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Scaling Up: Bringing the Transitional Care Model into the Mainstream

Elderly, chronically ill people experience frequent changes in health status that require transitions among health care providers and settings. This issue brief describes two projects that identified the essential elements of effective care management interventions for this population and the facilitators of translating one such intervention, the Transitional Care Model (TCM), into mainstream practice. Together these projects demonstrate that successful translation of the TCM, which incorporates both in-person contact and a nurse-led, interdisciplinary team approach, can effectively interrupt patterns of frequent rehospitalizations, reduce costs, and improve patient health status. Findings from these projects inform challenges that must be overcome to facilitate the translation of effective care management innovations into mainstream practice.

 

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Mary D. Naylor, Director, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

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Mary D. Naylor and Julie A. Sochalski, Scaling Up: Bringing the Transitional Care Model into the Mainstream (Commonwealth Fund, Nov. 2010).