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NJ PCORE
3836 Quakerbridge Road
Suite 106
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Phone: 609-588-9988
Fax: 609-588-9901
Fran Gallagher, MEd
Executive Director
fgallagher@aapnj.org
Harriet Lazarus
Associate Director of Programs
hlazarus@aapnj.org
Steven Kairys, MD, MPH, FAAP
Chair / Medical Director
Jeanne Craft, MD, FAAP
Vice Chair
Michael Segarra, MD, FAAP
Treasurer
Dahlia Hall, MD, MPH, FAAP
Secretary
Medical Home
Medical Home Program - Every child deserves a medical home!
The patient-centered medical home is an approach for providing comprehensive primary care for all children, especially children with special health care needs. Pediatric and family practices are challenged to look at the gap between how they would like care to be and how it actually is, and to design ways to improve the quality of care for all children. Providing a medical home means offering care that is accessible, family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective (AAP, Policy Statement, July 2002). To parents, a medical home is a place and process where they know care for their child is centralized, coordinated, monitored, and where they are partners with the health care team in their child’s care. This team approach to medical home improvement serves as the basis for NJ PCORE’s Medical Home Program.
The Medical Home program provides an opportunity for pediatric/family practices located in NJ to gain an understanding of how to strengthen their patient centered medical homes. All participating pediatric/family practices will create “Practice Teams” consisting of a Practice Champion, a Service Coordinator and a Parent/Family Representative.
Benefits for the participating sites include:
- On-Site Orientation visit from the Medical Home Resource Team
- Participation in 3 Medical Home Learning Sessions with Nationally Recognized Speakers
- Technical Assistance provided by the Medical Home Resource Team comprised of an MD Champion, PCORE Quality Improvement (QI) Facilitator, a representative from the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN), and other community resource representatives
- Additional technical assistance to align the Practice with NCQA Level 1 Medical Home Standards
- Self-assessments (Medical Home Indices {Provider and Family Versions}, Pre and Post Intervention Evaluations), external program evaluation
- Hot Topic Conference calls for Provider Teams and Parent Partners
- Links to Community Resources and other PCORE Quality Improvement Programs (e.g. Early Identification of Autism; Immunization Initiative)
- Networking opportunities between practices and team building within the practice
- Identification of 1-3 areas for improvement within the practice as a result of attending the Medical Home Forum and completing the Medical Home indices
- Using PDSA cycles (Plan, Do, Study, Act) to achieve the desired quality improvement outcomes in a slow, sequential, and sustainable manner
Medical Home Practices
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Essex County Practices
Neighborhood Health Services Corporation - Plainfield
1700 Myrtle Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07063
908-753-6401 x1902
Neighborhood Health Services Corporation - Elizabeth
250 Second Street Elizabeth, NJ 07206
908-355-4459
Universal Pediatrics (Nkem Nnaeto, MD)
132 Halsted Street, East Orange, NJ
973-674-0036
Pediatric Health Center @CHONJ (Nwando Anyaoku, MD)
166 Lyons Avenue, Newark, NJ
973-926-3533
North Hudson Community Action Corporation (Dr. Eastmond)
5301 Broadway, West New York, NJ
201-866-9320 ext. 110 or 224
Dr. Eastmond's Cell - 551-208-1770
North Hudson Community Action Corporation - Passaic 110
110 Main Avenue, Passaic, NJ
973-777-5875
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Middlesex County Practices
Mid Jersey Pediatrics
33 Brunswick Woods Drive, East Brunswick, NJ 08816
732-257-4330
