Heights Medical Integrates the Patient Centered Medical Home and Achieves Recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance

With this New Year, we are making a new commitment to your health. Heights Medical is proud to announce the integration of the Patient Centered Medical Home into our practice. We have also achieved recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

Heights Medical was invited to participate in a project sponsored by the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians and Horizon Blue Cross. For the first phase of our integration, the program is designed to apply the patient centered medical home principles to select groups in our practice (Diabetic, Coronary Artery Disease, and Congestive Heart Failure patients) to improve patient outcomes.

Participating patients will receive a complete review and evaluation of their health status, a personal health record that is available to them 24/7, anywhere in the world. Patients will leave with a better understanding of their condition and tools to help them gain better control of their disease. They will learn the 13 metrics to be followed for better outcomes specific to their current health status. Hackensack University Medical Center has offered to coordinate care in the case of hospitalization or emergency room visits. We have also enlisted a team of specialty physicians for participants, should they be needed.

Heights Medical has been awarded recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a Patient Centered Medical Home(TM) recognized practice. We support the adoption of the PCMH in New Jersey and are actively restructuring areas of the practice to accommodate this process. We believe that our patients will benefit from the PCMH concept in quality, support, care-planning and self-management.

We are thrilled to introduce this monumental program to our practice and patients. For more information, contact us today. If you are a patient and would like to participate in this program, please make an appointment with the physician of your choice by contacting Heights Medical at 201.288.6781.

About the Patient Centered Medical Home
The American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics have endorsed the concept of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). The PCMH acknowledges that the best quality of care is provided NOT in episodic, illness oriented, compliant based care--but through patient centered, physician guided, cost efficient, longitudinal care that encompasses and values both the art and science of medicine.