Maui PACE

PACE, the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, provides patient-centered and coordinated care to frail elderly individuals living in the community, including people with both Medicare and Medicaid. The PACE program is already serving beneficiaries in a number of urban areas, and is now expanding into rural America.

The PACE program establishes a managed care model which is based upon early intervention, screening, secondary prevention, and family and participant education, linked to an inpatient and outpatient home-based delivery system which has shown to improve health status and significantly reduce hospital days and emergency room care. The model provides families with continuous, ongoing support by providing the elder enrollee with proactive health care management. Respite care, nursing home, and hospitalization are all covered in the program under one consolidated reimbursement system which utilizes home- and community-based services to enhance primary care to the PACE participant and their family.

Hale Makua is one of 14 organizations in the United States to receive funding and risk sharing from the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop a rural Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) for Maui. Hale Makua anticipates having Maui PACE operational by October 2008. For more information please call 808-442-4551.

CMS Grant Press Release

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