The Community Care Travel Team is an innovative, cost effective, chronic disease management program that provides a range of support services to patients in their Med Net One primary care physician’s office rather than an offsite facility or hospital.

Our Community Care Travel Team (CCTT) Services:
Our CCTT is comprised of registered nurses, registered dietitians, certified diabetes educators, certified pre-diabetes program educators, exercise specialists, behavioral health specialists and lifestyle coaches that provide a multitude of services within the comforts of a physician’s practice:

• Education on self-management practices
• Healthy lifestyle education
• Individual or group sessions
• Telephonic support between appointments

The patients work with the team to:

• Manage their condition through diet and exercise
• Better understand their medications
• Manage emotional and physical health
• Improve motivation to ensure lasting changes
• Maximize quality of life

Community Care travel Team and Primary Care:
The CCTT concept is based on extensive research showing that self-management, group visits and integration of the telephone into the care program work to:

• Diminish patient symptoms
• Enhance patient activity
• Increase patient independence
• Encourage patients to take a more proactive role in their care

In addition to the benefits experienced by chronically ill patients, offering the CCTT in a physician’s practice provides the capability to:

• Decrease healthcare costs
• Reduce redundancy of services
• Reduce the number of prescriptions filled
• Reduce the annual number of office visits
• Reduce the number of unique providers involved in patient care
• Decrease hospital stays
• Decrease frequent emergency department and urgent care visits

CCTT and the Patient-Centered Medical Home:
The CCTT program offers chronic illness management services in a cost-effective manner and lays the foundation for team-based care a key component of a “Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).” A PCMH is a healthcare setting that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, their personal physicians and when appropriate, the patient’s family.