Medical Home Program

Also known as the Utah Collaborative Medical Home Program (UCMHP), the Medical Home Program provides information, tools, and resources to aid primary care physicians in caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) and providing a Medical Home for all of their patients. Support involves information, resources, practice support phone calls, newsletters, and other assistance.

A Medical Home is is not a building, house, or hospital, but rather an approach to providing comprehensive primary care. In a medical home, a primary care (pediatric, family medicine, or internal medicine) clinician works in partnership with the family/patient to assure that all of the medical and non-medical needs of the patient are met.

Through this partnership, the primary care clinician can help the family/patient access and coordinate specialty care, educational services, out-of-home care, family support, and other public and private community services that are important to the overall health of the child/youth and family. (from: medicalhomeinfo.org)

Information on Medical Home Diagnoses, Resources, Transition, and Education issues is available through the Utah Medical Home website http://www.medicalhomeportal.org/.

For more information contact:

Al Romeo RN PhD
Care Coordinator Specialist
(801) 584-8535
alromeo@utah.gov

Gina Pola-Money
CSHCN Family Advocate and Utah Family Voices Director
(801) 584-8236
utahfamilyvoices@juno.com

Programs at CSHCN are partnering to support the "Learn the Signs. Act Early." campaign in an effort to help parents of young children learn about healthy development, track developmental milestones, and act by contacting their medical home when they have concerns about their child's development.

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