Foundation News: Medical Home Initiative

New Feature: What we’re reading at REACH

In our work, we come across a number of news items and reports related to REACH Foundation’s funding priorities and strategic goals. “What we’re reading” is a collection of links to noteworthy articles that have caught our attention.

The Kaiser Family Foundation illustrates in simple graphic form how the individual mandate works under the Affordable Care Act.

A former REACH Foundation Board member has written a blog post on Latinos and health care in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Kansas City Free Health Clinic was recently featured in several area news reports on KCUR and in the Kansas City Star.  KC Free is a REACH grantee and participates in the Foundation’s Medical Home Initiative.

The New York Times has created an interactive map documenting “The Geography of Government Benefits” as part of a recent feature story.

Announcements

Cabot Westside Health and Dental Center, part of St. Luke’s Health System, in December received top-level national designation as a Patient-Centered Medical Home. Cabot is one of eight clinics participating in the REACH Foundation’s Medical Home Initiative, and the second clinic of that group to achieve the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Level III designation, the highest recognition for a medical group. 

The Foundation’s Medical Home Initiative began with four clinics in 2007 and currently involves eight clinics working to implement medical home standards as defined by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). REACH provides access to individualized technical assistance through Qualis Health and its subsidiary, Outlook Associates, to support the clinics’ quality improvement activities.

Read the Cabot Westside Health and Dental Center press release.