About this Training

PCA 101: Foundations - Primary Care Advancement for Network Partnerships

This course provides an awareness-level overview of Network Partnerships in NCQA’s Primary Care Advancement program. Learners explore how primary care teams use partner relationships to connect patients with services and supports outside the practice. The course focuses on partner types, referral and communication basics, information return, follow-up and use of a basic partner inventory to understand the network and identify gaps.

What You Will Learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify common partner types and how networks help close care gaps.
• Describe basic referral, communication and shared expectation practices.
• Explain how a basic partner inventory helps practices understand commonly used partners.
• Recognize patient barriers that may affect referral follow-through and information return.

Who Should Attend

• Primary Care Leaders, administrators and practice teams new to Primary Care Advancement.
• Quality, Population health, care management, finance and operations staff supporting value-based care performance.
• Consultants, coaches and implementation teams supporting primary care organizations.

Continuing Education

This  course grants 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.
This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM, ANA CNE, ACPE activity.

* Please note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of contact hours.

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.

For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution.  For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

Planning Committee Member:

Crissy Crittenden: None
Jeff Sitko: None
Faith Jasso: None
Bri Clifford: None
Amy Awate: None
Kelly Cavin: None

This program was developed in part by NCQA staff.

This program received no commercial support.