Recent News

January, 2009

"Effectiveness of Care Coordination and Health Counseling in Advancing Illness" written by Joseph B. Englehardt, PhD.; Jeremy S. Nicholson, PhD.; Daniel R. Tobin, MD.;et al.

January 18, 2008

America is Catching on to Coordinated Care

The Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care (CAICC):

CAICC completed an evaluation of a Medicare demonstration, in collaboration with Hamot Medical Center in Erie Pennsylvania, studying the effects of improved care coordination with patients and family caregivers facing advancing Alzheimer’s disease. The results of this study have been accepted for publication in the peer review journal Home Healthcare Nurse, March, 2008.

CAICC, in partnership with The Garfield Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, recently completed the evaluation of a 4 site prospective trial studying the effects of Advanced
Illness Coordinated Care. This large study involved Medicare patients enrolled within Kaiser’s health system in San Diego and Oakland, California as well as Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado.

CAICC’s  focused activities on studying practical care coordination within populations facing serious chronic and advanced illness, as well as end of life care, continues to contribute relevant data to potential innovations in national public policy for care coordination. Significant findings in the studies mentioned above will be published in leading publications in 2008.

CAICC , in collaboration with Sesame Workshop, will proudly be releasing an educational DVD entitled, “Here For You: Helping Children Cope With Serious Illness” to national pediatric health care  and community providers in May 2008. CAICC and Sesame Street will be releasing the DVD at The Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers annual meeting in Bar Harbor Maine on May 14th. Plans are underway for CAICC to organize the “Helping Children Cope With Serious Illness Charitable Fund”. This fund will  donate a full time, hospital based, community focused nurse or social worker to provide continuous health counseling for families facing serious illness within 3 children’s hospitals in the first two years of operation.

Care Support of America:
Care Support of America continues to develop, market and evaluate a direct- to- consumer, affordable, proven, eldercare health counseling program called “Your Support Nurse” , (yoursupportnurse.com ) available nationwide.  Linking an experienced, specially trained Support Nurse on the telephone with local home care nurses providing home safety assessments, “Your Support Nurse” is gaining attention in the marketplace as well as in the healthcare arena.
An example of high engagement philanthropy on many levels, Care Support of America’s ”Your Support Nurse”  is making available to the public a proven product of care coordination and therapeutic health counseling by utilizing expert  marketing, advertising, sales, technology, and operational services. This RN health counseling program is contributing an operational knowledge base to the field of nursing and working in collaboration with physician practices and organizations as well as family caregiver, chaplain, homecare, private duty and other consumer groups nationwide.

Sincerely,
V. Beth Liebich
Program Director - Medical Affairs