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Chronic Care Model helps improve people’s health and care
Date:1/5/2009

eneral or primary care that Group Health has piloted and is adopting at all its 26 medical centers: the Patient-Centered Medical Home. At its heart is the Chronic Care Model.

"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is working to spread the Model and strengthen the evidence for its impact on quality and costs," said Cindy Brach, MPP. The review's other co-author, she is a senior health policy researcher at AHRQ, a federal agency in Rockville, MD. Funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the AHRQ supported the review.


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Contact: Rebecca Hughes
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Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies
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