British Columbia's Expanded
Chronic Care Model
B.C.'s Expanded Chronic Care Model identifies essential elements in a system that strives for enhanced chronic care management. These include:
- the community
- the health system
- self-management support
- delivery system design
- decision support
- clinical information systems
The model is based on the "Chronic Care Model" used by a United States national program called Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC) based in Seattle, Washington, at the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound.
The model can be employed with a variety of chronic illnesses, health care settings and target populations. The purpose of applying the model is to achieve better health outcomes, resulting in healthier patients, more satisfied providers and more cost-effective expenditure of health care resources.
B.C. has worked with ICIC to expand the model to include health promotion and disease prevention, below. Click on the image for a larger view.
B.C.'s Expanded Chronic Care Model
For more information, visit the ICIC web site.
Last Revised: February 14, 2007
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