Independent Living Systems (ILS) Senior Vice President for Long-Term Care & Nutrition Josefina Carbonell served as a featured speaker at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s “Connecting Senior Health and Housing” forum held on Thursday, Nov. 10 at the University of Miami. Carbonell participated in a panel discussion about local innovations being made to help bridge the health care and housing divide.

As the former Assistant Secretary for Aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she directed all operations of the Department’s $4.1 billion in federal grant programs to support community-based Long Term Care Services for the elderly, Carbonell has unique insight and perspective on how public and private sectors can collaborate to develop innovative models of senior care. During the discussion, she shed light on the pioneering work ILS is doing to assist people with aging in place in their homes by providing critical Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) options to manage individuals with chronic conditions and functional disabilities. Carbonell also discussed customized patient-centered Care Management practices and proven interventions in the area of fall prevention.

“It was an honor to join such a distinguished group of health care and housing leaders for this incredibly important event,” Carbonell said. “I am proud to support the efforts of the Bipartisan Policy Center to advance policy reforms and new solutions to meet the increasing health and housing needs of our older adults.”

ILS offers a full range of specialized Care Management and Long Term Services and Supports on behalf of health care plans, provider systems, hospitals, and community-based organizations that serve members of federal and state Government-Sponsored Programs with the common goal of keeping them independent and healthy.

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Senior Health and Housing Task Force recently released a report titled “Healthy Aging Begins at Home.” The task force was formed to underscore the commonalities between health care and housing in fostering improved health outcomes, cost savings and enhanced quality of life for the nation’s aging population.

About Independent Living Systems:

Independent Living Systems (ILS) is a Miami-based health care services company that provides a range of health care management services on behalf of health care plans, providers, hospitals, and community based organizations. ILS provides member-centric health and support solutions to millions of America’s Medicare, Medicaid, dual eligible, special needs, long term care, and PACE members. The company is also one of the largest providers of home delivered meals in the United States. ILS employs more than 800 employees. For more information, visit www.ilshealthservices.com.