Executive Summary:
The Johns Hopkins
Primary Care Consortium
(JHPCC)
Report to Johns Hopkins Medicine
April 23, 2012
Mission
The mission of the Institute is to provide a broadly collaborative and multidisciplinary academic home for research, education, quality improvement, and
innovation designed to improve primary care and health outcomes for the benefit
of patients and society. The Center is to inspire and nurture the development,
value, and professional growth of primary care clinicians, educators and
researchers within all entities of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Vision
The Institute will be recognized regionally, nationally and internationally as an
innovative source of leadership, discovery, and dissemination of evidenced-based
clinical processes, education, scholarship, and public policy development regarding
primary care.
Specific Aims
To achieve the overall mission, we propose to address the following specific aims:
Specific Aim 1: To develop, implement and evaluate models of primary care
delivery that:
- are evidence based and improve health care outcomes;
- integrate research and health care systems across different life stages, recognizing the
impact of illness, experience, and health care at earlier life stages on subsequent
health, (termed the life course development model);
- integrate care among different health professionals and facilities (termed horizontal
integration); and
- integrate care with various social sectors (e.g. social services, child care centers,
schools, employers, housing, government) that impact health care outcomes (termed
vertical integration).
Specific Aim 2: To enhance the education of all trainees about primary care
excellence and innovation. At Johns Hopkins School of Medicine few students
ultimately chose to pursue a career in primary care practice whether they obtain their
post-graduate training here or elsewhere. While most post-graduate trainees pursue subspecialty tracks, a goal of the Center is to increase the number of practicing primary care
physicians and leaders trained here. The Center will lead educational efforts that will
demonstrate the increasing institutional value placed on primary care practice and will
engage all trainees in primary care.
Specific Aim 3: To train and mentor the next generation of faculty leaders in
primary care.
These individuals will serve as the role models to inspire physicians coming after them to
follow their career path. The Center will work to develop faculty leaders with broad
expertise related to education, scholarship, and the practice of primary care medicine.
The unique perspective of the community-based practitioner will also be recognized and
appreciated. The Center will devise and make available faculty development initiatives to
assist in the professional growth of these individuals and to promote collaboration among
the networks of practitioners affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Specific Aim 4: To develop frameworks and models for translating research and
innovation in primary care into health care policy and practice. The Affordable Care
Act emphasizes the importance of primary care access and medical home systems of care.
New financing mechanisms that are being considered will place priorities on innovations
to improve outcomes and reduce cost. When Johns Hopkins University’s expertise in
primary care can be layered on top of its qualifications in specialty care, new research
discoveries, and health plan administration, JHPCC will be uniquely positioned to be at
the forefront of these policy changes. The Institute will influence the use of technology
to support improved outcomes while maintaining a focus on the doctor-patient
relationship. The resultant patient centered primary care, which may soon require
recognition of personal genomics in addition to the biopsychosocial factors that impact
wellness, will be achievable and will be facilitated by innovations that support effective
communication among caregivers, primary care providers, and specialists
Short-term Plans and Deliverables
In order to establish itself as a resource for the Johns Hopkins Medicine community, JHPCC
intends to embark on specific activities and generate identifiable products over the next 12-18
months.
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