Moving and Scaling Home-Based Primary Care, Phase III: Quality, Training, Advocacy and Policy

Grant Summary

Four grants will help build home-based primary care into health care delivery and health policy in the U.S. as a critical component of age-friendly care:

• National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network (PIs: Bruce Leff, Christine Ritchie, $1,398,131) will be expanded (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
• Home Centered Care Institute (PI: Thomas Cornwell, $805,263) will educate the current and emerging workforce with a repurposed, age-friendly home-based primary care curriculum
• American Academy of Home Care Medicine (PI: Eric De Jonge, $361,199) will refine a centralized, comprehensive database and directory of home-based primary care practices
• Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy (PI: Robert Saunders, $325,000) will advance policy reforms that expand access to home-based care.

Several of the organizations receive co-funding from the RRF Foundation for Aging and Josiah Macy Foundation.

Related Grant Resources

• JAMDA Paper: Stakeholder Perspectives on Development of a Home-Based Primary Care Practice Recognition Program
• Duke-Margolis: Three Immediate Policy Actions to Enhance Financial Sustainability of Home-Based Primary Care for High-Need and Homebound Older Adults
• Health Affairs Forefront: Medicare Can Leverage Home-Based Care To Optimize Value For Homebound Beneficiaries
• Health Affairs Forefront: Bridging The Home-Based Primary Care Gap In Rural Areas
• The Power of Three Plus One: The John A. Hartford Foundation Expands Collaborative Grant Effort to Advance Home-Based Primary Care
• American Academy of Home Care Medicine: House Call Finder
• Previous Phase: Moving and Scaling Home-Based Primary Care Phase II - Quality, Training and Advocacy