Regional hospice network offers system benefits.
Hospice programs can develop multi-institutional arrangements to ensure high-quality care and to plan for orderly distribution and location of programs. Three Illinois hospitals in conjunction with the local HSA have developed a hospice network that will maintain institutional autonomy while coordinating many administrative functions.
D006307:Health Systems Agencies; D006738:Hospices / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007087:Illinois; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States