Regardless of faith or religious affiliation, any registered nurse that is a member of a congregation is invited to be a parish nurse. As parish nurses, registered nurses act as a vital link between the faith and medical communities.

PACT is the cornerstone of the New Models of Care initiative that is intended to transform the way Veterans receive care. PACT assists VHA in transforming Veterans' care by providing patient-driven, proactive, personalized, team-based care focused on wellness and disease prevention resulting in improvements in Veteran satisfaction, improved healthcare outcomes, and costs. The PACT model is built on the well-known concept of the patient-centered medical home staffed by high-functioning teams.

NANDA International (NANDA-I), the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) are comprehensive, research-based, standardized classifications of nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes. These classifications provide a set of terms to describe nursing judgments, treatments and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.

This fact sheet provides background on payable CCM service codes,identi es eligible practitioners and patients, and details the Medicare PFS billing requirements.