These Guidelines can also be found in Home Care Medicine - The Field Guide.
Excellence in home care medicine requires expertise not just in clinical and practice management, but in marshalling social service supports for patients who often are among the frailest, and complex. Practice and programmatic infrastructure may vary, but must include as least the basic supports necessary for mobile practice.
These guidelines cover the basic elements of structure and process of care typically required by accrediting organization such as JCAHO enhanced with specific sections on issues specific to home care medicine. They are offered as a guide to "best practices" as we know them, and will be updated as further information becomes available.
Don't reinvent the wheel! Learn from Academy leaders with over 100 years of home care medicine expertise in the form of the first-ever Home Care Medicine Field Guide - the first operations manual for this developing field funded by a grant from The Retirement Research Foundation.
Covering all aspects from building the care, design and implementation, measuring success, and growing your program, this manual will give you the guidance you need to start your program right and develop its success. Included in the Field Guide are the first set of standards called Guidelines for the field of home care medicine.
With this Field Guide you will be able to:
Jump start program development and/or spur program growth to a thriving program;
Identify sources of financial and organizational support earlier;
Develop quality care delivery models and care teams sooner and achieve financial viability;
Avoid mistakes and overcome obstacles to growth and adding new services.
This publication was developed by a committee comprised of seasoned AAHCP members who are professionally committed to the promotion of the art, science, and practice of medicine in the home. It serves as a complement to Making House Calls A Part of Your Practice. This publication is intended for those who have an established practice and are seeking to refine it.
These Guidelines can also be found in Home Care Medicine - The Field Guide.
Excellence in home care medicine requires expertise not just in clinical and practice management, but in marshalling social service supports for patients who often are among the frailest, and complex. Practice and programmatic infrastructure may vary, but must include as least the basic supports necessary for mobile practice.
These guidelines cover the basic elements of structure and process of care typically required by accrediting organization such as JCAHO enhanced with specific sections on issues specific to home care medicine. They are offered as a guide to "best practices" as we know them, and will be updated as further information becomes available.
