PACE® Featured in New York Times Blog
Jane Gross, who writes the New York Times Blog, "The New Old Age," wrote a great profile of PACE in her blog on January 8. We hope many people interested in PACE and in new approaches to providing care to our nation's seniors will take the time to read this article and join the discussion.
PACE® Featured in USA Today Article
PACE was featured in an article by Andrea Pitzer in the Life section of USA Today on November 17. The article highlighted the ability of PACE to keep participants out of nursing homes. The article provided a description of the program and interviews with staff and participants at Elder Service Plan of the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NPA Shared Services Programs
NPA has established partnerships in support of PACE organizations' participant information, pharmacy benefit management, and claims processing system needs. NPA's shared services programs create sufficient demand for information systems and business process outsourcing options that would not otherwise be available or affordable for individual PACE organizations. NPA works collaboratively with its partners to improve the quality and appropriateness of these services for its members.
Through a strategic partnership with CommonWealth Purchasing Group, NPA members may participate in a group purchasing program for community-based, not-for-profit health and human services organizations that offer members significant savings on an array of supplies, services, and products.
NPA members may also take advantage of an array of insurance products through our partnership with Aon, including property and casualty, workers compensation, and directors and officers liability.
NPA members may click here for additional information.
PACE® Approved as Evidenced Based Model of Care
PACE has been approved by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as an evidenced based model of care and placed on the National Registry of Evidenced Based Programs and Practices web site. SAMSHA recently began reviewing models of care for the elderly and PACE is one of the first to be recognized on the NREPP web site.
Click here for an NREPP print logo that can be used on intervention materials. It is important to note that the review of interventions and their posting on the NREPP web site do not constitute an endorsement, promotion, or approval of these interventions by NREPP or SAMHSA.
PACE® Program Could Prolong Seniors' Ability to Live Independently
As the baby boomer generation faces retirement, there is a heightened interest in the best ways to care for older adults and prolong their abilities to live independently. A new study published in The Milbank Quarterly looks at seniors' abilities to perform essential daily functions after entering the PACE program.
"The objective of PACE is to enable individuals to live independently in the community and with a high quality of life," said Dana Mukamel, Ph.D., lead study author and a senior fellow at the Center for Health Policy Research, University of California. "Maintaining or improving function is important in enabling frail elderly individuals to do so."
The average PACE program participant is 80 years old. Study data showed that at three months, 61% of enrollees reported no decline in functional skills and by 12 months, 43.3% still reported no decline. Study authors consider the slower rate of decline an important factor in the ability to prolong independent living.
PACE® Nationally Showcased as Innovative Care Delivery Model
Living Independently for Elders (LIFE) of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has been selected as one of 24 care delivery models to showcase the innovation underway at healthcare organizations nationwide. The models selected share common features, such as creating new roles for nursing, leveraging new technologies, and engaging healthcare consumers and their caregivers in care planning and delivery. A complete profile of LIFE-UPenn has been published on the Innovative Care Models web site.
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