The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced that 15 Methodist Family Health Centers have received recognition from the NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home 2011 (PCMH 2011) program for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long-term relationships. The NCQA also recognized 35 Methodist primary care physicians for their roles in achieving high standards of care.

“Building strong, healthy relationships between patients and primary care physicians is the foundation for what we’re doing with our Methodist Family Health Centers,” says Melissa Gerdes, MD, ABFM, AAFP, vice president and chief medical officer for outpatient services and accountable care organization strategy at Methodist Health System. “This recognition is a validation of the importance we’ve placed on providing quality patient-centered care at convenient locations.”

Methodist Family Health Centers met key program components in the following areas:

• Written standards for patient access and continuity of care.
• Use of patient feedback materials.
• Appropriate use of charting tools to track patients and organize clinical information.
• Responsive care management techniques with an emphasis on preventive care for individual patients and for the entire patient population.
• Adaptation to patients’ cultural and linguistic needs.
• Use of information technology for prescriptions, test and referral tracking and coordination with other health care providers.
• Use of evidence-based guidelines to treat chronic conditions.
• Measurement and reporting of clinical and service performance.

 Methodist health centers and physicians receiving NCQA PCMH recognition include:

• Methodist Family Health Center – Cedar Hill East
• Jaclyn Ganacias, MD
• Shyama Gandhi, MD
• Brian Jones, MD
• Methodist Family Health Center – Central Grand Prairie
• Kathleen Humphries, DO
• Oscar De Leon, MD
• Olga Jones, MD
• Methodist Family Health Center – Kessler Park
• Laquita Shepherd, MD
• Darrell Thigpen, MD
• Methodist Family Health Center – Lake Prairie
• Gerald George, DO
• Brandy Robinson, MD
• Methodist Family Health Center – Midlothian
• Donna Shannon, MD
• Mary Welp, MD
• Jeffrey McDaniel, MD
• Methodist Family Health Center – South Arlington
• Minh Le, MD
• Melissa Gerdes, MD
• Methodist Family Health Center – South Grand Prairie
• Eric Beadle, MD
• Pamela Santone, DO
• Michael Sims, MD
• Methodist Breckinridge Family Medical Group
• Gary Sackrison, MD
• Methodist Charlton Medical Group
• Jill Waggoner, MD
• Robert Suter, DO
• Methodist First Aid Family Care
• Stephen Drye, MD
• Methodist Mansfield Medical Group
• Nancy Georgekutty, MD
• Amber Hyde, MD
• John Thurmond, MD
• Methodist Richardson Family Medical Group
• Thomas Jeffrey, MD
• Margaret Bailey, DO
• Lamyen Tran, MD
• Methodist Richardson Health Center
• Alanna Silverstein, MD
• Shakil Ahmed, MD
• Methodist Richardson Medical Group
• Pamela Singh, MD
• Methodist Uptown Medical Group
• Patricia Allamon, MD
• Callie Hollenshead, MD
• Individual recognition
• Perry Beckstrom, DO
• Darin Charles, MD