Shaping an Integrated Delivery Network: Home Care's Role in Improving Service, Outcomes, and Profitability (Management Series) (Ache Management Series)

Learn how to make your integrated delivery system profitable and capable of coordinating care along the continuum. This groundbreaking book will show you how and why placing home care center stage is critical to managing patients skillfully, cost effectively, and safely. Includes insight gleaned from the authors' experience with helping more than 40 hospitals build, develop, and strengthen the home care component of their integrated delivery systems. You will learn specific, practical techniques for: * Coordinating clinical care * Facilitating communication across the system * Measuring performance * Controlling costs * Enhancing revenue * Partnering with physicians