Getting Started - Foundations | Improving Primary Care Team Guide

Want to know where you are on the journey to team-based care? Answer the five quick questions below and we’ll tell you—and direct you to the best place to start with the Team Guide.

To learn more about the Team Guide, including how it’s structured, who should use it, and why, go here.

Foundations for Team-Based Care

Primary care practices need to have strong leadership, a culture that supports quality improvement, and empanelment to make the necessary practice team changes.

Does your practice have the leadership, quality improvement culture, and empanelment in place that are necessary to make practice changes?

No? These three resources can help you put these foundational elements in place.

SNMHI Implementation Guide on Engaged Leadership

SNMHI Implementation Guide on QI

SNMHI Implementation Guide on Empanelment

Not sure? Take the Primary Care Team Guide Assessment to find out how far along you are in establishing these foundational elements.

Primary Care Team Guide Assessment

How the Primary Care Team Guide Is Structured

Build the Team

Build the Team
Learning Modules

Maximize the roles of primary care staff.

View Learning Modules

Do the Work

Do the Work
Learning Modules

Put in place the essential functions of a high-performing primary care practice.

View Learning Modules

Paying for Team-Based Care Learning Modules

Paying for Team-Based
Care Learning Modules

Make the business case for shifting to team-based care.

View Learning Modules

Within Each Module You'll Find:

What's Needed to Make the Best of This Guide

Engaged leadership who are committed to primary care transformation and willing to commit the resources needed to support it
A data-driven quality improvement process
A stable electronic health record (EHR)
Providers who support and encourage staff involvement in patient care

Foundations for Team-Based Care

How the Primary Care Team Guide Is Structured

Build the Team Learning Modules

Do the Work Learning Modules

Paying for Team-Based Care Learning Modules

Within Each Module You'll Find:

What's Needed to Make the Best of This Guide

Build the Team
Learning Modules

Do the Work
Learning Modules

Paying for Team-Based
Care Learning Modules