Comprehensive Care, Community, And Culture (C4p) Americorps

Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture (C4P) AmeriCorps

The Comprehensive Care, Community and Culture Program (C4P) aims to improve the overall health and well-being of patients in the program by addressing a wide range of medical and social needs. The C4P program builds off of the Comprehensive Care Physician Program, which offers patients at high risk of hospitalization a comprehensive care physician (CCP) who cares for them in both the hospital and the clinic.

In addition to receiving care from a CCP, C4P patients are regularly asked about a range of unmet social needs and given access to a community health worker and community-based arts and culture programming. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has funded a randomized trial of C4P at the University of Chicago. AmeriCorps members at the University of Chicago and Ingalls Memorial Hospital will be responsible for extending the reach of the C4P program to impact patient experience with care and health outcomes, lower hospitalization rates, and resolve unmet social needs for participants.

Learn more and submit a preliminary application at https://ccpprogram.uchicago.edu/americorps-program/. This posting is for applicants who have already applied and been accepted through the external link listed above. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties : AmeriCorps members will be based at the University of Chicago Medical Center or Ingalls Memorial Hospital and will: 1) Assess hospitalized patients for unmet medical and social needs 2) Directly serve these patients as community resources specialists and through the implementation of community-based arts and culture programming, 3)Recruit Medicare patients of diverse ages who are at increased risk of hospitalization for the C4P program, which is designed to serve their medical and social needs, 4)Help evaluate the effects of the C4P program 5)Leverage volunteers to help recruit participants and evaluate the C4P program

Program Benefits : Training , Education award upon successful completion of service , Living Allowance .

Terms :

Permits attendance at school during off hours , Permits working at another job during off hours .

Service Areas :

Health .

Skills :

Medicine , Computers/Technology , Communications , Social Services , Public Health , Counseling .