Comprehensive Care Management

Comprehensvie Care Management or CCM, is a not for profit company that uses the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program. It serves the New York metropolitan area, including Westchester County and the New York City boroughs of The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

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).

Services
In return for the fixed amount of money per person per month, CCM is responsible for all the health and health-related services for individuals who are deemed "nursing home eligible" by New York State standards, which means that they must require, long term, some regular assistance with some aspects of their lives

CCM provides 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 that works with the individual and his or her family in care planning and monitoring. Primary services are provided in an integrated care care setting with physician, nurse, social workers and therapists on site (the PACE Center). The resident may attend the PACE Center anywhere from rarely to seven days a week, depending on their care plan.