Medical Home
About | Medical Home Initiatives | For Providers | For Youth & Families
A medical home is an approach to providing primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. In a medical home, the primary care team develops a trusting relationship with the family and works as a partner to assure that all of the child’s needs are met.
Through its medical home initiatives, ICAAP works with individual physicians, primary care practices, and community and state agencies to support the dissemination and implementation of the medical home model, with a focus on improving services for children with special health care needs. ICAAP’s medical home programs are supported through grants from the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Chicago Community Trust, and the Michael Reese Health Trust.
Illinois Medical Home News
Illinois Medical Home Newsletter, 4th Edition, June 2010(1.5 mb .pdf)
Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children Program Learning Session 1 Videos Available (Flash Player required) (May, 2010)
BCMHP Learning Session a Huge Success (May, 2010)
ICAAP Invites Primary Care Practices to Join New Program: Building Community-Based Medical Homes for Children (June, 2009)
Illinois Medical Home Project Newsletter Third Edition March 2009 (March, 2009)
Keep up to date with Illinois medical home news, events, resources, and more. The ICAAP Medical Home Content Archive, available here, is a continously updated log of medical home posts.
About Medical Home
A medical home is defined as primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. Learn more about the medical home concept and the evidence to support this model of care. [...more]
Medical Home Initiatives
Read more about ICAAP’s medical home initiatives and learn how to participate in our programs. [more]
For Providers
Visit this page for information, tools, links, and trainings to help primary care practices build a medical home. [...more]
For Youth and Families
Content is forthcoming
Illinois Provider Directory for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Special Health Care Needs
The Illinois Provider Directory for Children, Youth and Young Adults with Special Health Care Needs is a free online resource that connects individuals with special health care needs with skilled health care providers. Search for providers or sign up to be listed in the directory by visiting www.illinoisproviderdirectory.com.
For more information about ICAAP’s medical home initiatives, please contact:
Kathy Sanabria, MBA, PMP
Senior Director, Medical Home Initiatives
Illinois Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
1400 W Hubbard, Suite 100
Chicago, IL 60642
Phone: 312/733-1026 ext 208
Fax: 312/733-1791
ksanabria@illinoisaap.com
