Keeping Me Well aims to improve
support at home
This will start from 1st August 2019 with short term services
referrals for the Eastern Bay of Plenty.
By Emma Green, Project Manager, Keeping Me Well.
The BOPDHB is planning to launch a new
Integrated Community Enablement approach
designed to better support people (18+) with
short term needs in their home environment.
The Community Care Coordination Centre can be contacted via
the following;
Phone: 0800 267 222
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (07) 577 4606
Keeping Me Well shifts the focus of enablement services away
from the hospital environment to the community. With its dual
focus it is hoped by providing responsive enablement services in
the home environment we can keep people well at home thereby
preventing the need for them to be admitted to hospital or if
they have been in hospital recently, we can ensure that they are
enabled to return to the activities of daily living that are important
to them.
Keeping Me Well aims to bring
together community services as a
virtual team with the ability to deliver
enablement services tailored to
the individual person’s needs in a
person directed way. As this model
of healthcare progresses, it will link
to initiatives such as health care
homes. It is envisaged that Keeping
Me Well will be accessed through
the Community Care Coordination
Centre (CCC). This is the single
point of access for information to
community services which is focused
on responsive and early intervention
in the home.
The CCC was set up as a 12 – month
pilot last year as part of a new future-
focussed approach to community
nursing aiming to provide patients
and their family/ whānau with health
services which are well-coordinated,
simple to navigate and delivered
closer to home.
The CCC is now expanding to act as
this single point of coordination for
community services. The first stage
aims to phase in the requests/referrals
for the following DHB community
services over the next year;
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• Regional Maori Health
• Short Term Home and Community
support services
• Community Allied Health
• The Community Response Team
• District nursing (continuing as
before).
• In home strength and balance
programme.
The project team will continue to update you as the Keeping Me
Well programme of work progresses. If you have any queries
about the wider programme, please contact Emma Green, project
manager on 021 2479703 or [email protected].
Keeping Me Well
An Integrated Community Enablement Approach
What is the Keeping Me Well approach?
An Integrated Community Enablement
approach aiming to meet the short
term needs of people 18+ across the
Bay in order to keep people well at
home or get people well sooner in their
home environment.
What does this approach mean for patients?
My journey to
I can request
wellbeing will be
assistance from
supported
a single point
The plan is
directed by me
The response is
timely
Services are based in my home
What does it mean for providers?
Technology solutions to
support virtual teams
Single point of access
and information
Integrated inter-professional
team responsive to short
term enablement needs.