Serenity Care PACE

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) helps older adults (individual 55+) with complex medical needs. The program helps older adults avoid nursing homes and instead receive the care and services necessary to help them be safe, comfortable, and healthy while living in their own community.

Serenity Care PACE

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) helps older adults (individual 55+) with complex medical needs. The program helps older adults avoid nursing homes and instead receive the care and services necessary to help them be safe, comfortable, and healthy while living in their own community.

Towns Serenity Care PACE Serves

Agawam

Amherst

Becket

Belchertown

Blandford

Bondsville

Brimfield

Chester

Chesterfield

Chicopee

Cummington

East Longmeadow

Goshen

Granby

Granville

Greenfield

Hadley

Hampden

Hampton

Hatfield

Holyoke

Huntington

Leverette

Ludlow

Middlefield

Monsoon

Montague

Northampton

Palmer

Plainfield

Russell

Shelburne Falls

Southampton

Southwick

Springfield

Tolland

Wales

Ware

Washington

West Springfield

Westfield

Wilbraham

Williamsburg

Worthington

Agawam

Amherst

Becket

Belchertown

Blandford

Bondsville

Brimfield

Chester

Chesterfield

Chicopee

Cummington

East Longmeadow

Goshen

Granby

Granville

Greenfield

Hadley

Hampden

Hampton

Hatfield

Holyoke

Huntington

Leverette

Ludlow

Middlefield

Monsoon

Montague

Northampton

Palmer

Plainfield

Russell

Shelburne Falls

Southampton

Southwick

Springfield

Tolland

Wales

Ware

Washington

West Springfield

Westfield

Wilbraham

Williamsburg

Worthington

Zip Codes Serenity Care PACE Serves

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WHAT IS PACE?

Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is an alternative to nursing home care.

The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) is a federally funded health care plan that offers a variety of services, with many of them provided onsite at a PACE Center.

PACE is an alternative to nursing home care and – through an interdisciplinary care team (IDT) of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, therapists, van drivers, and aides – coordinates and provides preventive, primary, acute, and long-term care services, so older individuals can continue living in the community.

The interdisciplinary team collaborates with seniors and their families to create a comprehensive and coordinated personal care plan, makes all necessary appointments, coordinates specialists, manages medication, and provides transportation to and from PACE centers.

87% of participants live at home

While 100% of PACE participants are eligible for nursing facility placement, 87% live safely in the community.1

Low hospital & nursing facility use

Only 13% of PACE enrollees are in long term care facilities, compared to 22% of non-PACE consumers who are nursing facility eligible.2

Saves the taxpayers money

PACE saves the State approximately $30 million annually in health care spending. (2016 data)3

High rates of satisfaction

As an alternative to nursing home care, PACE keeps frail seniors in their homes and communities with high rates of satisfaction. Between 2010 and 2016 just over 2% of PACE enrollees voluntarily disenrolled from PACE, indicating PACE participants are very satisfied with their overall care.4

Strengthened end-of-life planning

PACE programs strengthen end-of-life planning and help promote not only “quality of life,” but “quality of death” for their participants, allowing participants to choose how and where they want to die surrounded by family and loved ones.5

Before I Found PACE

Terri Ann and Leon Dirteater

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  1. MassPACE 2018 consolidated data. See Issue Brief #2: More Appropriate Care for PACE Enrollees.
  2. 21% of PACE enrollees had a hospital admission versus 27% of a similar population not enrolled in PACE.
  3. 2016 Comparison of monthly Medicaid (MassHealth) cost for PACE of $3406 compared to fee for service upper payment limit of $4090 projected against all Medicaid dual-eligible and Medicaid-only participant member months netted a 17% savings in PMPM. See Brief: PACE Reduces MassHealth Costs and Improves Quality of Life for Older Adults.
  4. PACE Voluntary Quarterly Disenrollment Rates.
  5. MassPACE. See Issue Brief #3: How PACE Programs Strengthen End-of-Life Planning and Care.
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