Highlights PACE programs’ efforts to redesign care during the COVID-19 pandemic and presents policy options that may help to expand access to the programs in the future.
Integrated health care systems can better support high-risk patients by embedding high-risk patient care within general primary care and mental health care.
Providing virtual case mentoring to outpatient care teams may reduce unnecessary hospital and emergency department visits for high-need, high-cost patients.
Features David Labby, MD, health strategy advisor for Health Share of Oregon, who provides insights on the recently released report on Camden Coalition's randomized controlled trial on the Camden Core Model.
Primary care initiatives have shown that enhancing primary care can coordinate service delivery to the benefit of both patients and clinicians. In Medicare ACOs, primary care transformation has been foundational for shifting to a team-based approach that reaps benefits for everyone involved.
Video series details how health systems can redesign primary care, including through home-based primary care programs, to better meet the needs of people with disabilities.
The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly provides comprehensive, compassionate medical care and long-term services and supports to older adults with persistent complex needs who are eligible for nursing home care. Yet, PACE reaches less than two percent of those who could benefit from its services.