“…(Bravata, Ho, Meehan, Brass, & Concato, 2007; Demaerschalk, et al, 2010; Fonarow et al, 2012; Lichtman, Leifheit-Limson, Jones, Wang, & Goldstein, 2013) Research examining care coordination for people with cancer and stroke demonstrate a shift from utilization of more costly specialists and hospital care to more efficient primary care with reduced hospitalizations. (Claiborne, 2006; Feltner, et al, 2012; Ramsey, et al, 2009) The results from the KC 3 T program agree with these findings, in that the use of the a specially trained CHW as the KC 3 T navigator was able to shift visits from the ED to the primary care physician and there was only one 30-day readmission, which was not stroke related.…”