Integrated Care In Practice

Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center is a 360 bed acute care hospital. The hospital has embraced VBP in all areas of care delivery. The Audit and Compliance Committee, Quality Committee, as well has hospital and regional administration, meet quarterly to review data in all quality and efficiency measures. Planning, goals, and timelines have been established to improve patient care following the most current CMS guidelines. Asante developed a Balanced Scorecard to monitor their quarterly progress, and measure their performance against state and national benchmarks. The Balanced Scorecard is available on their website for community review. Asante utilizes the Patient Family Centered Care model in order to improve patient and family partnerships

Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, eating, and using the bathroom. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. Long-term care can be given at any age depending on

For this unit I need to research the impact of one national policy on care practice and provision. I will be accurately and independently applying an in depth knowledge and understanding to give a comprehension explanation of the impact of one national policy on care practice and provision.

Health Information Exchange (HIE) has become a major component in today’s healthcare. Health information exchange provides a secure way for providers to appropriately access and electronically share a patient’s medical information. Therefore, reducing duplicate testing, minimizing medication errors and providing a link among electronic health records (EHR) in order to provide quality healthcare.

The focus of this paper is case management. Case management has evolved into a diverse profession which includes many disciplines and is exercised in many settings. Case management involves the process of coordinating multiple services on behalf of clients and has been practiced now for several decades. Many disciplines have engaged in case management and identify themselves as case managers. Case managers work with many populations and settings and play an important role in today’s society. The following analysis explores how case management developed, how it is defined, its components, and how it relates to other nursing care delivery models. All these aspects are reviewed with the purpose to show the importance of case management

The Continuum of Care is the variety of health care services provided to numerous individuals who are in need of it. All the various Long Term Care providers work as a unit, helping an individual handle their disability with various health care amenities accessible. The Continuum of Care, as stated in Long Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum (2010), is “comprehensive, integrated, and client-oriented”. All the services offered should be client-based and cater to the client’s needs and suitable care. The client’s should be able to obtain services when it is needed from the provider, making it comprehensive. All the different Long Term Care providers should be interconnected between one another, because their goal is all the same. Their goal is to care for the client’s needs. The Continuum of Care consists of: nursing facilities, sub acute care, assisted living, residential care, elderly housing, and a variety of community-based services (Pratt, 2010). All these different providers work together to care for the individuals within the health care industry, creating the continuum and making it integrated. The continuum has many positive attributes, along with many barriers. The range of barriers are: poor transitions from Long Term Care setting to setting for the clients, the continuum is reimbursement-driven, it is fragmented and uncoordinated, it is under staffed with medical professionals, and there are major language and literacy problems.

In a professional like yours, integration partnerships are critical; the unique contribution of each member is critical to the value of the work and to creating the context for service (Porter-O'Grady&Malloch, 2016, p. 336). When it comes to teaching nurses structure is important. Each class has to build off one another because in nursing is multi-dimensional. It is important to establish a structure that will best support this effort and the role characteristics of healthcare leadership that will guide its implementation focus on role clarity, autonomy with integration, professional team-based performance, shared decision making, and the means to ensure that the clinical work done is resource effective, timely, and value based, and works to

Strengths and Weaknesses for Integrated Treatment In a perfect world, integrated treatment approaches for all clients is a thorough, thoughtful, and positive approach to the overall recovery of the individual, especially for those with co-occurring disorders. Currently, through my professional work as a drug and alcohol case manager, both site and field-based, I see the strengths as a collaborative and integrated approach to treatment for these individuals, including a variety of programs and professionals, ranging from drug and alcohol treatment providers, mental health counselors, psychiatrists, and certified recovery and peer specialists. Van Wormer and Davis (2018) highlighted the evidence-based Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) approach

The goal of this assignment is to define the diverse forms of integrated care and to provide evidence on their impact both on the patient and also the future of the registered nurse. An integrated care pathway contains many elements in order to make it function. There must be a clear declaration of the aims, objectives and key elements of care founded by evidence, the best practice available and a consideration of patient expectations. The records, 24-hour care and assessment of changes and outcomes must be monitored. The assistance of communication, good organisation of people’s roles and sequencing the actions of the relatives, multidisciplinary team, and most importantly the patients. For an integrated care pathway to be truly multidisciplinary, it should never be developed by one staff group. At the outset, all staff groups involved in the patient journey should be identified. A typical working group should include doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, with input from administrative and managerial staff where it is necessary. If the pathway exceeds boundaries of care, such as, discharging patients to services outside the hospital or healthcare setting, reps of these groups should be involved with their integrated care plan. It is the integration of health care, social care, and other external agencies such as voluntary groups and private sectors that impact on the patients care and health professional’s quality of care giving. It does not need all

Continuum of care is a system that guides patients throughout their lives with a variety of health services including physical health, mental health, and social services (HIMMS, 2014). Under this specific title, a continuum of care includes prevention programs, physical activity programs, community-based services, routine health screening, and healthy lifestyle counseling (HIMMS, 2014). For example, a nurse navigator assists clients in the complexity of the health system and bring them access to the right services at the right time to improve or manage their overall health (CARA, 2008). With ACA adding coverage under Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance to preventative services and health screenings, it provides a pathway for patients to

This weeks documentary videos on The New Medicine were informative, interesting and highlighted several thought provoking topics. According to Dr. Brian Berman of the University of Maryland School of Medicine defines integrative medicine as the practice of medicine that emphasizes the therapeutic relationship between the caregiver and the patient, which takes into account of the whole person. (TheNewMedicine) It is not just about root-cause or evidence base medicine any longer, long gone are the days where patients were not as engaged with their care plans and clients were less interactive. In addition, due to the increase of technology patients have become more informed about the practices that benefit and thwart organizational success through

In this report I will be investigating how care services meet the needs of individuals by firstly analysing the needs of an individual using care services. Then I will go on to explain the roles of the care planning process in identifying needs, and explain the features of a positive care practise. After explaining that, I will analysis positive care environments and evaluate how they meet needs before finally explaining the role of legislation in promoting a positive care environment.

This essay aims to describe briefly what is meant by patient-centred care. It will also focus and expand on two key aspects of patient dignity - making choices and confidentiality. Patient-centred care (PCC) is an extensively used model in the current healthcare system (Pelzang 2010:12). PCC is interpreted as looking at the whole person and considering their individual values and needs in relation to their healthcare. By implementing a PCC approach it ensures that the person is at the very centre of any plans that are made and has a dynamic role in the decision making process (Pelzang 2010:12).

Integrated care can mean different things to different people. Integrated care reflects a concern to improve a patients experience and achieve better efficiency and value from the delivery of care. It aims to provide a seamless, better coordinated and consistent care (Shaw, 2011: 6). An interlinked approach has been strongly endorsed in government documents recently as effective methods to link care is a pressing policy concern. However moves towards integration have been treated with suspicion and scepticism by many due to the barriers and challenges which are still open for debate (Birrell, 2006).

As a future health professional, it is important for me to think about my experiences with health professionals and, based on how I felt during these experiences, decide how I will treat my future clients. In this essay I will be describing the IHP (Integrated health professional) model and an example of one of my experiences where I visited a physiotherapist. This was a pleasant experience because I arrived feeling overwhelmed and frustrated but left feeling relaxed and hopeful. I will reflect on how my physiotherapist achieved this and decide how I will take what I have learnt from my experience and the IHP model to become a better integrated health professional.