A medical home is a trusting partnership between you, your child, and your pediatric primary health care team. A medical home means that your health care team:
- Knows your child’s health history
- Listens to your concerns and needs (as well as your child’s)
- Treats your child with compassion
- Has an understanding of their strengths
- Develops a care plan with you and your child when needed
- Respects and honors your culture and traditions
Your health care team can help you and your child access and coordinate specialty care, other health care and educational services, in and out of home care, family support, and other public/private community services that are important to the overall well-being of you and your child.
To help you better understand the medical home concept, please visit one of these resources:
- Well-Visit Planner-A great tool for your next visit with your child’s physician ! In about 10 minutes or less you can get a personalized, printable Well-Visit Guide that you can present to your physician. The guide helps you remember the important issues you want to talk to your physician about and they can keep a copy in their file to do a check-in with you at your next visit.
- Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin Wisconsin Medical Home Dedicated to promoting the concepts of medical home for primary care clinicians, families and service providers throughout Wisconsin. Their website focuses on Developmental Screening and Care Coordination.
- The National Center for Medical Home Implementation An excellent web resource for health professionals and families.
- Family/Professional Partnerships
The goal Family/Professional Partnership is to help ensure families of children/youth with special health care needs partner at all levels of health care decision-making.
- Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care
The Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care provides essential leadership to advance the understanding and practice of patient- and family-centered care in all settings where individuals and families receive health care.
- National Center for Cultural Competence
Increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
- Patient Engagement in Redesigning Care Toolkit
Intended for use by hospital and clinic directors, managers, clinicians and researchers, this resource contains tools to strengthen the role of patients in teams designing health care delivery and quality improvements. - Center for Patient Partnerships University of Wisconsin-Madison
Please ask your child’s doctor or contact the Children’s Resource Center-South at 800-532-3321 or crcsouth@waisman.wisc.edu if you have any questions about medical home or are unsure which doctor or health system is your child’s medical home.