E5.
Use the Primary Care Extension Program to Support Integration
Infrastructure for Maintaining Primary Care Transformation (IMPaCT)
The Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded four cooperative grants to support model State-level initiatives using primary care extension agents in small and mid-sized independent primary care practices to assist with primary care redesign. (AHRQ)
Ensuring access to a modern, Medical Home: The role for a primary care extension program in health reform
Describes how health reform legislation should include establishment of a nationwide Primary Care Cooperative Extension Service, modeled after the US Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service which so successfully accelerated farm transformation.
Health Extension in New Mexico: An Academic Health Center and the Social Determinants of Disease
The Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service model offers academic health centers methodologies for community engagement that can address the social determinants of disease. (NM)
Community-Campus Partnership to improve New Mexico’s Health Community Health Extension Centers
The model described in this document attempts to collaboratively address community health issues by suggesting a set of Community Health Extension Offices (CHEOs), linked with the UNM Center for Community Partnerships and each other.
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