Perspective: Enhancing Collaboration and Communication Between Medical and Community Settings
December 12, 2017
Anne Montgomery
As evidence accumulates on how community-based organizations (CBO) can cost effectively meet the medical and long-term care needs of older adults through supportive services, the importance of linking multiple data streams across settings becomes clear. But until recently, policy barriers hampered effective collaboration and communication between the healthcare sector and CBOs.
Read the full 12/11/2017 post at the American Society on Aging (ASA) website:
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Perspective
Anne Montgomery - MS
Program Director, Delivery System Transformation
Areas of Expertise- Long-Term Services and Supports
- Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act, and other programs
- Social Determinants of Health in Older Adults
Anne Montgomery develops policy and research initiatives that improve long-term services and supports and medical care for older adults receiving services from Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act, and other programs. She is co-leading efforts to implement and evaluate comprehensive culture change and quality improvement in nursing homes and is working with colleagues to develop a new volunteer-based Community Care Corps program at the national level. Anne conducts workforce policy analysis for home and community-based services (HCBS) and advises on how to expand models of community-based care for older adults requiring complex services.