• VALUES

  Care Coordination Central (CCC) strives for functional system integration to promote health, health equity, and value in health care through its support of care coordination. We value diversity of opinion, culture, age, gender, profession and practice as engines of creativity, resourcefulness, and resilience within communities. CCC is guided by the framework of the Collective Impact Model to facilitate nimble adaptation and sustained change.

• MISSION

  The goal of the Care Coordination Central (CCC) is to facilitate cooperation and networking among care coordinators who together advance practice and improve access to quality, coordinated, and cost-effective services for community members. CCC serves all professionals who coordinate care or manage referrals for patients with actual and potential health and social needs within Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma, Ouray, San Juan, and San Miguel counties. The purpose CCC is to merge community capital, knowledge, ideas and innovation, and evaluation to advance care coordination practices.

• VISION

  Coordinated care for all individuals in Southwestern Colorado and access patient-centered, high-quality, and cost-effective health care and social support.

Care Coordination Goals:

• • Reduce emergency room visits
  • Avoid hospital admissions (disease-specific & overall)
  • Decrease mortality (disease-specific & overall)
  • Improve short-term clinical outcomes (e.g. glycated hemoglobin levels for patients with diabetes)
  • Increase functional status (e.g. for patients with congestive heart failure)
  • Enhance quality of life promoting other patient outcomes (e.g. less missed school days due to illness)
  • Improve treatment adherence
  • Promote service adherence (e.g. remaining in contact with mental health services)