The National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) was selected as an awardee of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Asthma Business Development project.

Working at the intersection of housing and healthcare, NNCC understands the importance of a healthy home for families with asthma. NNCC has provided comprehensive home visiting services for 16 years, offering environmental education, home assessments, and resources for families across southeastern Pennsylvania. Over time, NNCC expanded its focus on lead poisoning prevention to address additional health concerns, such as environmental asthma triggers. NNCC currently provides the Safe and Healthy Homes Program, funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, for low-income families in Philadelphia. Through the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Asthma Business Development Technical Assistance award, there is an opportunity to coordinate NNCC services with primary care providers and explore innovative partnerships to optimize health outcomes for our clients. NNCC is excited to work with the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative to improve asthma care in our community.

On January 17, the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium signed onto a letter with Trust for America's Health and 280+ other public health organizations calling for an end to the government shutdown. The letter seeks to drawn attention to the negative impacts on basic health protections, increased environmental risks, increased economic instability, and risks to the most-vulnerable Americans.

The letter in part states:

Click here to read the full letter.

Nurses from our Philadelphia Nurse-Family Partnership program are featured in a video highlighting the amazing impact of home visiting nurses in our community. Watch the video below.

The Philadelphia Nurse-Family Partnership has been serving low-income first-time mothers in Philadelphia since 2001, and has been recognized by the NFP National Service Office and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for exemplary performance. The program’s outcomes include long-term family improvements in health, education, and economic self-sufficiency. By helping to break the cycle of poverty, the Nurse-Family Partnership plays an important role in helping to improve the lives of society’s most vulnerable members, build stronger communities, and leave a positive impact on this and future generations.

Nurse-led care improves patient outcomes and produces value. Time to prove it!

By the end of 2016, 85 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments were meant to be tied to quality or value, with 90 percent by 2018. As we continue to see changes to health care delivery and reimbursement, particularly a transition to value-based care, it’s more important than ever to demonstrate the value nurse-led care can bring to these new care management strategies.

National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) are working together to identify high-performing practices as part of our work on the Nurse Practitioner Support and Alignment Network (NP SAN). Our NP SAN is developing a registry of nurse-led, high-performing practices to demonstrate the critical importance of nursing under value-based reimbursement. The NP SAN will showcase these practices as part of a national campaign with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This is our opportunity to demonstrate the value of nursing when it comes to transforming clinical practice.

A high-performing practice is one that should meet the following criteria:

Does Your Practice Meet These Criteria?

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