Welcome to the OAFP

The mission of the OAFP is to advocate for family physicians and assist them in providing for the health of their patients and communities.

NATIONAL HEALTH REFORM- WHAT IS THE OAFP DOING?
* We have sent this letter to our Congressional Delegation in Washington DC.

* We have created a website devoted to health reform information, www.FixHealthCareToday.org

* We are using local family physicians to give a powerpoint presentation titled "Saving Lives, Saving Money" to Rotary Clubs and retirement communities around the state (please e-mail kg@oafp.org if you would like more information about this project)

Annual Spring CME Weekend
May 6-8, 2010
Embassy Suites, Downtown Portland

POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment). New rules you need to know.

What you need to know about Patient Centered Medical Home.

Click here for an excellent summary of many of the PCMH pilot programs around the US. The results of these programs show that PCMH works very well in both small practices and large integrated systems. Overall, the results show that with better access and care coordination using HIT, there is consistently a 25 to 30% reduction in hospitalization, 50% decrease in rehospitalization and a 10 to 30% reduction ER use. Many of the pilots show that just the reduced hospitalization alone more than covered the cost of delivering PCMH level care.
For small and medium size practices, the 32 practices in the TransforMED National Demonstration are seeing an average 14% increase in revenue, even without new money, plus much more satisfaction among patients, doctors and staff.

The Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program (CPGP) was created to educate health care professionals about pharmaceutical industry marketing practices and to provide tools for accessing unbiased sources of information about prescription drugs.