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Colorado Family Medicine Residency PCMH Project

Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC),  the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, the Colorado Association of Family Medicine Residencies (CAFMR) and the Colorado Institute of Family Medicine (CIFM) are partnering together to begin working on the challenging task of practice transformation in Colorado’s family medicine residency programs. 

The “Colorado Family Medicine Residency PCMH Project” originally grew out of the experience CCGC has had with working with multiple types of practices throughout the state in practice redesign efforts, including a couple of residency practices.  Early experience led to the idea that assisting a residency practice in developing characteristics of sustainable improvement work would require a joining of forces between a residency’s practice and program, with tandem efforts supportive of the improvement work within the curriculum itself. 

The PCMH is an approach to providing continuous, comprehensive, coordinated care with a partnership between patients and their personal healthcare team, as a part of an integrated medical neighborhood.

Thank you!

We are very grateful to the following organizations for funding the Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot.

Colorado Family Medicine Residency Practices include:

  • Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program—Poudre Valley Health System
  • North Colorado Family Medicine—Banner Health (Greeley)
  • Rose Family Medicine Center (Denver)
  • Southern Colorado Family Medicine Center—Centura Health (Pueblo)
  • St. Anthony Family Medicine Residency—Centura Health (Denver)
  • St. Joseph’s--Bruner Family Medicine Center—Exempla (Denver)
  • St. Mary’s Family Medicine (Grand Junction)
  • Swedish Family Medicine Residency (Denver)
  • University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency
  • AF Williams Family Medicine Center—University of Colorado Hospital
  • Lowry Family Health Center—Denver Health

Resources made available for the Residency Practices include:

  • Funding stipend to help defray cost to program/practice for engaging in improvement work
  • Provision of consultative services in the areas of Health Information Technology, practice redesign, group visits and patient self-management support.
  • Funding to cover licensing fees for Reach My Doctor™, a HIPAA-compliant web-based registry and communication software application.
  • NCQA PPC-PCMH Recognition Program™ application fee
  • Onsite practice improvement coaching
  • Curricular redesign assistance
  • Leadership alignment assistance

The Core Coaching Team consists of:

  • Project Director
    Perry Dickinson, MD—University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine
  • Practice Redesign Project Manager
    Deb Barnett, RN, MS, FNP—CCGC
  • Curriculum Redesign Project Coordinator
    Bonnie Jortberg, MS, RD, CDE—University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine
  • Residency Quality Improvement Coach
    Nicole Deaner, MSW—CCGC

Advisory and Supporting Team Members include:

CCGC
Marjie Harbrecht, MD— CCGC Executive Director
Julie Schilz, RN, MBA—IPIP and PCMH Manager; Senior Project Advisor
Angela Kurr—Administrative Assistant

Department of Family Medicine
Frank deGruy, MD—Department Chair; Senior Project Advisor
Larry Green, MD—Professor; Project Evaluation and Curriculum Redesign
Tiffany Noelle Brown, PHD—Project Evaluation and Curriculum Redesign

Colorado Association of Family Medicine Residencies/Colorado Institute of Family Medicine
Terri Means—Director of Operations; Curriculum Redesign
Antonio Prado-Guiterrez—Executive Director; Steering Advisory Group

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Additional Information

For questions and additional information, please contact Deb Barnett at (720) 297-1681.