Kaiser Permanente fuels Tri-City Health Center's PHASE Plus program with a $15,000 grant award.

May 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes Everyday (PHASE) is Kaiser Permanente’s population-based approach to ensure comprehensive secondary prevention of atherosclerosis in patients with chronic diseases. The TCHC PHASE Plus program is an extension of Kaiser Permanente’s PHASE approach, integrating chronic care management model to improve overall wellness for patients diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes.

The TCHC PHASE Plus program will promote comprehensive secondary prevention of atherosclerosis to 100 hypertensive patients with a likely co-morbidity of diabetes by providing proven preventive medications, achieving control of their key risk factors, integrated health consultations, and wellness education. The TCHC program is designed to teach patients to better manage their disease in their everyday lives, while providing them with vital medical care. This integrated chronic case management along with behavioral health process will help patients gain knowledge in order to cope with and control their disease and improve future health outcomes.

"We witnessed first-hand through the success of our Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit grant-funded programs in 2010, Team Up for Health and Making A Difference Everyday (MADE), that an integrated approach to chronic disease management attains better results for our patient community. Tri-City appreciates Kaiser Permanente’s continued support of our efforts to integrate behavioral health services with our chronic care model, creating a singular team-based approach to helping our patients manage their chronic conditions." said Loretta McEldowney, TCHC's Clinical Programs Manager.

TCHC is committed to promoting optimal health, eliminating preventable diseases, and improving the quality of life for every individual, teen and family in our community. The TCHC PHASE Plus program will further TCHC's mission of delivering excellent health services in a caring, nurturing, and respectful atmosphere.

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TCHC is a nonprofit, federally qualified health center that serves low-income, uninsured and homeless residents in Alameda County, California and offers high-quality primary medical, dental and behavioral health care services for the entire family.