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The Power of Three: Collaboration Can Help Stroke Survivors Return to Independence

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Success Stories

Although stroke related deaths has decreased substantially in the last few decades, research suggest that acute ischemic stroke hospitalizations rates have increased, as well as stroke risk factors and the prevalence of people who have three to four risk factors. Three agencies in Colorado- the Colorado Visiting Nurse Association (CVNA), Easter seals Colorado and Project …

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Local CBO Learns to Balance its Mission with Business Acumen

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Success Stories

The San Francisco Institute on Aging (IOA) began  in 1985 as a nonprofit providing multiple services to older adults, and is best known for its Friendship Line, a volunteer-staffed suicide prevention hotline serving older adults.  With federal funding for discretionary programs on the decline, IOA has pursued additional opportunities in demonstrating the value of these …

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A Right-Minded Partnership Focuses on Healing in Community

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Success Stories

This Aging and Disability Business Institute article highlights the enduring relationship between Senior’s Resource Center (SRC) and the Lutheran Medical Center. These Denver, Colo. based centers initiated a pilot partnership that sought out to help older adults suffering from chronic heart failure, avoid hospital readmissions, and to transition successfully back to their communities. The pilot …

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NCOA’s Roadmap to Community Integrated Health Care

- Marissa Whitehouse, National Council on Aging
Categories: Build Your Network, Get Started, Understand the Landscape

The National Council on Aging’s (NCOA) Center for Healthy Aging is honored to serve as a partner with n4a’s Aging & Disability Business Institute (Business Institute) and contribute the important work of assisting community-based organizations (CBOs) to successfully adapt to a changing health care environment, enhance their organizational capacity, and capitalize on emerging opportunities to diversify funding. …

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Transportation Undergirds Health Care

- Virginia Dize, Co-Director of the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center
Categories: Get Started

In any given year, 3.6 million individuals miss or delay medical appointments due to a lack of available and affordable transportation.[i] For individuals with chronic health care needs, such as cancer or kidney failure, not having access to transportation to go to the doctor or clinic can result in re-hospitalization, nursing home placement…even death. Furthermore, …

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Post-Hospital Respite Program Gives Frail Homeless Elders a Safe Place to Recover

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Success Stories

This Aging and Disability Business Institute article features the inspiring story of Bay Area Community Services (BACS), a community-based organization (CBO) in Oakland, California that is leveraging its business acumen training to partner with a large health care system to provide critical post-hospital supports and services to homeless individuals, a particularly complex and difficult-to-engage patient …

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Five Key Factors for Successful Health Care & CBO Partnerships

- Brent Feorene, Health Care Consultant
Categories: Uncategorized

The increasing prevalence of value-based arrangements places providers at risk for not only cost, but also quality and outcomes. This movement from paying for activity to paying for results has forced providers in value-based arrangements to carefully consider factors such as cost, access, quality, care delivery efficacy and coordination throughout the entire continuum. With some …

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Business Institute and Collaborative Consulting Launch New Readiness Assessment Tool for CBOs

- Lori Peterson, Collaborative Consulting
Categories: Get Started

TO ACCESS THE READINESS ASSESSMENT, CLICK HERE   In our work over the past several years, we have experienced first-hand the potential that the design and implementation of effective cross-sector partnerships have in creating a better system of health. These partnerships, bringing together community based organizations (CBOs) and healthcare providers and payers are resulting in …

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University Group Fosters Integrated Care Collaborations in New Hampshire

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Success Stories

University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability (IOD) was invited by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and the Administration on Community Living  to join the Trailblazer Learning Collaborative because of its designation as a University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service (UCEDD). Laura Davie, director, and Melissa …

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Ability360: Fostering Growth, While Preserving a Service Culture of Dignity and Respect

- Aging and Disability Business Institute
Categories: Success Stories

For over 30 years, Ability360, Arizona’s largest independent living center, based out of Phoenix, has offered and promoted programs designed to empower people with disabilities to take personal responsibility so that they may achieve or continue independent lifestyles within the community. Over the years, Ability360 has been proactive about strategically positioning itself to pursue, and ultimately …

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