"Blueprint for Health" is a program that the Department of Vermont Health Access provides. This department is also the one that is administering Vermont's health care reform plan. The Blueprint is aimed to achieve "well coordinated and seamless health services, with an emphasis on prevention and wellness for all Vermonters, while controlling the cost of care." By this definition, the Blueprint helps to push a well-developed practitioner-patient relationship. The Health Matters Blog from Brattleboro Memorial Hospital discussed how the Blueprint model involves the entire community, and that this starts with the primary care practices that emphasize a holistic approach to the patient. I believe one of the most important pieces of this relationship is mutual respect and trust that consists of the practitioner paying attention to the patient as a person and not solely as a disease. One of the best ways to do this is by getting to know your patients and their families in order to initiate a full support system for the health problems that you help them with. The Blueprint for Health model demonstrates an ease of access between practitioners and other services in terms of referral and constructing a full health team. This model enables providers to build their relationship with patients, and I hope that this continues to push mutual respect, and fully understanding your patients in the future.
Link to the article: http://www.bmhvt.org/healthmatters/blueprint-community
