Transcend the Walls of your Health Care Settings
Overview
Integrated Care Certification focuses on assessing how well clinical care partners, such as physician practices, ambulatory clinics, hospitals and nursing care centers, communicate, collaborate and coordinate with one another to provide patient-centered, clinically integrated care, treatment, and services to their patient population. The certification evaluates planning for clinical integration, including information sharing/exchange, patient handoffs, care planning, and performance measurement and improvement that spans the continuum of the clinical partners’ care, treatment, and service offerings.
Benefits
Achieving Integrated Care Certification can help leaders facilitate transparent communication through system information sharing, transitions of care, hand-off communications and other key activities to help ensure a patient’s care, treatment, and services across the care continuum. Integrated Care Certification can strengthen your commitment to clinically integrated care by helping to:
- Foster collaboration
- Highlight risk sharing
- Reduce adverse events
- Promote patient centeredness
- Identify and reduce redundancy
Learn how the first organization to be certified used Integrated Care Certification (ICC) as a framework for achieving clinical integration.
Eligibility for Participation
The components providing clinically integrated care could be offered in any of the following health care settings:
- Hospitals
- Critical access hospitals
- Freestanding psychiatric hospitals
- Freestanding or hospital-based ambulatory centers
- Physician or other clinical practices
- Nursing care centers
- Home care organizations
- Behavioral Health Care and Human Services
Roadmap to Integrated Care Certification
Interested and wondering where to begin? We have outlined a few steps to help you streamline your journey and determine if your organization is ready to apply.
Pricing
Pricing is determined by the number of sites reviewed for your organization. Cost for certification includes both an on-site and annual fee.
To learn more about pricing information specific to your organization, contact us.
How to Apply
When you have assembled your team, assessed your readiness and reviewed the standards, it’s time to apply for Integrated Care Certification. Plan ahead by submitting your application six to eight months before your desired review date.