University Medical Group Pediatrics (Alan Weller, MD; Emanuel Lerner, MD)
One Worlds Fair Drive Somerset, NJ 08873
Dr. Lerner - 732-743-5437
Dr. Weller - 917-309-0919
New Brunswick Pediatrics (Deborah Chen, MD; Elizabeth Henry, MD)
1300 How Lane North Brunswick, NJ 08902
732-247-1510
St. John's Family Health Center (Siraide Filipe-Izaguirre)
24 Abeel Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-745-9800
St. Peter's Family Health Center
123 How Lane New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-745-8600 ext 6213
Jewish Renaissance Medical Center (Dinorah Calderone, MD)
275 Hobart Street Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
732-376-6605/6607
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Southern Practices
Gloucester County Pediatrics (Dr. Pierre Coant, MD)
849 Cooper Street, Deptford, NJ 08096
Advocare Haddonfield Pediatric Association (Dr. Kevin King, MD)
l 220 Haddon Avenue, Haddonfield, NJ 08033
856-782-3330 Ext 1895
856-701-7093 - Cell
Advocare Haddon Pediatric Group - Haddon Heights (Dr. Stephanie Schlitt, MD)
119 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights, NJ 08035
Advocare Haddon Pediatric Group - Mullica Hill (Dr. Mark Schlitt, MD)
2 Burton Lane, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062
Advocare Marlton (Dr. Edward Rosof, MD & Ann Porter, RN)
525 Route 73 South, Suite 102 Marlton, NJ 08053
Advocare West Deptford Pediatrics (Dr. Tony Mishik, MD & Dr. Angela Knestaut)
646 Kings Highway, West Deptford, NJ 08096
Dr. Mishik - 609-617-5215
Cooper Family Medicine - Cramer Hill Office (Dr. Adaliz Rivera)
3156 River Road, Camden, NJ 08105
856-963-0126
Cooper Family Medicine - Leap Academy (Dr. Marie E. Louis)
639 Cooper Street, B-12, Camden, NJ 08102
Cooper Family Medicine - Sewell Office (Dr. John Robertson & Dr. Danielle Nordone)
123 Egg Harbor Road, Suite 604, Sewell, NJ 08080
Advocare Atrium Pediatrics (Benjamin Rosenblum, MD)
301 Old Marlton Pike, Marlton, NJ 08053
Advocare Merchantville Pediatrics (Bruce Gooberman)
One S. Centre Street, Suite 100, Merchantville, NJ 08109
856-665-7337
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Hunterdon, Sussex, Warren, Morris & Somerset Counties Practices
Advocare Vernon Pediatrics
249 Route 94 Vernon, NJ 07821
973-827-4550
Hunterdon Family Practice
1100 Wescott Drive; Suite 101, Flemington, NJ 08822
908-788-6535
Neighborhood Health Services - Phillipsburg
427-429 South Main Street Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
908-454-4600
Apollo Medical Group - Warren
27 Mountain Boulevard, Suite 1
Warren, NJ 07059
908-753-2662
Bound Brook PEdiatrics
27 West Union Avenue, Bound Brook, NJ 08805
732-356-3737
Watchung Pediatrics
76 Stirling Road, Warren, NJ 07059
908-755-5437
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State and National Medical Home News
Pediatricians, parents must work together for the best health of children
Back in the day when doctors made house calls -- yes, they actually did that -- a sick child was examined, diagnosed and the physician prescribed a treatment.
Do this, take that. No questions asked.
Oh, how times have changed.
"Back then doctors were gods," says Dr. Florence Rosen from her office at Advocare Cherry Hill Pediatrics.
"Today parents just don't accept what the doctor says. Especially with the Internet, parents are much better read and much more aware. So they've got more questions."
As such, relationships between parents and doctors have become more open and more friendly over the years, doctors say, proving what studies have shown -- that children do better when parents and child care providers are on the same page.
A 2004 report from the Johns Hopkins Children Center cited that the medical community recognizes that "the clinician-parent relationship is the centerpiece of primary care (for children)."
"It's what we call "family-centered medical therapy,' " says Dr. Ben Rosenblum, a practitioner at Advocare's Atrium Pediatrics in Marlton.
