title: Innovative collaborations: a case study for academic owned nursing practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Academic service partnerships are critical for schools of nursing to maintain credibility regarding their missions of education, research, service, and practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this paper, we describe a case study of a ten year program, the Living Independently For Elders (LIFE) Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing that has provided community-based long-term care to high-risk older adults.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Quality of care and financial outcomes were met with nurse faculty engagement, administrative commitment, and integration of business practices.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As a result, high risk older adults receive care in their communities rather than nursing homes, and the school- owned and -operated program is a nationally recognized innovative nursing model of care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Strategies are described that can be used globally as more schools of nursing embrace and strengthen service partnerships.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217, USA. marx@nursing.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Eileen M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Sullivan-Marx
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bradway
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barnsteiner
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003256:Community Participation; D005260:Female; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017146:Models, Organizational; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010414:Pennsylvania; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States