Partners in Care Joins with Independent Living Systems to Develop Care Management Programs
Joint Venture to Offer Patient-Centered Care Management Programs including Care Transition Interventions for Health Plans, Hospitals and Medical Groups.
- (1888PressRelease) September 01, 2010 - Partners in Care Foundation, Inc., (Partners) today announced an agreement to form a joint venture with Independent Living Systems (ILS) to develop Care Transition Programs using the ILS post acute support system (PASS™). These programs are designed to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions and unnecessary permanent placements into nursing homes and are built around the intervention proven successful in recent national pilots.
Together Partners and ILS will integrate the Partners HomeMeds(sm) medication management system into PASS™ and into other ILS care management services. These services also feature Benefits Check-Up, the online screening service for
seniors developed by the National Council on Aging, to assist in arranging other needed services for frail or disabled persons.
HomeMeds(sm) medication management system is designed to address important safety and quality of life issues, medication-related problems and errors endanger the lives and well-being of a high percentage of community-dwelling elders, leaving them with poorly controlled cardiac symptoms, or at risk for falls, dizziness, confusion, or other side effects. Care managers use software and a pharmacist consultant to screen their clients' medications for potentially harmful problems and bring these problems to the attention of their physicians.
Partners will also offer other ILS Care Management Programs such as its high risk population care management program that offers individualized assessments, care plans and care management to high risk populations. These capabilities and care transition interventions are key elements of evolving patient-centered delivery systems including Medical Homes and
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) featured in the Health Care Reform Bill.
"We are excited to have this new relationship to establish our programs in California, a State that generally leads in implementation of innovative programs," said Josefina Carbonell, Executive VP of ILS and past Assistant Secretary for Aging for HHS. "Working with Partners will expand our capability to help provide the quality of health and life that elders deserve, and to demonstrate that patient centered programs are effective both in a managed care and fee for service environment."
"This collaboration will help us to develop and implement the disruptive innovations needed for the new health care system," remarked June Simmons, CEO of Partners. "We can build on evidenced based programs used by ILS and their IT systems to implement important programs in a few weeks instead of over months and years."
About Partners in Care Foundation
Partners in Care (Partners) is a 501c(3) non-profit center of innovation whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for shaping a new vision of health care by partnering with organizations, families and community leaders in the work of changing health care systems, changing communities and changing lives. Partners was founded in 1997 and is based in San Fernando, California.
For more information, please visit: www.picf.org.
About Independent Living Systems
Independent Living Systems (ILS) is a management services company, founded in 2001, focused on introducing managed care to the delivery of long term care and administering care to populations that are frail, disabled have chronic diseases and other special care needs. The company has developed significant capabilities in case and disease management, nutrition, and social services.
For more information, please visit www.ilshealth.com.
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