Regional Work

There are many efforts underway in the region to provide low income and uninsured residents with primary care medical homes.

For example –

  • In the District of Columbia, DCPCA launched Medical Homes DC, to expand safety net health care services for DC residents with a focus on improving quality care and increasing efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The DC Medical Homes Initiative is a public-private partnership that includes the DC Government and health philanthropy.  Over $50 million has been invested to build the capacity of the area’s primary care clinics by providing support for capital projects that replace aging facilities and bring new facilities to underserved areas, build health information technology/electronic medical records to improve care management and coordination, and fund other quality improvement programs.
  • In Montgomery County, Maryland, the Primary Care Coalition works with public/private partners to provide high-quality, accessible, equitable, efficient, and outcome-driven health care services for low-income, uninsured County residents. It administers Montgomery Cares, a county-funded public/private partnership that supports a network of community-based clinics, (Community HealthLink Clinics) that provide a primary care medical home to the county’s low income uninsured adults. PCC also administers the county’s Care for Kids which provides health care to uninsured low-income children up to age 19 who are not eligible for other state or federal health programs. PCC’s Centers for Health Care Access, Medicine Access, Health Improvement, and Community-based Informatics work to support comprehensive, quality, and patient-centered medical homes.

  • In Northern Virginia, the leading primary care safety net providers in the areas 5 health district formed the Northern Virginia Health Services Coalition to work together to provide a continuum of high quality, culturally appropriate health care services for low-income people in Northern Virginia.  They meet regularly to share promising practices and approaches they are taking to providing medical homes to their clients.

  • In Prince Georges County, Maryland there is no county-wide primary care coalition like there is in DC, Montgomery County or Northern Virginia. The county has an acknowledged shortage of primary care. Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc., the only Federally Qualified Health Center in the county, serves as a medical home for its clients. The Health Action Forum of Prince George’s County seeks to bring the voice of the consumer the public health policy with a mission to work towards the elimination of health disparities and 100% access to health care.