Medical Home

Organizational Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health of All Children

The AAP supports universal, secure, and vendor-neutral portability of health information for all patients contained within the medical home across all care settings (ambulatory practices, inpatient settings, emergency departments, pharmacies, consultants, support service providers, and therapists) for multiple purposes including direct care, personal health records, public health, and registries.

This new policy statement contains an expanded and more comprehensive interpretation of the concept and an operational definition of the medical home.

Communication with primary care providers is an important part of ED care; both ensuring continuity of care from the pediatrician's office to the ED and after ED care.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) affirms that the optimal location for children to receive care for acute, nonemergency health concerns is the medical home.

The National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home, a national technical assistance center focused on improving the health and well-being of, and strengthening the system of services for, children and youth with special health care needs and their families by enhancing the patient/family-centered medical home.