$700,000 Challenge Grant payable over two years beginning in 2015
The Institute to Advance Home-Centered Care, is a collaboration of Cadence Health with VNA Healthcare (VNA), HomeCare Physicians (HCP) and other key strategic partners to create an innovative Aurora-based model of home-centered care delivery to support some of the area’s most medically complex patients. The Institute will partner with one or more technology companies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of home-centered care and to create a shared electronic communication platform supporting dialogue and information exchange between all members of the care team, including the family.
The existing VNA HouseCalls model (serving 12,000 individuals since 2003) and the HCP physicians’ model will continue during the first year of the initiative and will be greatly expanded over the grant period. It is the hope of the Institute that this initiative will be adopted by other healthcare providers as a nationally recognized model for excellent home-centered care.