Patient-Centered Primary Care Foundation

PCC recognizes that current evidence must guide the delivery of primary care and the policies that shape it. We compile the latest literature and expert perspectives to inform care around issues such as levels of primary care investment, oral health integration, and shared decision-making with patients. This work is funded through public awards, including PCORI, as well as by foundations. PCC also publishes original research around key topics in primary care such as its “Evidence Reports”, released annually, that explore topics ranging from the impact of patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations, to state comparisons of primary care spending. Since March 2020, we have also tracked the impact of COVID-19 on primary care, including partnering with the Larry A. Green Center on its survey of frontline primary care clinicians and COVID’s impact on the care they deliver.

Visit www.thepcc.org/research and http://www.thepcc.org/covid to learn more.

PCC offers a range of opportunities for its members and the broader public to explore emerging topics in primary care delivery and financing. We offer free monthly webinars that engage thought leaders, academics, policymakers, and patients in robust conversation around how to improve primary care quality and sustainability. These webinars are recorded and accessible on our website. PCC also provides a range of other educational offerings including free quarterly newsletters (in addition to monthly member-only newsletters), policy alerts, and thought leadership pieces. Each year, the organization hosts an annual convening—generally open to its members as well as other key stakeholders in primary care—that provides a space for dialogue, presentations, and peer networking to further the movement for advanced primary care.

Visit www.thepcc.org/webinars to view PCC’s free webinars. See http://www.thepcc.org/calendar to learn more about upcoming events, including PCC’s annual conference.

PCC brings together clinicians, patients, and industry to improve the quality of primary care across the U.S. and the long-term health of communities. This work includes identifying best practices in care delivery and providing resources to help multi-disciplinary teams implement them. Search PCC’s online resource hub or view our webinars to learn more about topics such as telehealth and coordinating care. PCC also hosts a “Transformation Tools” database, created through a federal TCPI grant, that offers practices customizable tools to move toward more advanced, patient-centered models of care. Part of our work to improve care delivery involves strengthening the integration of services to care for the whole person—body, mind, and spirit. PCC runs an ongoing behavioral health integration workgroup and hosts focused convenings on topics such as integrating oral health and lifestyle medicine in primary care.

Visit www.thepcc.org/transformation and www.thepcc.org/resources to learn more.

Launched in March 2022, the PCC's Better Health - Now campaign is a major vehicle the PCC is using to further its overall organizational mission. The main objective of the campaign is to secure policy changes that improve the health and well-being of patients. We can do this by increasing investment in primary care and promoting primary care payment models that ensure all communities have access to care.

There’s nothing more important than our health. That’s why many of us rely on a primary care professional to partner with us and our families on the path to healthier, more fulfilling lives.

We need strong primary care in every community, so we all have better access to health. This campaign is a way to make this vision a reality.