To Our Colleagues

March 22, 2010

Physicians visiting our site are well aware that the common Medical Home model is a mainstream effort to better align outpatient office practice with the complicated needs of patients.  Through the use of physician extenders, educational settings and physician-directed coordination of care, providers focus on the goal of improved patient care and reduced overall cost of care.

However, we think the Medical Home is more. 

As an expert dedicated physician, you know what it is like to be able to call a colleague when you are sick or injured.  Despite the great strength and comfort of such communications, we call on our colleagues for our own care once every ten years or even less often.  But we know the door is always open and that help is always first-rate.  In a Premium Medical Home, the physician wants his patients to experience that same level of communication and service and the same sense of connection.  For the patient and for the doctor, it is direct communication and commitment that make all the difference.

We began the project of the Premium Medical Home because primary care is failing to attract new graduates from medical schools.  At the heart of this failure to attract new physicians is a failure to reward physicians in primary care.  With our model, we seek to restore this balance and provide a Medical Home for patients that simply leaves the nurse practitioner-staffed retail clinics and often chaotic twenty first century medical offices behind.  PMH promotes innovation and improvement not available in a CPT-only medical practice.

We welcome our physician colleagues’ interest.  We hope that you will call, write or e-mail us if there are questions that we could answer.  Our hope is to establish the success of this model in the years ahead.  For those who would like to explore this model for their own practices, we believe that we can help. Please see www.RobertKellyMD.com and www.AllanKellyMD.com.

Our Premium Medical Home doctors, expert in their fields, seek a different experience for their patients by offering them direct, immediate access by cell phone, internet, and text messaging within a smaller practice.  We believe our patients will experience this as if the doctor were a member of their own family.  The Premium Medical Home doctors also maintain an expert modern office that works with insurance providers to get the insurance benefit that our patients have paid for.  A PMH physician maintains staff privileges at Joint Committee for Accreditation of Healthcare Organization approved hospitals.  The PMH doctors follow their patients in rehabilitation and long-term acute care, and even in selected nursing homes.  PMH doctors are committed to continuity of care and direct access for their patients.  Such doctors with this style of commitment are uncommon and make a Premium Medical Home possible.