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Vermont Blue Advantage and Cathedral Square have formed a partnership to launch a Support and Services at Home (SASH®) pilot that will support the health of older Vermonters by providing comprehensive services in their homes.
Cathedral Square has named two women with long-standing experience in the Support and Services at Home (SASH®) program to the top leadership posts of the statewide program.
Launched statewide in 2011, SASH® (Support and Services at Home) celebrated its 10th anniversary Nov. 12, 2021. See videos of featured speakers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine, founder Nancy Rockett Eldridge and others.
Vermont political leaders, health and social-services commissioners, and others will gather to celebrate the 10th anniversary of SASH®
Funding from OneCare Vermont – the organization leading the state’s “all payer” experiment in health-care reform -- is keeping an innovative and proven system of support for vulnerable Vermonters called SASH (Support and Services at Home) operating in all corners of Vermont.
The latest federal evaluation of Vermont’s groundbreaking “Support and Services at Home” (SASH) program, released July 12, shows significantly slower growth in the cost of long-term institutional care for very low-income SASH participants living in most areas of the state compared to non-participants.
An August 2018 article published in the national research journal Cityscape reports that Vermont’s groundbreaking “Support and Services at Home” (SASH) program for older adults and people with disabilities is slowing the growth of Medicare expenditures in emergency-room visits and specialist services.
Improved health, slowed Medicare expenditures and more health-savvy older adults: these are the findings of the latest federally funded, third-party evaluation of older adults living in Vermont affordable-housing communities and enrolled in SASH® (Support and Services at Home)
The Vermont Foodbank and SASH® (Support and Services at Home, a comprehensive care-coordination model managed through nonprofit housing organizations throughout Vermont), have extended their partnership for a third year.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has named 40 senior housing developments in seven states that will pilot a program modeled after SASH®, the innovative, supportive-services housing model created by Cathedral Square Corporation of South Burlington, Vermont.