Primary Care Training and Enhancement: Training Primary Care Champions

The purpose of this program is to strengthen primary care and the workforce by establishing fellowship programs to train community-based practicing primary care physician and/or physician assistant champions to lead health care transformation and enhance teaching in community-based settings.  Characteristics of transformed health care delivery systems identified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) include:

•   Providers across the care continuum participate in integrated or virtually integrated delivery models,

•   Care is coordinated across all providers and settings,

•   High level of patient engagement and quantifiable results on patient experience,

•   Providers leverage the use of health information technology to improve quality,

•   Providers perform at the top of their license and board certification,

•   Population health measures are integrated into the delivery system, and

•   Data are used to drive health system processes.[1]

HRSA also recognizes addressing social determinants of health as a characteristic of transformed health care delivery systems.

[1] CMS State Innovation Models Cooperative Agreement Announcement (May 2014).  Available at:  http://innovation.cms.gov/Files/x/StateInnovationRdTwoFOA.pdf