The Advanced Care Project

Statement from Bill Novelli and Tom Koutsoumpas

Co-Chairs, Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC

June 11, 2013

Today we are announcing a major new initiative – the Advanced Care Project –in partnership with the AHIP Foundation’s Institute for Health Systems Solutions (IHSS).

The Project brings together health systems, health plans, employers, faith-based leaders and other experts to identify and analyze effective clinical programs and payment models that improve care quality and patient/family satisfaction. The purpose is to establish best practice models in advanced illness care and to actively promote these results for adoption throughout the U.S.

Acting on patient and family choices and decisions depends on having care systems in place that allow those choices to be followed. System innovations are beginning to change the health care landscape for patients with advanced illness, providing alternatives to the current fragmented care system.  The Advanced Care Project will document and accelerate this process across the country.

This is an exciting and critical phase in transforming case for seriously ill patients. The Project will build on proven, effective systems of care in order to improve advanced illness care for millions of Americans and to lower costs of care as a result. This is a major step toward achieving the C-TAC goal: that all Americans with advanced illness, especially the sickest and most vulnerable, will receive comprehensive, high-quality, person-and family-centered care that is consistent with their goals and values and honors their dignity.

To learn more about the Advanced Care Project, contact Jon Broyles at [email protected].

 

About the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care: C-TAC is a non-profit, non-partisan alliance of patient and consumer advocacy groups, health care professionals and providers, private sector stakeholders, faith-based organizations and health care payers. Its mission is to transform advanced illness care by empowering consumers, changing the health delivery system, improving public and private policies and enhancing provider capacity.

About the AHIP Foundation’s Institute for Health Systems Solutions: At the Institute for Health Systems Solutions (IHSS), we believe market-oriented and government health systems can improve the quality, affordability, and availability of American health care. IHSS is focused on advancing solution-oriented thought leadership that promotes a more sustainable health care system by considering views from a diverse group of engaged experts, authors, and thought leaders with wide-ranging knowledge and practical insights. This approach to analyzing issues creates space for balanced solutions to emerge.  For more information, visit: www.healthsystemssolutions.org.