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A 5 page paper answering four utilization questions arising from plans to add a chronic care unit to a local hospital. The Director of a General Medicine program needs to implement a 30-bed chronic care unit in an existing hospital in Canada. The unit will take some patients immediately as another hospital closes; its other patients will originate at the hospital where the unit will be located. She needs to establish a budget and staffing needs, and estimate the new unit's effect on existing hospital resources. The director also needs to develop performance indicators for the new unit. The purpose here is to assess the types of information necessary to complete these tasks. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: CC6_KShlthCarCanUtil.rtf
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Director of a General Medicine program needs to implement a 30-bed chronic care unit in an existing hospital in Canada. The unit will take some patients immediately as another
hospital closes; its other patients will originate at the hospital where the unit will be located. She needs to establish a budget and staffing needs, and estimate the new
units effect on existing hospital resources. The director also needs to develop performance indicators for the new unit. The purpose here is to assess the types of information
necessary to complete these tasks. 1. Discuss what questions you would like answered as you begin assessing the impact of this unit. There are
several questions that should be answered at the outset of the project. Among them are: * What constitutes chronic care? Are the patients expected to improve over time,
or are they only being maintained? * Are there categories of care in chronic care that could be served better through home health care rather than in the hospital setting?
* Is the use of a nursing home an appropriate alternative for those cases requiring longer periods of care and requiring nursing attention? * Is the issue addressed in the
MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit and assessing the units demands on the hospitals available resources? *
What is the utilization rate of other hospital units similar in size and function? * How do similar units in other hospitals affect resource utilization in those hospitals? Is
there information regarding requirements for labor, space use, medical supplies? * Are individuals from other disciplines such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists necessary in chronic care? What are the
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