The National Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Council

Project Overview

The goal of the National Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Council was to promote peaceful dying and to bridge the gap between good advanced illness/end-of-life care and its practice. The NAICC accomplished this goal by developing, implementing and evaluating practical, affordable and immediately usable advanced illness coordinated care (AICCC) programs within health systems and health plans. The AICCC is affiliated with the Life Institute, VA Health Care Network, Upstate NY and Dartmouth Medical School.

AICCC programs use a nurse or medical social worker trained in standard models to support the physician and to provide psychosocial support for patients facing advanced illness and their families. The AICCC program is a six-visit intervention of structured conversations and specialized care coordination for patients with advanced illness and their families.

For more information contact:

Dan Tobin, M.D.
Director, Section of Palliative Care
The Life Institute/VA Health Care Network
113 Holland Avenue
Albany, NY 12208-0980
(518) 626-6087
Email: [email protected]

Web Site: www.coordinatedcare.net

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.