Optimizing your capacity to care : a systems approach to hospital and population health management /: a systems approach to hospital and population health management. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pierce Story.
• Authors: Story, Pierce
• Contents: Introduction ; Why This Topic?; Goals of This Book; A Caveat to the Claim of "Holistic"; ; Healthcare Cost: An Overview of the Issues; A Frank Conversation about the Cost of the U.S. Healthcare System; Waste; Perversion; The 80–15–5 and the Population’s View; Relative Health; End of Life; Summary; ; Introduction to the Section on Workplace Culture; ; Making the Transition from a Culture of Accountability to a Culture of Ownership, by Joe Tye; Introduction; The Journey from Accountability to Ownership; Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch; Fostering a More Positive Healthcare Culture; Key Lessons for Fostering a Culture of Ownership; Conclusion; ; Terminology of This Book; Care Circle Networks; Downstream; Dynamic Capacity Analysis, Matching, and Management; Interdependencies; Health Ownership; Outlier; Upstream; Hour of Day, Day of Week, Week of Month, and Season of Year; The Five Pillars of Healthcare Capacity Optimization; ; Introduction to Section on Hospital Capacity Optimization; ; Dynamic Capacity Management: An Approach to Capacity Optimization; Healthcare Is Different; Variability and Interdependencies; Demand Patterns and the Relevance of Ranges; Making Capacity Dynamic; DCAMM and Other PI Methodologies; Summary; ; The Blocking and Tackling of Hospital Capacity Management: An Overview ; ; Blocking and Tackling of Capacity Management in the Emergency Department; Breaking Down the Arrival Data; Blocking and Tackling of ED Capacity; Other ED Performance Improvement Concepts; Summary; ; Blocking and Tackling of Capacity Management in Surgical Services; Block-Scheduling Overview; OR Data Analytics for Optimization; Surgeon Utilization; Other Analytics; Additional Analytics and Tips; Creating the New Schedule; Review of the Blocking and Tackling of Block Scheduling; Summary; ; Blocking and Tackling of Inpatient Capacity Management; Capacity Variance; Essential Elements; Managing Inpatient Capacity Patterns; Summary; ; Physicians and Their Role in Optimization; Until Then, What Now?; Final Thoughts: Legal Protections; Summary; ; Preparing for Coming Change: Forming a PHO, by Peter Wood ; Introduction; Culture and Behavior; Getting Started; What Does the Operational Structure Look Like?; Funding the PHO Operations; Pulling It All Together: A Real Case Model of a PHO; Is This All for Real? Does It Exist Elsewhere?; ; Care Circle Networks: An Introduction ; Background; Achilles’ Heels; Summary; ; The Care Circle Network Concept ; CCN Description; Application Overview; An Engineered Approach; CCN Components; Managing Communal Resources; Technology Infrastructure; Palliative and End-of-Life Care; Assimilation and Passion; Capacity as Strategy; Other Important Attributes of the CCN; An Additive Solution; A Caveat to the Contents of This Book; A Missing Element; Summary; ; Assessing the Community and the Patient Population ; Selecting Patients; Size, Scope, and Scale of Your CCN; "Assimilation Propensity"; Summary; ; Building the Communal Resource Pool ; Overview; Resource and Capacity Variance; Resource Options; Resource Selection; Selecting Physicians; Creating a Care Circle Team; Using the Care Strategies; Personalizing the Resource Pool; Resource Assimilation; Resources for the Resources; Resource Education for Assimilation; Leadership and Core Values; Group Dynamics™ for Resources; Outcomes and Incentives; Challenges and Obstacles; Summary; ; CCNs, Palliative Care, and End-of-Life Planning ; Palliative Care: Definition and History; EOL Planning and Care; Integrating EOL and Palliative Care into the CCN Model; The Payor Role; Government and EOL Planning; Summary; ; Final Thoughts; Summary; ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.10973; Medical care -- United States; Medical policy -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466593978
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