title: Partnering with universities and colleges to facilitate the PCMH process. An innovative plan to place healthcare management students into practices to promote healthcare transformation.
abstract: Practices contemplating the Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition process are confronted with an arduous task. Perhaps the most palpable constraints are time management combined with staff allocation decisions. Outside consultants can be expensive and disruptive to practice flow. Collaborating with a local college or university's healthcare management or other health career students might be one answer. This article will explore that option.
authors.affiliation: Community Care of North Carolina, USA. nutramd@aol.com
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009657:North Carolina; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017748:Time Management; D014495:Universities