Army Medical Home Primary Care Clinic
About Us
The Presidio of Monterey Army Health Clinic (POMAHC), at the Presidio of Monterey, is a Patient Centered Medical Home. The Army Medical Home is designed around one core principle: Putting patients first. The Army Medical Home is Army Medicine’s gateway to influence the “life space” where patients make decisions on the key determinants of health and wellness – sleep, activity, and nutrition (that is, the Performance Triad).
POMAHC Patient Centered Medical Home Primary Care Clinics are Army Medical Homes with an interdisciplinary approach to delivering evidence-based, comprehensive primary care– coordinating care delivered outside of the primary care setting and proactively engaging patients as partners in health
Each patient will partner with a team of health care providers – physicians, nurses, mental health, clinical pharmacists, physical therapy and case management professionals to develop a comprehensive, personal health care plan. This team will form a partnership with you to provide improved access, coordinate needed services, answer your questions, and ensure that you get the care you need. Your Medical Home team will remain the same as long as they continue to work within your medical home. This will improve your continuity of care and allow you to develop a closer partnership with your team. The Army Medical Home model has been shown to improve patients’ overall health, resulting in fewer emergency and urgent care visits, decreased hospital admissions, shorter inpatient stays and fewer inpatient readmissions among other positive results.
To transition from a “health care system” to a System for Health, moving away from episodic care to a standardized, long-term model that achieves optimal health outcomes. The Army Medical Home model will facilitate the transformation to a System for Health and be the primary care means for providing patient-centered comprehensive care to patients. The desired end state is for all patients to receive coordinated, comprehensive care guided by the Army Medical Home. Key to this coordination is improved communication using face-to-face and technological methods such as the MHS GENESIS Patient Portal. The MHS GENESIS Patient Portal is a secure website for 24/7 access to your health information, including managing appointments and exchanging messages with your care team. For more information, visit POMAHC’s
MHS GENESIS page.
Receiving Care
For all life-threatening (life, limb, or sight) emergencies Dial 911 or go directly to the closest emergency room!
Urgent Care
Patients seen at the Presidio of Monterey U.S. Army Health Clinic and assigned a primary care manager can be seen for same day appointments. Service members have priority. If a patient is unable to get an appointment with their PCM within a 24 hour period, the patient will be directed to an available provider on the PCM team or alternate team for an acute appointment; or referred to the network.
Directions
The Patient Centered Medical Home is the U.S. Army Health Main Clinic, located on the Presidio of Monterey. From Bolio Road and Lighthouse Avenue, enter the Presidio of Monterey through the Bolio Gate. Continue to Army Street and turn left. Continue to Kit Carson Road and turn right. On Kit Carson Road continue to Cabrillo Street and turn left. The Presidio of Monterey Army Health Clinic is in Building 422 and located at 473 Cabrillo Street.