Welcome

Awakened Alternatives Enterprises, Inc. (AAI) is a state licensed, Medicare/Medicaid certified, and Joint Commission accredited community healthcare management agency serving all ages in the Chicagoland area.

Our core belief with regard to the promotion of quality, cost effective healthcare is that greater service intensity where a person lives creates self directed behaviors necessary to the greater use of less costly, primary levels of care. These services coupled with ongoing, individualized assessment, care coordination, case management, and education create a healthcare system that, not only manages disease, but prevents the development and progression of disease while addressing any factor in a person’s life that could affect desired outcomes. These activities lead to an immediate and long term quality and cost efficient healthcare system.

AAI was founded in 1992 by Genevieve Thomas, a Masters prepared registered nurse with more than 34 years experience in the delivery and management of health care. Since its inception in the basement of her home with 10 employees, AAI has grown to a multi-million dollar organization that employs more than 120 health care professionals.

At the outset, Mrs. Thomas differentiated AAI from similar organizations by adopting an integrated approach to patient care. She recognized early in her career that a person’s quality of life improved dramatically when the physical, emotional, spiritual and cultural aspects of their life were integrated and balanced with their healthcare needs. AAI has remained steadfast to its mission:

“To provide alternatives for managing healthcare that integrate the physical, emotional, spiritual, and cultural needs of customers, while conducting business in a compassionate and ethical manner.”

AAI believes that utilization monitoring through an improved system that includes care coordination, case management, concurrent review, and post hospitalization planning and management would improve the system’s efficiency and cost effectiveness. We are uniquely organized and positioned with a model that addresses the crisis of our nation’s healthcare system because of our ability to provide comprehensive, integrated healthcare with seamless continuity of care for hospitals, physicians, community-based healthcare organizations and individuals.

We see the opportunity to participate in the reshaping of our system of healthcare, particularly within the Medicare system where the cost of caring for seniors is in the trillions.