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Massachusetts' Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative (PCMHI) is a demonstration program that seeks to implement the Patient-Centered Medical Home model in a number of primary care practices, including community health centers, across Massachusetts with the goal of furthering Massachusetts' efforts in health care reform.

The PCMHI is intended to address a series of problems including: 

* Fragmented, discontinuous care that harms patient health status and increases costs; 

* Increasing prevalence of chronic disease, and suboptimal management of chronic disease among patients with such illnesses; 

* A growing shortage of primary care providers.