Six Penn Medicine Clinical Care Associates (CCA) Internal Medicine and Family Medicine practices received level III certification, the highest designation granted, for their efforts to provide coordinated, efficient care through the Patient Centered Medical Home program (PCMH) operated by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Penn Family and Internal Medicine Lincoln, Penn Family and Internal Medicine Longwood, Penn Family Medicine New Garden, Penn Family Medicine Southern Chester County, Penn Family Medicine Unionville and Penn Primary Care and Integrative Medicine Whiteland all were awarded the certification. They bring the total number of University of Pennsylvania Health System practices with this designation to 30.

“These are high performing community practices, but also are spokes of a world-renowned academic medical center hub,” said Charles Orellana, chief medical officer of CCA. “Thusly, these practices serve communities throughout the region by continuously utilizing information technology and other collaborative efforts to put patient care first.”

The three-year designation comes from NCQA’s Physician Practice Connections—Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) program, which uses evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long-term medical professional-patient participatory relationships.

For a complete list of primary care medical practices and clinicians receiving this NCQA honor, visit http://recognition.ncqa.org