December 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center refined and evaluated the Community Resource Connection, an administrative system that identified health care needs among elderly patients and linked them to appropriate services.
May 1, 2006
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Program Result
For 10 years (1994–2004), the HMO Workgroup on Care Management published recommendations on, and highlighted opportunities and challenges in, care management practices for chronically ill older patients under capitated arrangements.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
California Pacific Medical Center evaluated a program called the Identification and Early Intervention Program for At-Risk Seniors, which sought to identify high-risk non-hospitalized seniors before a crisis arose that would have forced a hospital stay.
June 1, 2006
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Program Result
From 1992 through 2002, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded Building Health Systems for People With Chronic Illnesses.
June 8, 2006
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Program Result
Albert Einstein Health Care Network developed, implemented and evaluated the Personal Care Partnership Program - an integrated acute and long-term care program for chronically ill, low-income, elderly individuals living in personal care homes.
June 8, 2006
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Program Result
The Community Coalition for Long Term Care - a coalition of Monroe (N.Y.) county agencies, BlueCross/BlueShield, local health care providers and advocacy organizations - conducted a demonstration project to develop and implement Continuing Care Networks.
October 1, 2006
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Program Result
A report by a task force of the American Geriatrics Society outlined a set of goals and recommendations for improving care for older Americans.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health studied Elder Health, a for-profit managed-care provider in Baltimore, Md., that serves individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (i.e., dually eligible).
January 29, 2002
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Program Result
Samaritan Hospice, located in Moorestown, N.J., started the SOLO Live Alone Program to provide in-home services to elderly patients without resident caregivers in Camden, Burlington, Gloucester and Mercer counties.
July 1, 2002
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Program Result
A consortium of four nonprofit provider organizations worked to design a community-based program at low-income housing sites in Baltimore that would provide medical and social services to elderly residents who were not yet frail.
