[4] In 2005, the Lipitz Center secured grant funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation,[5] the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute on Aging, and the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) in eight community-based primary care practices in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. region.
Based on these early results, two of the managed care organizations that participated in the RCT, including Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States Region, have decided to pay for the costs of Guided Care for at least a year following the conclusion of the RCT.
By the year 2025, more than 25 percent of the population will be living with multiple chronic conditions, and the cost for managing their care is expected to reach $1.07 trillion.
[15] Guided Care has been developed as a solution to the chronic disease problem currently facing millions of Americans.
Guided Care has received the 2009 Medical Economics Award for Innovation in Practice Improvement cosponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Medical Economics magazine.
In 2008, Guided Care won the American Public Health Association's 2008 Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation,[16] which recognizes one innovative model of health care for older Americans each year.