Health Care Homes Certification
Step 1 Eligibility
To seek HCH certification, an eligible clinician must deliver patient and family centered primary care services using a team of staff (clinician, care coordinator and other staff as defined by the patient’s needs and clinic’s resources). An eligible clinician is a physician, advanced practice nurse or physician assistant that takes responsibility for the patient’s care and provides the full range of primary care services. A personal clinician or a primary care clinic may be certified as a health care home. A clinic will be certified only if all the clinic’s personal clinicians meet the requirements for participation in a health care home. It is the clinic’s responsibility to orient new clinicians and staff to the health care home’s care delivery approach.
- Primary care: overall and ongoing medical responsibility for a patient's comprehensive care for preventive care and a full range of acute and chronic conditions, including end-of-life care when appropriate.
Refer to the HCH eligibility section of the Certification/Recertification Operations Manual Providing Application Submission Support (COMPASS) (PDF) for detailed information.