Manage Chronic Disease From Head To Toe Within Your Agency To Maximize Use Of Your Clinical Staff
March 21, 2021
Manage Chronic Disease Effectively
There is something missing in chronic disease management today. We educate staff and push chronic disease care during staff meetings. However, the overall improvement in the patient's outcomes aren't what it should be. The problem isn't the clinician staff, but it lies in operations. Let's take a look at what we mean.
What Do You Mean It's Operations?
Let's say you are an agency that focuses a decent chunk of money into your educational programs and quality improvement. That's great, but here is what is often seen:
1. Clinicians have individual trainings (normally just the nursing staff)
2. Clinicians return to seeing patients
3. Back to the same old way of doing things
Here is what it should look like:
1. Clinical Administration has done a SWOT analysis of chronic disease management in your organization.
2. A multidisciplinary approach has been taken to education which includes all clinical disciplines including the home health aides and therapy providers.
3. Once the clinical groups are trained, then the entire clinical staff is educated on the operational flow within your organization related chronic disease management. It is Chronic Disease Management for Agencies training and this is different from the individual clinicians learning about the disease itself.
4. All clinicians will understand the change in their individual roles in chronic disease management. It will be clear to the clinicians that nursing is not wholly responsible for chronic disease management within the care plan.
5. Evaluating the process and making adjustments to improve clinical outcomes will be an ongoing part of the CQI process.
Make the Change To Better Chronic Disease Management
At Kenyon Homecare Consulting
, we strive to help agencies manage chronic disease more effectively. Ultimately, this decreases overall costs made in unnecessary visits and emergent care/hospitalizations. We provide both online and onsite educational services that focus on the individual clinician as well as the agency in operations. Call us today at 206-721-5091 or contact us online
to see how we can help you! And, join us for our free webinar on March 31st entitled, Don't Miss The Forest For the Trees In Your Educational Program Or You Will Lose Time And Money! Register here today!
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