The following resources support pediatric clinicians and practice teams in pediatric medical home implementation:

• Building Your Medical Home: An Introduction to Pediatric Primary Care Transformation
  Created by the National Center for Medical Home Implementation, this online resource guide provides direction, resources, and tools to pediatric medical home clinicians and practices seeking to advance their knowledge and understanding of the medical home concept as it relates to practice transformation.

• Medical Homes @ Work e-Newsletter
  This monthly publication from the National Center for Medical Home Implementation provides the most up to date tools, resources, literature, and educational opportunities for clinicians and other pedaitric professionals related to pediatric medical home implementation.
• American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement: The Medical Home
  This policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics provides adefinition and framework for the pediatric medical home and its core components.
  
• Fostering Partnership and Teamwork in the Pediatric Medical Home: A "How-To" Video Series
  This 3-part video series provides step-by-step instructions on increasing family-centered care and team work.
• Creating Efficiency: Team Huddles
• Building a Stronger Pediatric Medical Home: Family Advisory Groups
• Enhancing Collaboration with Families: Care Partnership Support

Provision of family-centered care is a key function of a pediatric medical home. At its core, the pediatric medical home acknowledges and respects that families are the primary caregivers, experts, and supports for their child.

Family-centered care honors the strengths, cultures, traditions, and expertise that family members bring to the medical home team and fosters a respectful partnership between families and clinicians.

The following are resources for child health professionals interested in implementing and enhancing family-centered care:

• Building Your Medical Home: Implementing Family-Centered Care
• Positioning the Family and Patient at the Center: A Guide to Family and Patient Partnerships in the Medical Home
• Family-Centered Care Assessment Tool for Families
• Family-Centered Care Assessment Tool for Providers
• Medical Home Family Index and Survey:
• English
• Chinese
• Spanish
• Benchmark Data
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Creating a Patient and Family Advisory Council: A Toolkit for Pediatric Practices
• Family Engagement Guide: The Role of Family Health Partners in Quality Improvement Within a Pediatric Medical Home
• Parent Partners: Creative Forces on Medical Home Improvement Teams
• Extra-Ordinary Care: Improving Your Medical Home, A Learning Guide for Families and Caregivers
  
• Patient-Clinician Communication: Basic Principles and Expectations
• Powerful Partnerships: A Handbook for Families and Providers Working Together to Improve Care
• The Pediatrician's Role in Family Support and Family Support Programs
• Title V Toolbox for Family Participation
• Compendium: Tools for Engaging Patients in Your Practice
• Parent Advisory Groups in Pediatric Practices: Parents' and Professionals' Perceptions
• Fostering Partnership and Teamwork in the Pediatric Medical Home: A "How-To" Video Series

Care coordination involves the "deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient's care to facilitate the appropriate delivery of health care services."

The following is a list of resources for child health professionals and others interested in implementing and enhancing care coordination:

• Building Your Medical Home: Coordinated Care
• Patient- and Family- Centered Care Coordination: A Framework for Integrating Care for Children and Youth Across Multiple Systems
• Beyond the Medical Home: Coordinating Care for Children
• Pediatric Care Coordination: Beyond Policy, Practice, and Implementation, a Webinar Series
• Pediatric Care Coordination Curriculum
• Care Coordination Measurement Tool
• Sample Care Coordinator Job Descriptions:
• Care Coordinator Job Description
• Parent Consultant Job Description
• Special Needs Consultation and Care Coordination Program Job Description
• Making Care Coordination a Critical Component of the Pediatric Health System: A Multidisciplinary Framework
• Implementing a Care Coordination Program for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: Partnering with Families and Providers
• Primary Care Referral and Feedback Form

A care plan, or a medical summary, assists with the implementation of successful care coordination within a pediatric medical home. A comprehensive care plan includes all historical, medical, and social aspect of a child and family's needs. It also includes the following:

• Key interventions
• Roles and responsibilities of each care team member
• Contact information

In a pediatric medical home, a care plan should be created in partnership with the family and youth. The following is a list of resources that can be used when creating and implementing a shared plan of care within a pediatric medical home:

• Achieving a Shared Plan of Care with Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
• Building Your Medical Home: Sample Pediatric Care Plan
• Care Planning Process and Resources

A family’s cultural background—including beliefs, rituals, and customs—are recognized, valued, and respected within a pediatric medical home. All efforts are made to ensure that the child or youth and family understand the details of the medical encounter and the care plan.

The following resources are available to help with implementation and enhancement of culturally competent care:

• Language Access in Pediatric Primary Care
  
• Strategies to Enhance Access to Pediatric Medical Homes for Hispanic Communities
  
•  Culturally Effective Care Toolkit
• Healthy Equity Resources for Pediatric Clinicians
• Providing Care for Immigrant, Migrant, and Border Children
• Signage for Multilingual Healthcare Settings
• Culture, Language and Health Literacy: Resources for Clinicians to Improve Cultural Competency
• Think Cultural Health: Cultural and Linguistic Competency Resources
• More than Words Toolkit Series: Improving the Quality of Translated Patient Materials
• Multicultural Health Care: A Quality Improvement Guide
• Clearview 360: Cultural Competency Organizational Self-Assessment Tool
• A Comprehensive Framework and Preferred Practices for Measuring and Reporting Cultural Competency
• National Center for Cultural Competency, Georgetown University

Team-based care improves communication and health care for patients and families. The following resources are available to help with the implementation of team-based care:

• Fostering Partnership and Teamwork in the Pediatric Medical Home: A "How-To" Video Series
• Building Your Medical Home: Form a Medical Home Improvement Team
• Creating Efficiency: Team Huddles
• Team-based Care in Pediatric Medical Homes
• Core Principles and Values of Effective Team-Based Health Care
• Key Elements of Highly Effective Teams
• Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
• Primary Care Team Guide
• Cambridge Health Alliance Model of Team-based Care Implementation Guide and Toolkit
  

Practices that provide care consistent with a medical home approach are well positioned to advocate and negotiate for improved and appropriate payment. The following resources focus on payment for medical home activities within a practice:

• Building Your Medical Home: Sustain Your Medical Home
• Measuring Medical Homes: Tools to Evaluate the Pediatric Patient- and Family- Centered Medical Home
• Medical Home Index:
• Full Version: English
• Full Version: Spanish
  
• Short Version
• Benchmark Data
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Medical Home Coding Fact Sheet
• Coding for Pediatric Preventive Care
• The Medical Home for Children: Financing Principles
• Principles of Child Health Financing

Many organizations have created online resource guides, toolkits, and training opportunities for clinicians and practices implementing medical home. The following is a collection of these resources:

• Building Your Medical Home: An Introduction to Pediatric Primary Care Transformation
• Medical Home Modules for Pediatric Residency Programs
  
• EQIPP: Medical Home
• TransforMED: Transforming Medical Practices
• American College of Physicians Practice Advisor
• Patient-Centered Medical Home Resource Center, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality