Sweet Medical Center: a recognized Patient Centered Medical Home

Sweet Medical Center is a Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), having met the guidelines of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the largest national certifying group with more than 7000 recognized primary care facilities. In 1967 the American Academy of Pediatrics introduced the ‘medical home’ concept—put simply, a way of organizing and providing primary health care “in a way patients want to receive care.” Since the inception of the model, national medical organizations developed strict guidelines for primary care facilities to achieve certification as a patient centered med...