It’s a New Health Care Environment

Chronic not episodic conditions are the biggest threats to population health, accounting for over 75% of total health care spending in the US. Chronic care improvement will dominate health care in the 21st Century.

Profiling and P4P are Transforming Health Careæ

Public and private health care purchasers and plans are profiling and benchmarking physician practices and hospitals--and public reporting of provider performance is expanding. Private health plans are joining the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in expanding pay-for-performance (P4P) and pay-for-improvement reimbursement.

Medical Home & Chronic Care Improvement Models are Expanding

The American Academy of Family Physician’s medical home and chronic care improvement model is being widely embraced by physicians, payers and health plans. This offers an expanded role for nurses working in health system, physician practice, and hospital care settings.

Chronic Care Requires a New Interdisciplinary Practice Model

Whether practicing in clinics, hospitals or health plans, the new health care environment requires nurses who can build on the nursing care model to assume new roles as members of the new interdisciplinary chronic care team. However, both the Institute of Medicine, the World Health Organization, the International Council of Nurses recognize that this requires a new set of competencies for today's nurses.

Chronic Care Professional (CCP) Certification

Since 2004, CCP Certification has helped professionals, teams, and organizations adapt and apply innovations and best practices in population health improvement, chronic care improvement, evidence-based medical care, patient partnering, behavior change facilitation and health promotion and coaching. Learn More.