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2024 Patient’s Medical Home Symposium, Halifax NS
On January 19, 2024, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) welcomed nearly 100 family medicine and primary care leaders to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, for the 2024 Patient’s Medical Home Atlantic Symposium. The event featured presentations and workshops...
Patient and Physician’s Experience in the PMH
The College of Family Physicians of Canada™ has produced the Patient and Physician’s Experience in the Patient’s Medical Home to illustrate the key differences between Patient’s Medical Home (PMH) and non-PMH practices. This document aims to highlight the benefits of...
Best Advice Guide: The Patient’s Medical Neighbourhood
This latest Best Advice guide from the Patient’s Medical Home offers recommendations for building interprofessional networks as part of the Patient’s Medical Neighbourhood. Click here to review the guide and contact us to let us know what you think.
The Patient’s Medical Home – Provincial Report Card 2019
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), in partnership with its provincial Chapters, is pleased to release The Patient’s Medical Home—Provincial Report Card 2019. This report summarizes and grades the development of each of the 10 current PMH pillars in...
Best Advice Guide: Advanced and Meaningful Use of EMRs
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and Canada Health Infoway have partnered to offer family physicians practical guidance about the advanced and meaningful use of electronic medical record (EMR) capabilities in this new guide, since many family practice...
Best Advice Guide on Recovery-Oriented Mental Health and Addiction Care in the Patient’s Medical Home
The Best Advice Guide: Recovery-Oriented Mental Health and Addictions Care in the Patient’s Medical Home provides guidance to family physicians and their teams offering mental health and addiction services using a recovery-oriented approach. Click here to review the...
Communities of Practice in the Patient’s Medical Home
The CFPC’s Best Advice guide Communities of Practice supports one of the pillars in the Patient’s Medical Home (PMH)—the concept of team-based care. This guide focuses on intraprofessional collaboration between family physicians, and provides actionable advice for...
PMH Symposium Summary Report
Advancing the Pillars of the Patient’s Medical Home in Ontario’s Evolving Health System On May 27, 2016, the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP), with the support of The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), sponsored a special symposium on the...
The Patient’s Medical Home: It Takes a Team
One of the pillars of the Patient’s Medical Home model is team-based care. An inter-professional team of health care providers working together for the benefit of the patient. The collaborative environment fostered by the Patient’s Medical Home brings together health...
Chronic Care Management in a Patient’s Medical Home
The CFPC’s Best Advice guide Chronic Care Management in a Patient’s Medical Home, provides actionable advice to family physicians about chronic care management in family practice settings. While this guide applies to all types of family practices, the strategies...
Physician Remuneration in a Patient’s Medical Home
As part of the CFPC’s ongoing advocacy for the Patient’s Medical Home, the Remuneration Best Advice Guide, aims to support family physicians and policy decision makers with information on how a remuneration model can address different community needs, and the outcomes...
New Best Advice Guide on Health Literacy Released
The latest Best Advice Guide on the topic of Health Literacy supports the crucial first pillar in the Patient’s Medical Home (PMH), Patient-Centeredness. This guide explores ways in which family physicians can support their patients understanding of health information...
Going From Paper to Electronic
The shift from paper-based patient records to electronic medical records (EMRs) is now recognized as integral to the evolution of the delivery of care in family medicine. As EMR tools are further developed, new possibilities for their application come to light: for...
PMH MAILING LIST
Subscribe to our new PMH mailing list! The PMH Mailing List is specifically geared towards those who would like to hear more about current PMH initiatives and upcoming PMH related events. We encourage you to sign up yourself and spread the word to your colleagues who...
Striving for Excellence in the Patient’s Medical Home
The Patient’s Medical Home (PMH) model is effective across many different settings. Or so we say. But, …
Looking upstream for better health
The College of Family Physicians of Canada releases a practical guide on how family physicians can improve the social determinants of health.
Centering in on the patients.
"The College of Family Physicians of Canada releases a practical guide on patient-centredness in family practice." The first pillar of the Patient’s Medical Home is patient-centredness. Including the patient as a participant in planning and decision-making is...
From red to green.
On Nov 12, 2014 The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) released a follow-up document to the 2013 Report Card, entitled “From Red to Green. From Stop to Go. Recommended actions to improve home care and child and youth health”. The document provided specific...
Breaking News
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is excited to announce the launch of the Patient’s Medical Home (PMH) website! This website is your source for all information related to the Patient’s Medical Home. Please explore the site and visit often for the...
