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Featured blog post: Does medical home = medical village = global hospital payments?

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, April 7, 2009

Last week, I attended the spring meeting of the Phoenix Group (a hospitalist private practice model think tank) where I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Terry McGeeney, MD, MBA, speak on the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Dr. McGeeney is CEO of TransforMed and is on the leading edge of redefining and redesigning primary care. He confirmed my suspicions that without reform, the current primary care delivery system will be on life support soon. In addition, the Associated Press reported that only 2% of graduating medical students are considering general internal medicine, according to a Sept. 10, 2008 article. Clearly, reform is needed.

This brings us to the medical home, which you have likely heard about and is extremely interesting, but has fewer implications for the hospitalist. However, Dr. McGeeney also introduced us to the concept of the “medical village,” which has huge implications for hospitalists (and every physician who delivers care inside the hospital). As the name implies, a medical village expands on the concept of a patient’s medical home to include providers outside of the “home” practice (hospitals, specialists, etc.). The medical village will rely on collaborative and coordinated care and shared responsibility: PCP-to-specialist, specialist-to-PCP and specialist-to-specialist. . .Read more of the “Medical village” blog post by Kirk Mathews, MBA, on HospitalistLeadership.com.

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