A medical home provides prevention services and coordinates referral and treatment services to keep children well. It also helps families learn the best way to help their child grow up healthy. Each child's medical home should best serve that child's health care needs. Linking families to continuous, accessible medical care helps ease their burden navigating the medical system.
Dr. James Perrin, former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, discusses Head Start and the medical home. Learn why it is crucial to link families to a medical home that best serves their needs by providing continuous, accessible medical care.
Learn about the medical home and why it's important to connect families so their child can receive continuous, accessible medical care.