Comprehensive Care Management

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Comprehensvie Care Management
Type	Not-for-profit
Founded	April 1985
Headquarters	Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Westchester
Industry	Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly
Website	[1]

Comprehensvie Care Management or CCM, a member of the Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, is designed to help severely disabled and frail eldelry people live as independently as possible by keeping them as healthy as possible.

CCM is a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program. It is the largest PACE program in the country. It serves the New York metropolitan area, including Westchester County and the New York City boroughs of The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

[edit] History

In the early 1980's Beth Abraham Health Services, a not-for-profit nursing facility, was the first organization in the country to try and replicate a program in San Francisco designed specifically to help frail elderly people avoid having to live in nursing facilities. It called its program CCM, or Comprehensive Care Management. CCM, also a not-for-profit corporation, combines an adult day center with medical care and home care and a fixed per member per month payment (called a capitation payment).

[edit] How it works

In return for the fixed amount of money per member per month, CCM is responsible for all the health and health-related services its Members require.

[edit] What CCM provides

CCM provides all needed health services, including: comprehensive acute and long term care, including primary and specialty medical care, home care, emergency services, nursing, social services, physical, occupational and speech therapy, day care, emergency alarms, medical supplies and equipment, pharmaceuticals, health-related transportation, and hospital and nursing home care. Each patient has an interdisciplinary team with a physician, nurse and social worker. The team continually works with the Member and his or her family in care planning and monitoring. CCM is responsible for responding to any health problem around the clock. Primary services are provided primarily in an integrated care care setting with physician, nurse, social workers and therapists on site (the PACE Center). Members may attend the PACE Center anywhere from rarely to seven days a week, depending on their care plan. Care planning is individualized, with the clinical team knowing each Member (and his or her family) well. Mmebers must use providers authorized by the care team.

CCM began serving patients in April 1985, and began operations on a capitated basis in February 1992. It now serves over 2,000 patients in five counties in the New York metropolitain Area.

All CCM programs serve only individuals who are deemed "nursing home eligible" by New York State standards, which menas that they must require, long term, some regular assistance with some aspects of their lives.