title: CPR: a systematic design for change.
abstract: Major changes such as prospective payment and managed care are rocking the boat for today's home care providers. To stay afloat a number of providers are redesigning their organizations. Using Core Process Redesign, a team-based methodology for improving what, where, and how work is done in an organization, one agency saved nearly a half million dollars in one year.
authors.affiliation: Home Health Care of Greater Neuburyport, MA, USA.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Poirier
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Moran
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018574:Home Care Agencies / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D014481:United States