Take care of your health while pursuing treatment for chronic illnesses in Missouri and Kansas
What is Comprehensive Disease Management?
Comprehensive Disease Management (CDM) is a completely free, proactive approach that guides you or a loved one through the complex journey of living with a serious illness.
CDM, which includes palliative care, provides foundational support for families through emotional, stressful, and difficult times. The goal of CDM is to improve your chronic and/or life-limiting illness and quality of life, while also providing resources for the entire family.
Who is CDM for?
CDM is a valuable service for children and adults experiencing medical complexity, a significant diagnosis, multiple co-morbidities, and other challenging circumstances that require a higher level of care coordination and advocacy.
Paige
Thanks to Phoenix, my grandma regained her strength, health, and ability to manage daily activities. We’re so grateful!
Christy
My experience with Phoenix has been wonderful. They make setup easy and even handle all the talks with insurance.
CDM Services
What services are available through CDM?
Inspired by Florence Nightingale’s legacy of compassion and dignity, we take a relationship-based approach to your complete care needs.
- Setting care goals
- Collaboration with physicians
- Coordinating and optimizing care
- Educating on available resources
- Delivering practical and emotional support
- Navigating complex medical decisions
- Minimizing disease progression
- Incorporating tools for self-management
How are CDM services paid for?
Comprehensive Disease Management is completely free for any patient who qualifies. You do not need to be receiving other Phoenix services to benefit from CDM.
The impact of individualized care with CDM services
- Better quality of life
- Increased comfort
- More time spent with family
- Pain and symptom relief
- Decreased emergency visits
- Reduced hospitalizations and falls
Access vital care resources with CDM services
Caregivers of a loved one with a chronic or life-limiting illness often need help finding and utilizing resources. Our team helps patients and their families connect to and qualify for community resources, including Medicare and Medicaid services.
Advance care planning
When you’re caring for a loved one with a chronic illness, planning ahead is important. Thorough advance care planning is essential to ensure your loved one is well cared for throughout their journey when living with a life-limiting illness. Completing Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) paperwork and end-of-life advance directives provides peace of mind for the entire family. Phoenix assists with a variety of advanced care planning strategies, including completion of DPOA papers and disease-specific advance directives.
The financial benefits of CDM services
When our experts establish your chronic disease management plan, they will identify a number of ways to keep your loved one safer as their disease progresses. In turn, you’ll likely reduce the occurrence of avoidable medical expenses such as emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Call Phoenix Home Care & Hospice for more information about how comprehensive disease management can help you or your loved one.Ask us about our experiential packages!
Comprehensive Disease Management FAQs
Who should be referred for Comprehensive Disease Management?
CDM services are effective for patients in the following circumstances:
- Medical complexity
- Significant diagnosis
- New diagnosis
- Multiple co-morbidities
- Functional dependency
- Multiple hospitalizations
- Several providers of care
- Psychological and social upheaval
- Unmanaged pain and symptoms
- Unexpected changes, including falls, weight loss, change in appetite, increase in somnolence, significant change in condition
Can children and young adults receive CDM services?
Children and young adults (pediatric patients) can benefit from our Comprehensive Disease Management program. CDM for pediatric patients also includes palliative care services.
Does CDM provide hands-on care?
Each Phoenix client is assigned a nurse navigator and medical social worker for the emotional and educational support families need. However, our nurses do not provide hands-on care. Learn more about additional Phoenix services that can meet your care needs.
Does Comprehensive Disease Management include palliative care services?
CDM includes a palliative care component to help you or a loved one with pain and symptom management.
Is Comprehensive Disease Management the same as hospice?
CDM services are not the same as hospice services. A physician may recommend hospice when a patient no longer wishes to seek aggressive treatment for a life-limiting illness, whereas chronic disease management patients may continue to seek treatment.
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