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NCCC-AHA Announce New Chronic Care Collaboration

The National Chronic Care Consortium and American Hospital Association have announced a new collaboration to provide additional services and resources to AHA members who are working to better serve the largest, highest cost, and fastest growing segment of the health care delivery system--people with chronic conditions (such as diabetes, heart failure, lung disease, and Alzheimer's, and for the frail elderly, any combination of these conditions).

This AHA-NCCC collaboration brings together two leadership organizations to enhance their collective ability to find real world solutions to problems of chronic illness care. The AHA and NCCC have a common goal: to enable providers who serve individuals with chronic illness-either at the same time or in sequence to one another-to prevent, delay, or minimize disease and disability progression across time.

The collaboration has been designed to assist health care leaders in keeping the pulse of issues in chronic illness care in several ways, such as special monthly supplements to NCCC's CareLink publication, a series of teleconferences that will focus on issues of chronic care delivery, and an Industry Trends briefing paper.

For more information, contact NCCC.