Medical home model for improved patient care.

The result will assure that the health care system is in the forefront of offering primary care according to the new model. It will also provide two major benefits to patients: assurance of quality, as well heightened education and support — one of the requirements of NCQA accreditation. “The patient-centered medical home is designed to give patients the help and support they need to be involved in their own health care,” said Mark Fenlon, MD, regional vice president of Ministry Medical Group and a family medicine physician in Stevens Point. “I’m convinced this is the primary care model of the future.” The health care system serves most of the upper half of Wisconsin and a portion of southeastern Minnesota and includes 15 hospitals and 17 Ministry Medical Group clinics among its health care services. The pilot programs are located in Waupaca and Stevens Point in central Wisconsin and Tomahawk in northern Wisconsin.