National Center Journal Club #6: "There Is No “I” in Teamwork in the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Defining Teamwork Competencies for Academic Practice
Teamwork is essential for the safe, reliable delivery of health care, but creating health care teams that function effectively in patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) remains challenging.
In this webinar, Dr. Emily Leasure and Dr. M. Nawal Lutfiyya discussed the challenges of building health care teams that operate well in a PCMH environment.
Collaborative Change Leadership: A Certificate Program for Healthcare and Health Education Leaders
The Collaborative Change Leadership (CCL) Program is an accredited, certificate program offered by the University Health Network (UHN) in collaboration with the University of Toronto (UofT) Centre for Interprofessional Education (IPE).
A Roadmap for Patient & Family Engagement in Healthcare
Patient and family engagement is a growing topic in healthcare as we look for ways to improve population health, provide better experience of care and lower healthcare costs. In recognition of the importance of patient and family engagement, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded the American Institutes for Research to develop a roadmap for practice and research. This roadmap is a call to action for anyone interested in advancing work related to patient and family engagement. It includes:
Primary Care Team Guide: "Improving Primary Care: A Guide to Better Care Through Teamwork"
All across the U.S., practices are trying to transform themselves to improve the quality of their care, become patient-centered medical homes, and qualify for new payment opportunities. The Primary Care Team Guide, developed by staff at the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, offers practical advice, close to 300 resources and models to help leaders and staff engaged in or considering practice transformation build more effective care teams and deploy them to optimize patient care.