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Task Force 1. Identify the core attributes of family practice, reform family practice to meet consumer expectations, and determine systems of care to be delivered by family practice33 Task Force 2. Determine the training needed for family physicians to deliver core attributes and system services34 Task Force 3. Ensure that family physicians deliver core attributes and system services throughout their careers35 Task Force 4. Determine strategies for communicating the role of family physicians within medicine and health care, as well as to purchasers and consumers36 Task Force 5. Determine family practice’s leadership role in shaping the future health care delivery system37 Task Force 6. Report on financing the new model of family medicine38 Give patients the care they need when they are most vulnerable Care for patients regardless of age and health conditions, and work to sustain an enduring and trusting relationship with them Be each patient’s first contact for health concerns. Address all their health concerns, and resolve most of them Help patients with preventing, understanding, and managing illness Navigate the health system with patients, including coordinating with specialists and staying connected with patients before, during, and after time spent in a hospital Set health goals that adapt to each patient’s needs as defined by them With the care team, use data and best science to prioritize and coordinate services most likely to benefit patients’ health Use technology to maintain and enhance access, continuity, and relationships, and to optimize patients’ care and outcomes Provide the right care, at the right time, at the right cost Ensure patients can be seen by their family physician or a member of the care team whenever needed Assist patients with all of their health care needs Coordinate patients’ care across settings; integrate care for acute and chronic illness, mental health and prevention; and guide access to specialist care when needed Organize care within the care team to meet their patients’ needs and provide continuity of care across time Use technology to maintain and enhance access, continuity, and relationships Understand the effects of the community-level factors and social determinants of health on their patients’ well-being, and identify community resources available to meet their health needs Care for patients in the context of their family and the ways in which the health of each family member affects the others Family medicine’s leadership will welcome collaboration with patients, employers, payers, policy makers, other primary care professionals, mental health clinicians, and public health to enhance the value and benefits of primary care, particularly the contribution that family physicians make, in meeting the health and health care needs of people throughout the United States Family medicine will work to ensure that every person in the United States understands the value of and has the opportunity to have a personal relationship with a trusted family physician or other primary care professional in the context of a medical home Family medicine will, in collaboration with primary care partners, be accountable for increasing the value of primary care for the patients served, using specific measures to do the following:
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Lower the total cost of care for the patients served
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Continuously improve the health and quality of care of the patients served
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Continuously improve each patient’s experience of and access to care, emphasizing the patient’s definition of both
Family medicine will collaborate with national stakeholders to reduce health disparities in the United States Family medicine will lead, through ongoing outcomes-based research, the continued evolution of the patient-centered medical home to ensure it is the best way to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care to the patients, families, and the communities served Family medicine will work to ensure that the country has the well-trained primary care workforce it needs for the future through expansion and transformation of training from pipeline through practice To give patients the comprehensive and coordinated care and attention they deserve, family medicine commits to moving primary care reimbursement away from fee-for-service and toward comprehensive primary care payment as quickly as possible in coordination with its primary care colleagues -
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