Medical Home Projects: The National Partnership for Women and Families has developed a document that charts state's efforts in implementing "medical home" models in their health programs.
Pediatric Medical Homes: Laying the Foundation of a Promising Model of Care: This report by the National Center for Children in Poverty describes the medical home concept and explains how it has been defined, applied to children, and measured. It uses data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health to report on the number and characteristics of American children served by medical homes. It also discusses opportunities to leverage medical homes to improve medical care and achieve better health outcomes for young children, with a particular focus on the coordination of care for vulnerable children. PDF: 612 KB
Medical Home for CSHCN in North Dakota: Download a report produced by the CAHMI for Title V in North Dakota which includes an analysis of medical home. PDF: 57 MB
Implementing the Medical Home Model in Minnesota: A Case Study: Implementing the Medical Home Model in Minnesota is the first in a series of maternal and child health (MCH) case studies designed for classroom use by teachers of public health, MCH, health policy, evaluation, and health education in preparing students to serve as effective change agents working within the framework of Title V at national, state, and community levels. PDF: 59.6 KB
Medical Home and Kansas Children: This report brief from the Kansas Health Institute looks at medical home for children in Kansas. PDF: 86.1 KB
Medical Home for CSHCN in Washington: This Health of Washington State report analyzes medical home in Washington for their chapter on children with special health care needs. PDF: 251 KB
Medical Home for CSHCN in Pennsylvania: Download this packet outlining the structure and progress of the Pennsylvania Medical Home Initiative by Educating Practices in Community Integrated Care.
Family Voices Family Centered Care Self-Assessment Tool: For Families and User's Guide: Family-centered care is a key aspect of quality in health care for children, youth and their families. This tool and User's Guide, developed by Family Voices, can be used by families to assess their own skills and strengths, the care their children and youth receive, and to engage in discussions within health care settings and with policy makers about ways to improve health care services and supports. See also: Family Voices Family-Centered Self Assessment Tool: For Providers. PDF: 117 KB
National Partnership for Women & Families Medical Home Principles: The National Partnership for Women & Families and broad coalition of more than 25 of the nation's leading consumer, labor and health care advocacy groups developed a set of principles designed to help health care providers, lawmakers, employers, and health plans consider consumer interests as they develop delivery system reforms such as the “medical home."
How Consumer Advocates Can Get Involved: Steps You Can Take to Ensure the Medical Home is Patient-Centered: The National Partnership for Women & Families and a broad coalition of more than 25 of the nation's leading consumer, labor and health care advocacy groups developed a set of principles designed to help health care providers, lawmakers, employers, and health plans consider consumer interests as they develop delivery system reforms such as the "medical home." PDF: 119 KB
Practice Performance Measurement: This section in the Medical Home Toolkit features two important tools to help families advocate for family centered care and medical home: Pediatric Medical Home Family Index and the Pediatric Medical Home Family Survey.
Families Partnering with Providers: A 7-page booklet of tips on communicating with a child's health care providers: Preparing For An Office Visit, Talking With Your Child's Provider, Learning More and Helping Your Provider Help Other Families.
Relevant Articles from this Site: View all relevant articles listed on medicalhomedata.org. PDF: 25.8 KB