Become A Site

Thanks to generous funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation, our goal now is to make medication management a national standard of practice in care management programs for frail elders. We look forward to assisting organizations who would like to adopt this innovative and effective program. We feel that the effort of collecting a comprehensive medication list should be used for the benefit of each client's health and safety.

Benefits to becoming a medication management site:

Beyond to clients and improved regulatory compliance on client safety,
Consultation to adapt the intervention for your agency's needs
Comprehensive education and training for staff on medication use and problems among older adults;
Detailed manuals, protocols, and handouts on medication management;
Use of a modestly-priced, secure on-line medication risk screening and management tool; and
National prominence as part of the vanguard in bringing this AoA evidence-based disease prevention program to your organization.

Because implementing medication management is a significant change in practice, we recommend timing and planning its initiation carefully. We have partnered with the National Council on Aging (NCOA) to create a tool that assesses an organization’s readiness to undertake this change. It is based on research that has shown that there are two dimensions to this readiness – the willingness of people at all levels of the organization to do what it takes to reach and sustain new goals and also the capacity, in terms of resources and systems.

The readiness tool takes about 15 minutes to complete if you are prepared with certain information. After completing the tool, you will see a report on your results. Partners in Care will also receive the report and will contact you about your interest in the project. People find that completing the tool is well worth their time and that the report is very interesting and useful.

If you would like to test your readiness to implement the MMIS, please take a moment to collect the following information and then click through to the tool, which is hosted by NCOA. Click here for a printable version of the information below.

What is the maximum number of clients your program/agency can serve per month (i.e. what would you consider to be a full caseload) _____

How many clients were served PER MONTH, on average, over the past 3 months:________

Number of supervisors: ________

Number of total care management staff: ________

# RNs: ________

# LVN/LPN: ________

# MSWs: ________

# other Master’s level staff: ________

# other care managers: ________

% turnover experienced for care managers (including supervisors) in the last year: ________

If your agency serves Medicaid waiver clients, how many slots are allocated to your waiver program: ________

Note: If your agency is not a Medicaid waiver site, please interpret any reference to 'Medicaid waiver site' or 'Medicaid waiver clients' in the survey as your 'own agency' and 'total number of clients' your agency can serve.

CLICK HERE to take a 15 minute survey to help determine your readiness to participate as a MMIS site.