PACE initiatives are a cost-effective model of care delivery
Legistative Visitors come to PACE at Warrensville
For many years, McGregor has been the only PACE site in Ohio with three locations to include PACE at Forest Hill, Warrensville Heights and Old Brooklyn.
The Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly uses a community-based approach that enables older aduts to remain among famililar surroundings while receiving the help they need. For many seniors, the ability to reamin at home is what life is all about. Under the PACE program, services that address teh medical, rehabillitative, social and personal care needs of older adults. An interdisciplinary team works with ‘participants’ and their caregivers to develop a plan of care. Basic services include: Primary Care, Home health care, Home meals, Prescription medicaion management, Day Health Center, Physicial and Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Group Activities and one of the most imortant services–Transportation!
PACE at Forest Hill 
Tangi McCoy-CEO McGregor PACE, Senator Romanchuk, Ann Conn-President & CEO McGregor Foundation
McGregor PACE in Warrensville Heights was able to fare better than most other home and community-based care providers. While its offices closed, McGregor was able to transition adult day care staff to take care of patients at home. Vehicles used for transportation to day care instead transported food to patients at their houses.
It’s been the only PACE provider in the state of Ohio for seven years, but with the pandemic highlighting the importance of non-nursing home care, the state planned last month to use federal COVID-19 relief funds to add three more sites. In addition, long-term care leaders have been spurred to lobby for more state money to expand PACE.
Think of the many types of care an elderly person with medical issues might need. There’s adult day care or care directly at the home. Maybe care at a nursing home can’t be avoided. There’s your typical preventative care as well as emergency services. Meals and transportations may need to be provided. Therapy and behavioral care might be required. The list goes on.