Designing and implementing a care coordination strategy that facilitates and ensures stability outside of traditional medical settings has the potential to increase patient satisfaction and improve health outcomes while decreasing the number of costly and unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations. To better understand the current care coordination environment, Meals on Wheels America and Aetna set out to examine numerous care coordination strategies currently in use across the country. Demystifying Care Coordination explores promising practices and approaches to care coordination, as well as challenges that need to be addressed to facilitate successful scaling and wider adoption. This report:

• Examines the varied definitions of care coordination used among those serving high-risk populations;
• Highlights different care coordination models currently in use among transition care and community-based care providers;
• Describes key goals, principles and elements present in each care coordination model; and
• Identifies promising practices and challenges from each model that may be used to further develop and scale a widespread approach to care coordination.

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