The three committees in the House of Representatives with jurisdiction on health care (Education and Labor, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce) have issued a combined “Tri-committee” discussion draft on proposed health care reform legislation. A critical and innovative component of this draft is a pilot program for the “Community-Based Medical Home” (Sec. 1302. [...]
What could HQP or other community-based health care extension services (CBHES) do to support preparedness in case of a new (old-fashioned infectious disease type) epidemic – like swine flu? Besides their role in helping manage the epidemic of chronic illnesses in our communities, well organized CBHES’s (like HQP) could also play an important role in [...]
The community-based health care extension service (CBHES) is an important emerging idea. It offers a conceptual framework for how resources might be better organized to coordinate care for patients, especially those with chronic conditions. The four functional capabilities of a CBHES as proposed by leaders at AHRQ in a recent editorial in the Annals of [...]
