title: Starting a hospital-based home health agency: Part I. The service and its environment.
abstract: Alternative care services and delivery options can improve quality, access and institutional viability. When properly implemented, home healthcare--an important link in the continuum of the healthcare delivery system--provides this service. Part I of this three-part series describes the research, review and beginning implementation, defines populations, and evaluates environmental assessments which set the foundation to establish a hospital-based agency.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011153:Population