Oncology Medical Home, Come Home, Barbara McAneny

...Barbara McAneny, chief executive of the New Mexico Cancer Center, said, “We need as many doctors’ thinking about what they can do better for their patients as they possibly can…

The transformation… began with an award from the Innovation Center… the Community Oncology Medical Home, or COME HOME, model. Six other practices joined the study...

We treat a lot of poor people,” McAneny said… hospitalizations dropped by more than half… The Innovation Center built on McAneny’s idea to create the Oncology Care Model...

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New Mexico Cancer Center...
COME HOME...
Oncology Care Model...

The focus is to provide more coordinated care ...
improve patients' access to physicians...
cut out unnecessary services...

Keeping patients in their own homes while they undergo care is one of the main gains, helping them physically and psychologically, improving their overall care.