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  • Title: Integrating hospice and home health services: analysis of strategic factors.
    Author: Smith HL, Reid RA.
    Journal: Home Health Care Serv Q; 1987; 8(1):87-102. PubMed ID: 10282206.
    Abstract:
    Two types of strategic factors promote the development of hospice-home health care alliances. Enabling factors include favorable reimbursement policies, acceptance of innovative and noninstitutional modes of health care delivery, and existing supportive infrastructures. Factors supporting alliances include similar types of patient needs, potential for sharing provider and administrative staff, joint referral networks, and common cost containment methodologies. A study of a multi-institutional arrangement between a hospice and a home health care program provided data on patient demographics, staff utilization, and programmatic costs. An analysis of these data showed surprising similarities between the programs. These findings support the continued efforts for service consolidation and integration.
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