ar Medicare or Medicaid while saving the government more money than a traditional program. The other goals of PACE are to maintain function and decrease morbidity through timely detection of acute diseases (Eng). This is one of the main aspects of PACE and it is called preventative health services. These services include immunization to making sure of a higher compliance of use of medication. Also, they screen annually for depression and periodic nutritional assessment of PACE. Another goal of PACE is prevention of premature utilization of institution Care. PACE accomplishes this shifting care from institutional care to community services such as adult-day health and home care. The average length of stay in 1995 was 4.9 days per admission. On the other hand, Medicare has an average length of care of 7.6 days per admission. Pace also allows less time in nursing homes. While the average age for a PACE enrollee is 80 years old, only 5% of total capitation days are nursing home days.
             The services offered by PACE are physician visits, prescription drugs, rehabilitation services, personal care workers, hospitalization, and nursing home care if needed. They also offer services that Medicare and Medicaid do not offer such as: social services intervention, care management, respite care, and extended home-care nursing. The PACE model includes in-home services, day care, laboratory and ambulance services, skilled nursing facility care, medical specialty services, and restorative/supportive services.
             The way a PACE system is organized is very complex, but it provides full coverage to the patient in every aspect. There are eight different aspects of PACE of what they call the "PACE participation team." The aspects of the PACE Participation Team are: In-Home Services, Day Health Care, Primary Care, Laboratory X-Ray Ambulance Service, Restorative/Supportive Services, Medical Specialty Services, Skilled Nursing Facilit...