WOW Specialty Home Care Service for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness

Integrated Health Care (IHC) is a nurse-managed center of the College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago through which faculty nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists provide primary and mental healthcare services for people with serious mental illness in partnership with Thres...

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Published in:Home health care management & practice 2008-12, Vol.21 (1), p.23-32
Main Authors: Storfjell, Judith LLoyd, Brigell, Emily, Christiansen, Kathryn, McDevitt, Judith, Miller, Arlene, Snyder, Marsha, Pavick, Debra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access
Clinical outcomes
College faculty
Evidence-based nursing
Evidence-based practice
Experiential learning
Health care delivery
Health Care Services
Health services
Health status
Home Care
Home health care
Integrated care
Integrated services
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental Health Services
Mental Illness
Mentally ill people
Nurse led care
Nurse practitioners
Nurse specialists
Nurses
Nursing
Professional practice
Rehabilitation
Specialists
Teaching
Thresholds
Treatment Outcomes
Vulnerability
Walls
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Summary:Integrated Health Care (IHC) is a nurse-managed center of the College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago through which faculty nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists provide primary and mental healthcare services for people with serious mental illness in partnership with Thresholds, the leading freestanding psychiatric rehabilitation agency in Illinois with locations throughout metropolitan Chicago. This article describes a new project to increase access to IHC services and improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable, hard-to-reach Thresholds clients (called members) through an innovative combination of strategies to outreach beyond IHC's three clinic locations, including: house calls, group visits, and telemonitoring, IHC Without Walls (IHC WOW). As an academic nursing practice, we view IHC WOW as an opportunity to integrate teaching and evidence-based practice; accordingly our objectives include expansion of novice and advanced practice experiential learning within this innovative practice domain.
ISSN:1084-8223
1552-6739
DOI:10.1177/1084822308321611