Does a clinic need to be offering patient-centered medical home and team care to be an externship organization?

Does a clinic need to be offering patient-centered medical home and team care to be an externship organization?

Externship organizations need to be committed to, and already moving towards, person-centered, team-based care or they are unlikely to be interested in this kind of training. Moreover, just training the MAs in this fashion will not work well unless the overall practice is ready for that approach. Therefore, in selecting externship organizations for NIMAA, the threshold questions are where a potential candidate clinic is on this journey. CHC’s Weitzman Institute can provide a variety of tools to support overall practice or other staff transformation/training.

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