Promising Practices include practices that are: engaged in a quality improvement process toward becoming a medical home; developing systems and tools designed to assist in the provision of care to CSHCN; and are advocating for CSHCN in their practice, community, and state.

A goal of the Medical Home Mentorship Program is to link practices with similar demographics, geography, state, and community health care systems and resources. Individuals from these practices can provide support to other practices as they work to provide a medical home to CSHCN. Tools created by Promising Practices are made available via the medical home web site on our TOOLS page and or by contacting the National Center.

Getting Started
Get quick tips and tools from physicians, allied health professionals and parents of children with special needs by viewing past questions/responses posted on the Medical Home LISTSERV. Responses are provided by physicians, allied health professionals and parents of children with special needs. Litserv archives can be accessed by clicking here.

For example, if you are a hospital based clinic with an inner-city population and you need information about care coordination, wrap-around services, and funding options, we will send you any available information on different models, tools, and contact information.

We provide information and examples of practices that are rural and urban, hospital based, university based, community based, based on size, demographic and or the quality improvements that they have implemented for their CYSHCN. This can include care coordination models, parent advisory group models, different reimbursement strategies, office organization, etc.

The success of the network relies heavily on the continued efforts of teams to share their strategies, lessons learned, tools and resources with the nation so that together we can achieve better health outcomes for all CSHCN, ensuring that they all have a medical home by 2010. Therefore, we are asking practices, community health centers, and clinics to fill out the Promising Practice Form so that we may maintain information on your practice and share your model and the tools you have developed with other providers.

Promising Practice Form: Microsoft Word

You do not have to be available to connect directly with other providers as a mentor though we do encourage you to do so.

For more information or to be connected with a similar practice model through our medical home mentorship network, you can call 1-800-433-9016, ext. 7621, or send an e-mail to medical_home@aap.org.