The Coordinating Center Career Opportunities

Mission:

The mission of The Coordinating Center is to partner with families, children and all people with special health care needs and disabilities and those who support them in the community, to achieve their aspirations for independence, health, inclusion, dignity and quality of life.

About Us:

Founded in 1983 as The Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care, Inc., (CCHCC) this non profit corporationwas first organized as a consortium and was initially funded by a federal Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB) Special Projects of Regional and National Significance (SPRANS) grant. The purpose of this grant was to develop a care coordination model designed to effect the transition from hospital to home of children who were then hospitalized with complex medical diagnoses requiring ventilator support.

The Coordinating Center's prototype model for care coordination reflected the most valued characteristics of our current system, including

* Family and person centered practice
* Comprehensive, holistic perspective
* Multidisciplinary team function
* Community resource utilization
* Fiscal and resource efficiency

After nearly 25 years of service to the community the organization’s values remain as trust, family and person centered philosophy, diversity, integrity, quality, creativity, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership. The core philosophy is characterized by a commitment to partnering with the person, family members, caregivers, providers and other support persons in the community in a dynamic collaborative process. Coordinating Center staff members recognize the unique ways in which people inform their environments and express their own values and vision. Our system, proven over time, yet responsive to change, results in an environment that is supportive of the person while remaining respectful of the need to conserve health care resources.

Care Coordination facilitates coordination in the community and functions in both privately and publicly funded arenas. Care Coordination and Service Coordination is delivered through these programs:

* The Maryland Medicaid Model Waiver, the premier program for children with complex medical needs and disabilities
* The Maryland Rare and Expensive Case Management Program (REM), serving Medicaid eligible individuals of all ages who have the most challenging health care needs
* A collaborative program with Amerigroup (a Medicaid certified managed care organization) to provide care coordination to members with extraordinary medical needs.
* Living at Home Waiver program, which provides the mechanism to transition younger adults from nursing facilities to homes of their own in the community; the Housing Transition Office is part of this program at The Center.
* The Autism Waiver program, which provides necessary community services to children with sever autism at risk for institutionalization
* The Infants and Toddlers Program which provides for early intervention services for young children at risk for developmental delay.
* The ACCESS Group for Consultative Services offers consultations, assessments, technical assistance and training on the spectrum of issues associated with people with complex medical needs and disabilities; ACCESS is responsible for the dissemination of Coordinating Center publications and for implementing new grant funded projects.

Medical Legal Services provides life care planning, expert testimony, legal nurse consulting, vocational evaluations, and expertise with special needs trusts.

The Center’s core services are supported by:

* Information Systems, which manages the integrated computerized systems that are the basis for contracts management, data tracking, reporting and communications.
* Quality Improvement, which is accountable for customer satisfaction activities, ongoing evaluation of all programmatic activities at The Center, and for ensuring that effective quality indicators are the basis for ongoing measurement and quality reporting.
* All staff members bring creativity and commitment to a uniquely collaborative environment. Co-workers are noted for unparalleled preparation, experience and credentialing in their respective disciplines. * Staff members are primarily nurses and social workers with broad community expertise, as well as specialists in rehabilitation, early childhood, special education, rand resource development.

The Center’s care coordination functions are accredited by URAC, a nationally recognized accreditation organization. The Standards for Excellence is a program of Maryland Association of Non Profit Organizations that certifies non profits according to measures of ethical practices and accountability. The Center is certified under this program. The Coordinating Center, in addition to its non profit status is also a minority business enterprise. The organization holds memberships in the National Quality Forum and the World Association of Non Governmental Organizations.

Programs and Services:

The Coordinating Center coordinates all services that individuals with complex medical needs and disabilities must have to be fully included at home and in the community. We do this by partnering with individuals and families, health care and other service providers as well as funders in a dynamic program of comprehensive care coordination. This service is provided through our Care Management division, which also administers Maryland’s premier home health care program for children and adolescents, the Model Waiver.

We also offer care management through the Medical Assistance Rare and Expensive (REM) Case Management program. Service coordination is provided through the Living At Home Waiver for adults with physical disabilities, the Maryland Infants and Toddlers program, and the Autism Waiver. The Center is currently collaborating with Amerigroup managed care organization to provide care coordination to identified beneficiaries with extraordinary health concerns.

Our family and person centered approach characterizes all of our work that focuses on people with special health care needs. Through the Medical Legal Services division, we offer life care planning, expert testimony and related consultation nationally. The ACCESS Group provides training, technical assistance and consultation on a broad spectrum of issues concerning people with special health care needs.

Careers:

The Center is always interested in people with expertise in partnering with families and individuals with complex medical needs and disabilities. Potential co-workers must be committed to a person and family centered approach to coordination. We are looking for people who thrive in an atmosphere of challenge, who think creatively, who are flexible and who enjoy working in teams.