Description
Book SynopsisOur nation''s capacity to care is becoming increasingly stressed as an aging and increasingly unhealthy population collides with a relative reduction in the numbers of clinicians and ever-tightening financial resources. If even the mildest of future-state predictions are to be believed, we need a significant restructuring of our entire healthcare system and its total Capacity to Care, such that we can simultaneously improve care capacity, cost, quality, accessibility, and resource gratification.
Optimizing Your Capacity to Care: A Systems Approach to Hospital and Population Health Management provides comprehensive guidance to a new way to optimize and manage community-wide Care Capacity via a unique, holistic approach to healthcare operations. Through clear examples and actual project results, the book demonstrates the outcomes of a systems-level way of thinking about a community''s Capacity to Care that incorporates and integrates the full spectrum of availa
Table of Contents
Introduction. Healthcare Cost: An Overview. Introduction to Workplace Culture. Making the Transition from a Culture of Accountability to a Culture of Ownership. Terminology of This Book. Introduction to Hospital Capacity Optimization. Dynamic Capacity Management: An Approach to Capacity Optimization. The Blocking and Tackling of Hospital Capacity Management. Blocking and Tackling of Capacity Management in the Emergency Department. Blocking and Tackling of Capacity Management in Surgical Services. Blocking and Tackling of Inpatient Capacity Management. Physicians and Their Role in Optimization. Preparing for Coming Change: Forming a PHO. Care Circle Networks. The Care Circle Network Concept. Assessing the Community and the Patient Population. Building the Communal Resource Pool. CCNs, Palliative Care, and End-of-Life Planning. Final Thoughts.
