PACE Testimonial

Community Care’s unique programs help you live life on your terms. For Ann K., enrolling in a Community Care program was “a Godsend.”

A quadriplegic due to multiple sclerosis, Ann says, “If I wasn’t here and didn’t have the family support I do, I would be in a nursing home.” Community Care’s programs and support from her husband Tom have enabled Ann to enjoy the best of health care, to live at home, to take on important roles in her community and to spend time with people she enjoys.

Community Care provides a comprehensive program that offers alternatives to nursing home care: PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly). PACE serves people who reside in Milwaukee and in Waukesha (scheduled to open in 2009) counties. In the PACE program, participants see a Community Care staff doctor or a PACE community based physician.

“It is all encompassing, excellent care,” says Ann, who serves on the Community Care Board of Directors. “If someone in these programs has an ingrown toenail or a lump in the breast, they can be seen by a doctor right away. We have ready access to our doctors and nurses. Otherwise, it could take days, weeks even, to get it evaluated by a doctor.”

Community Care’s PACE Program offers comprehensive package of services coordinated through an interdisciplinary team. Participants receive all the services they would receive in nursing homes while remaining in their own homes. Many of the services are provide in our Adult Day Health Centers. One of the goals of these programs is to provide aggressive preventive care that maintains our participants’ health and avoids high-cost institutional care.

“With Community Care,” says Ann, “life is the very best it can be.”