The second annual Texas Health Home Summit focused specifically on expanding access to health/medical homes for individuals and families in Texas.

The Texas Health/Medical Home Summit was the first-ever statewide conference focused specifically on expanding access to a health/medical home for individuals and families in Texas.

Monthly Monday Primary Care Talks is dedicated to interviewing guest speakers from across Texas, covering a wide range of primary care topics. Today, you will hear from Dr. Kia Parsi and Helen Kent Davis about their work on the Rural Texas Maternal Health Rescue Plan to improve healthcare access for mothers in rural Texas.

Monthly Monday Primary Care Talks is dedicated to interviewing guest speakers from across Texas, covering a wide range of primary care topics. Today, you will hear from Celia Cole about her work on collaborating with the primary care system to increase access to nutritious food for all Texans.

Monthly Monday Primary Care Talks is dedicated to interviewing guest speakers from across Texas, covering a wide range of primary care topics. Today, you will hear from Celia Cole about her work on collaborating with the primary care system to increase access to nutritious food for all Texans.

A panel discussion with 3 key stakeholders in primary care in Texas – a practicing physician; a health policy specialist and a primary care association executive whose goal is to explore key issues and solutions to advance access to care for all Texans while improving health outcomes, reducing disparities, and lowering costs.

This session will review the historical context of primary care in the US including the research of Dr. Starfield and others that helped establish the foundational role of primary care in the health of individuals and communities. The session will then focus on innovations in care models including the patient-centered medical home; Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation models (CPC, CPC+, others) and briefly review the evidence for their impact.

Join us for the 10th Annual Texas Primary Care Consortium Summit: A Decade of Powering Primary Care Transformation, as we honor the past 10 years of convening health champions and continue in our shared pursuit of improving the health of Texans through accessible, equitable, and coordinated person-centered primary care.

Primary care, when prioritized in the health system, results in people living longer lives with more equitable outcomes. Decades of research have proven the foundational role of primary care in improving health outcomes, lowering costs, and reducing disparities.

Learn how a large multi-specialty private practice and a federally qualified health center with multiple locations responded to the challenges presented by the pandemic, including changes implemented and lessons learned.