Rowan Family Medicine

The PCMH is a healthcare setting that creates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians, and, when appropriate, the patient’s family. A PCMH can be any primary care medical practice, hospital, or clinic that follows a certain set of principles. In February 2007, four primary care societies—American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association—developed these principles, the Joint Principlesfor the PCMH, which are summarized in these points: 

• Ongoing relationship with a personal physican;

• Physician-directed medical practice;

• Whole-person orientation;

• Care is coordinated and/or integrated;

• Quality and safety;

• Enhanced access to care; and

• Payment appropriately recognizes the added value