Patient-centered medical homes: will health care reform provide new options for rural communities and providers? Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Many are calling for the expansion of the patient-centered medical home model into rural and underserved populations as a transformative strategy to address issues of access, efficiency, quality, and sustainability in the delivery of health care. Patient-centered medical homes have been touted as a promising cost-saving model for comprehensive management of persons with chronic diseases and disabilities, but it is unclear how rural practitioners in medically underserved areas will implement the patient-centered medical home. This article examines how the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act of 2010 will enhance rural providers' ability to provide patient-centered care and services contemplated under the Act in a comprehensive, coordinated, cost-effective way despite leaner budgets and health workforce shortages.

published proceedings

  • Fam Community Health

author list (cited authors)

  • Bolin, J. N., Gamm, L., Vest, J. R., Edwardson, N., & Miller, T. R.

citation count

  • 13

publication date

  • April 2011