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Medical Home Transitions
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Transitioning teenagers and young adults with special health care needs from pediatric to adult care is a stressful process for patients and families, particularly because these patients have such strong linkages to their pediatric physicians and providers. A major element of the transition challenge is that there are not enough family physicians accepting new patients with child-onset special needs. The PAFP Foundation is partnering with the American Academy of Pediatrics-PA Chapter to help improve the adult health care environment for this special population of patients.
Here's how you can help...
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Take our SURVEY |
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Please take a few moments to help us analyze primary care’s capacity to care for young adults with special health care needs. (This is for information gathering purposes only and does not commit you or your practice to accepting patients with SHCN.)
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Transition Survey for Family Practice/Internal Medicine/Med-Peds
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Get HELP |
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We are connecting pediatric and family medicine practices to help patients with special health care needs who are aging out of pediatric care.
If you might consider accepting a new patient, we’ll connect you with a family physician who has experience in treating youth with special health care needs and helping them and their caregivers transition into adult care. You would receive free technical assistance and might be eligible for a stipend to help you make any necessary practice changes.
Talking with AAP-PA or expressing an interest does not mean you are committed to accepting a new patient. Nor does it mean that you would have to open your patient panel to accept any new patient with special health care needs.
We’re trying to find new medical homes for specific patients in specific pediatric practices.
Interested in talking with someone about this opportunity? Please contact the PAFP at medicalhome@pafp.com.
We are looking for family medicine partners for these pediatric practices:
West:
- Pediatric Alliance Arcadia, Pittsburgh
- Pediatric Alliance Chartiers, Bridgeville
- MCMurray Pediatric and Adolescent Care, McMurray
- Ripepi Pediatrics, Monongahela
- General Academic Pediatrics, Pittsburgh
- CCP Pitt, Wexford
Central:
- Wellsboro
- Eden Park, Lancaster
East:
- CHOP Highpoint, Chalfont
- CHOP Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
- Lehigh Valley Children’s Clinic, Allentown
- All About Children, West Reading
- Reading Pediatrics
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LEARN More |
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News:
Tips from the April 11 Medical Home Transition Advisory Committee meeting:
- DPW’s "ops memo" lets MA patients with special health care needs remain with their pediatrician during trial visits with a family physician. You, as the adult provider, bill as a consultant.
- Working with a pediatrician to transition a patient? Ask for a 1-2 page "transition note" and all immunization records.
- Watch the videos at http://www.pealcenter.org/resources/healthcare.html, particularly "Moving from Pediatric to Adult Providers."
- Several family practices are already participating (go, Pittsburgh!), but more practices are needed to partner with pediatric practices.
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