In the absence of broad federal health care reform, interest has grown in local solutions to the problem of providing health care to the uninsured. Community-based donated medical care models have emerged as one alternative. The authors examine the early experience of a donated care program in...

This report examines the role of the primary care medical home in Healthy San Francisco, a health care access program for uninsured adults in the city and county of San Francisco. The program’s medical home requirement—and its associated referral system—appear to have...

This brief describes the importance of different care coordination activities in improving patient outcomes. It also explores ways that the patient-centered medical home and accountable care organizations can coordinate care.

Working with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and LA Net, we developed a manual on creating and implementing successful practice implementation programs. This guide provides information on how to start and run a program to work with primary care practices on quality improvement,...