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Community Alternatives Unlimited |
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A Casemanagement Agency Serving the North Side of
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Community Alternatives Unlimited |
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A Casemanagement Agency Serving the North Side of
Chicago |
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Corporate Info: Case Management...What Is It?The Definition & Functions: Case Management exists within a wide variety of organizations. Fundamentally, it is a collaborative process which attempts to achieve multiple outcomes, including quality care, cost containment and consumer empowerment. The process of case management is:
Types of Case Management: As is true in many fields, the field of case management has developed a language of its own. And as in other developing fields, the words - and sometimes their meanings - tend to change as services evolve. It is important to understand that we utilize terms as defined by payors in relation to specific services that are purchased. The following terms are used to describe the service of case management and its functions:
The Future: Currently, there is a growing trend toward managed care, a concept focusing on utilization and management for groups of people. Case management provides consumers with a “professional guide” because it transcends the parochial interests of clients, payors, and providers. Case management provides results in the following outcomes:
Human service reform and the changing population of service recipients are creating new challenges. Proactive use of case management will anticipate the needs, design solutions and facilitate changes that will result in benefits for the consumer, payors, and providers. Back to top
Service Hours Provided to Our Consumers from July 1999 Through June 2000:
MANDATED CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICESBOGARD: Case management as a result
of a class action lawsuit for
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 | For a period from July 1999 through June 2000, Community Alternatives has negotiated, authorized, and managed $2,168,232 of individual services to approximately 202 members of the Bogard class who reside in long-term care nursing facilities. |
| CAU serves in effect as the general contractor for the State with 20 different vendors that are paid bi-monthly and whose rates are individually negotiated. |
| CAU casemanagers have provided on-site assistance to members of the Bogard class. Almost 6,100 face-to-face contacts have been made to date. |
| Community Alternatives serves as the eyes and ears for 1089 consumers residing in the community who require support and individual monitoring as an added quality assurance and to assist with the overall stability of the consumer. |
| CAU casemanagers have provided approximately 4,514 face-to-face contacts.
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| Community Alternatives attempts to assure the appropriateness of residential settings by pre-screening their admission prior to placement. This fiscal year alone, CAU has assessed more than 358 consumers. |
| Further, CAU has assisted 109 individuals with developmental disabilities with moving into Community Integrated Living Arrangements (CILAs). CILAs are often considered to be more effective as well as lower cost alternatives when compared with state operated facilities. |
| For a period from July 1999 through June 2000, Community Alternatives has served approximately 1,487 pregnant women among 4,224 individuals. These women received medical services in doctor's offices rather than hospital emergency rooms. Prenatal care and high risk pregnancies were identified, thus leading to added benefits such as more effective health care, lower infant mortality and more effective services. Infant mortality is the lowest in the history of Chicago. Infant birth weights and child immunizations are on the rise.* |
| CAU received donations valued at more than $13,000 from Wilson Sporting Goods Corporation this past holiday season. Thanks to Wilson, CAU was able to distribute cribs, playpens, clothing, sporting goods and other toys to families who otherwise may have gone without them. |
* Ref: “Governor Announces Infant Mortality Rate Drops To Record Low For Third
Year In A Row,”
September 28, 1995 Press Release
| Community Alternatives is currently serving over 800 consumers in the Chicago metropolitan area whose primary need is an alternative place to live. Most of these requests require as much as two years to find an appropriate home. Many of these individuals have multiple needs including nursing, educational, job training, and mental health therapies. |
| CAU assisted 40 individuals with chronic and persistent mental illness in obtaining services such as psycho-therapy, residential placement, and job training. |
| Crisis case management is provided on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis. This year, in excess of 3,000 hours of crisis case management services have been provided to consumers who may be in danger and currently require immediate stabilization. During the last twelve months 2 individuals have been maintained in the community (i.e., deflected) rather than admitted into a state operated facility and at a cost often three times that of the community. |
| Community Alternatives provides service facilitation to 211 individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. Over $741,000 in individual services have been identified and provided to these consumers. In excess of 183 different vendors have been secured, contracted, and managed by our case managers. |