Care Partners
2018 NACo Achievement Award Winner
Alameda County, Calif., CA
Best In Category
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About the Program
Category: Health (Best in Category)
Year: 2018
Care Partners is a collaboration between Alameda County Health Care Services Agency (HCSA), Social Services Agency (SSA) and community-based organizations, designed to address racial and cultural disparities in access to end of life planning and care among the County’s low income older adult population. To this end, SSA social workers and HCSA public health nurses partner with staff from Comfort Homesake (A professional advocacy and training organization) and the Alameda Co. Hospice Providers Coalition to: Identify and train In Home Support Services (IHSS) Chore Providers to become allies in initiating conversations that increase advance health care planning activities and hospice utilization among the terminally ill clients they serve. Care Partners provides direct support to IHHS consumers with serious illnesses to make decisions about their healthcare treatment wishes through discussion, planning and documentation; and health care coordination services for the seriously ill, that connect the dots between health care experiences and health care wishes.