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SABACARE Announces New Version of Home Health Classification System

Washington, DC – November 18, 2004 -- Sabacare is proud to announce the
release of a new version of Home Health Care Classification (HHCC) System.
Renamed the Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System, this version updates
the original HHCC Version 1.0 to CCC Version 2.0. The Web site that hosts the classification remains the same (www.sabacare.com).

The new name, Clinical Care Classification (CCC), more accurately reflects the
purpose of the classification. Recent research has demonstrated that the CCC could be used to document nursing and patient care in any health care
environment where nurses practice such as ambulatory care, outpatient clinics, and hospital settings from medical and surgical to critical care units. The CCC can also be used by multidisciplinary teams and by other health care
providers.

The updated CCC Version 2.0 and the new name were approved by the HHCC
Scientific Advisory Board who meet annually to review the terminology and make suggested revisions. Version 2.0 follows the coding guidelines of the Unified Metathesaurus Literature System (UMLS) of the National Library of Medicine.

The updated CCC Version 2.0 contains a new Care Component labeled Life Cycle which addresses the Reproductive and Perinatal Systems, as well as Normal Growth and Development Diagnostic and Care Concepts. The updated CCC of Nursing Diagnoses contains 37 new terms, 10 of which were adapted from NANDA list of Nursing Diagnoses 2001-2002. The CCC of Nursing Interventions contains 38 new interventions which were added and renamed, and a few retired on recommendations by researchers and users of the HHCC.

Specific elements of the Clinical Care Classification (CCC) Version 2.0 include:

Care Components: contains 21 Care Components used to classify and code the taxonomies.

CCC of Nursing Diagnoses contains 182 Nursing Diagnoses (59 major and 123
subcategories) to label and code Nursing Diagnoses..

CCC of Nursing Outcomes: derived from CCC of Nursing Diagnoses contains 546 of Nursing Diagnoses Outcomes using three modifiers (Improved, Stabilized, or Deteriorated) to label and code Expected and/or Actual Outcomes.

CCC of Nursing Interventions contains 198 (72 major and 126 subcategories)
using four Type Action modifiers (Assess, Care, Teach, or Manage) to label and code 792 unique Nursing Interventions.

All of the changes (Additions, Retired, and Renamed Terms and/or Codes) from
Version 1.0 to 2.0 can be found at www. sabacare.com in Appendices A1, A2, and A3.

About CCC:

The Clinical Care Classification System emerged from the federally funded Home Care Project conducted by Saba and colleagues (1991) at Georgetown University School of Nursing in Washington, DC. The project was funded to develop a method to assess and classify patients to determine the resources required to provide home health services to the Medicare population including measuring their outcomes of care. ---- For additional information visit www.sabacare.com.