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Learn from TransforMED PCMH Experts at IHI's 11th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community March 7-9, 2010 in Washington DC

01/15/2010

IHI's 11th Annual International Summit on Improving Patient Care in the Office Practice and the Community will build on its ten-year history as the meeting place for health care providers to learn cutting-edge improvements for the office practice and outpatient settings. On March 7-9, 2010, in Washington, DC, the Summit will bring together revolutionary thinkers and innovative practitioners who are launching a new era in the scope and ambition of local care delivery. This event will fill you and your team with the energy, optimism, ideas, and practice solutions necessary to successfully manage your 2010 quality improvement agenda.

Join TransforMED for a pre-conference PCMH workshop at this world-class conference featuring the best ideas and faculty on areas that are ripe for improvement within the office practice and community-based care settings.

Learn from TransforMED's PCMH experts by attending Building A Medical Home: Foundation to Finish — an interactive, full-day pre-conference minicourse on Sunday, March 7, 2010, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, presented by Elaine Skoch, RN, MN, EMBA, CNAA, BC, Performance Improvement and Education Facilitator, TransforMED; Lachelle Phinney, MBA, Practice Enhancement Facilitator, TransforMED; Kathy Steen, BSN, Practice Enhancement Facilitator, TransforMED.

Building A Medical Home: Foundation to Finish

The foundation for a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a set of complex and interrelated processes that creates a system for delivering comprehensive healthcare in a continuous and personal partnership. This offering will assist the participant in creating create a vision for the PCMH in your practice, establish a "current state" of PCMH element implementation, create a strategy for further integration of PCMH components, and address the "how" of engaging patients in the healthcare partnership.

1. Create a "patient-centered" vision for the practice
2. Develop an understanding of the practices current status medical home element implementation.
3. Formulate a plan for involving all practice members in developing and implementing the medical home elements within the practice.
4. Identify approaches for engaging patients in the “Patient Centered Medical Home” healthcare partnership.

Find out more and enroll for the conference and the pre-conference minicourse at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Web site »

Enroll by January 29 and SAVE $100!

About TransforMED

The Leawood, Kan.-based TransforMED LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Established in 2005, TransforMED provides ongoing consultation and support to physicians looking to transform their practices to a new model of care that is based on the concept of a patient-centered medical home. TransforMED is an active member of primary care communities and recognizes and supports the unique value that primary care offers to patients and the health care system. TransforMED shares and supports the idealism and altruism of primary care physicians and the strong commitment to their communities and patients through continuing patient relationships and independent decision making. TransforMED offers practices both products and services, including consultation and advice on implementing the patient centered medical home model. To learn more about TransforMED, visit www.transformed.com.