Support Services
Support Services are support focused services or capabilities designed to meet specific support needs of patients based on the support services' criteria. These services may or not be integrated with the patient's care plan or with a Care Management Program. The criteria includes risk scores, episode, health conditions, Care Management Programs enrollment and health determinants. These are support services typically provided by community and social services to address non-medical determinants. These support services are arranged and coordinated by providers to their attributed patient populations to improve health outcomes.
See which Support Services work.
Contents
- 1 Caregiver Support
- 2 Community Health Worker
- 3 Community and Social Services
- 4 Employment Support
- 5 Financial Counseling
- 6 Home Support
- 7 Housing Support
- 8 Legal Support
- 9 Medication Support
- 10 Nutrition Support
- 11 Prison to Community Transitions
- 12 Social Workers
- 13 Support Communities
- 14 Transportation
Caregiver Support
- Education
- Respite Care
- Family Caregiver certification
See Caregiver Support Examples
Community Health Worker
- Address Social Determinants of Health
See Community Health Worker Examples
Community and Social Services
- Legal Assistance
- Programs - Smoking Cessation Programs, Alcohol Anonymous
- Food pantries, housing and utilities subsidies
- Program called Health Leads helps patients fill basic resource needs such as housing, transportation, food, and education by assigning student volunteers to work as advocates on their behalf. (3/24/16)
- Feds Funding Effort To Tie Medical Services To Social Needs (1/7/16)
See Community and Social Services Examples
Employment Support
- Joblessness
See Employment Support Examples
Financial Counseling
- Disability or Medicaid Applications
- Medication discount programs
- Debt, financial constraints
- Understanding complex medical bills and payment
See Financial Counseling Services Examples
See Financial Counseling Examples
Home Support
- Cleaning, maintenance, repairs
- Delivery services
- Technology Support - In home set-up, training and repair
See Home Support Services Examples
Housing Support
- Homelessness - temporary housing or shelters
- Utilities and housing subsidies
See Housing Support Examples
Legal Support
See Legal Support Examples
Medication Support
- Drug Discount Programs
- In-home Medicine reconciliation
- Pharmacist support
- Medication Adherence - reminders,electronic pill boxes
- Medicine home delivery
See Medication Support Examples
Nutrition Support
- Registered dietitians
- Education and cooking instructions and classes
- Assess/triage eating disorders and other barriers (i.e., financial, access to fresh food) preventing healthy nutrition
- Meals on Wheels
- Food banks
See Nutrition Support Examples
Prison to Community Transitions
- Helping jail involved trasition
- Helping Prison Population transition
See Prison to Community Transitions Examples
Social Workers
See Social Workers Examples
Support Communities
See Support Communities Examples
Transportation
- Rides to physician offices or other need services
See Transportation Examples