Does your child have a health care provider who ...

  • Knows your child well?
  • Has seen your child at least once in the past year for a well-child visit?
  • Usually or always spends enough time with the family, explains things so you can understand, and provides interpreter services if needed?
  • Provides telephone advice or urgent care when your child needs it?
  • Helps you get specialty care, services, and equipment if your child needs it?
  • Talks with you about specialist visits and the use of special services or equipment?

If you can answer yes to most of these questions, congratulations! It sounds like your child has a medical home – and is receiving the kind of high quality, family-focused health care that defines the medical home concept of care.

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National Center for Medical Home Implementation, a cooperative agreement between HRSA and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Child Health Day 2009: Every Child Deserves a Medical Home.