"It used to be, "Yes, doctor, no, doctor' for the parents. But we encourage having the family participate. We want to discuss with the parents the various issues and options regarding their children."
Rosenblum says Atrium offers prenatal interviews for prospective parents.
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Duke AHEC Program Launches Polyglot Med Spanish iPhone App
The Duke Area Health Education Center has launched a new tool to bridge the communication gap between health care providers and Spanish-speaking patients. Polyglot Med Spanish, now available on iTunes for free download, is a simple-to-use app that offers immediate audio translation of more than 3,000 common words, phrases and assessment questions from English to Spanish and Spanish to English.
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NASHP and The Commonwealth Fund are pleased to announce the release of a new report...
NASHP and The Commonwealth Fund are pleased to announce the release of a new report, Leading the Way: State Innovations in Primary and Chronic Care Delivery. Drawing on case studies from Colorado, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, the report details how states can help small practices offer more efficient and effective care, and become medical homes. To read the report, please visit: http://www.nashp.org/state-innovations-transform-link-small-practices
An archived version of last week’s webcast, “New Tactics for Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs,” is now available online at http://www.nashp.org/webinars/new-tactics-building-medical-homes-state-medicaid-CHIP-programs. Speakers’ slides are also available at that site.
Melinda Abrams of The Commonwealth Fund referenced a new issue brief from the PCPCC during last week’s webcast. That brief, entitled “Outcomes of Implementing Patient Centered Medical Home Interventions:
A Review of the Evidence from Prospective Evaluation Studies in the United States” is available online at:
http://www.pcpcc.net/files/evidence_outcomes_in_pcmh.pdf
Outcomes of Implementing Patient Centered Medical Home Intervention
A Review of the Evidence from Prospective Evaluation Studies in the United States.
Abundant research comparing nations, states and regions within the US, and specific systems of care has shown that health systems built on a solid foundation of primary care deliver more effective, efficient and equitable care than do systems that fail to invest adequately in primary care.1,2 However, some policy analysts have questioned whether these largely cross-sectional, observational studies are adequate for making inferences about whether implementing major policy interventions to strengthen primary care as part of health reform would in the relatively short term “bend the cost curve” at the same time as improving quality of care and patient outcomes.
Pediatric Medical Home Cuts ED Visits by 55%
Visits to a hospital emergency department were cut by 55% when a medical home model was used to coordinate care for chronically ill children, study data showed. The model used by the University of California, Los Angeles, conformed to AAP guidelines and featured a one-hour intake appointment and 40-minute follow-up visits, a bilingual liaison for families, and a binder to help families store their child's medical records in a single place.
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Pfizer MAINTAIN Program Extended through 2010
MAINTAIN is a patience assistance program that can help eligible people in financial need continue to get their Pfizer medicines if they are unemployed and do not have prescription coverage. The MAINTAIN program has been extended through December 2010.
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Statewide Programs Empower Families to Meet Special Healthcare Needs
Each month, Family Voices- New Jersey, an advocacy and support service for families with children who have special healthcare needs, receives about 2,000 calls and e-mails for assistance in navigating the healthcare and insurance system and other support.
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Medical Homes @ Work E-Newsletter
An E-newsletter dedicated to providing medical home information and resources for children with special needs from National AAP.
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Improving Access to Pediatric Specialty Care- NJ Children on Medicaid
Access to care for New Jersey's children with Medicaid is a major battle because nationally low reimbursement rates for pediatric specialists have caused the specialists to either ration services or totally refuse to provide care. This issue of access has been a problem for many years but has recently been exacerbated by rising malpractice rates and cost of living while Medicaid reimbursement rates remain low.
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Pediatric Medical Homes Improve Level of Care
Pediatric medical homes significantly improve the level and coordination of care, according to results of a three-year survey of 10 practices in New Hampshire and Vermont. Parents participating in the survey said their children had fewer hospitalizations and school absences. Parents also were more likely to have a written health care plan when their child had a medical home to coordinate care.
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