The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently announced West Hawaii Community Health Center has received recognition as a Patient-Centered Medical Home 2011 program for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long-term participative relationships.
The patient-centered medical home is a model of care that promotes partnership among practitioners, patients, and their families and ensures that decisions respect patients’ wants, needs, and preferences.
Patients are provided the support and education that help them make decisions and participate in their own care.
Each patient is supported by a health care team who addresses the patient’s health care needs and coordinates and facilitates their treatments across the health care system.
Research shows that medical homes can lead to higher quality and lower costs and improve patients’ and providers’ reported experiences of care.