First championed by the American Academy of Pediatrics
more than 40 years ago, the medical home is a teambased
health care delivery model led by a physician that
provides comprehensive, continuous, and coordinated primary
and preventive medical care to patients (Patient-Centered
Primary Care Collaborative 2012). Following the 2001 release
of the Institute of Medicine’s seminal report Crossing the
Quality Chasm, the patient-centered medical home re-entered
the “health policy lexicon” as a vital strategy to improve health
care quality, control costs, and eliminate disparities (Epstein et
al. 2010).