title: Transition to continuum of care ends in success. Part 1.
abstract: When Salt Lake City-based Inter-mountain Health Care opened its doors in the mid-1970s, the 15-facility hospital group began building a care management system that focused on the episode of care. By the 1980s, Inter-mountain was building a continuum of care and a team to manage it. All the while, Inter-mountain's assessments indicated the group was managing acute care patients effectively. But it took until the 1990s for Inter-mountain to realize that patients with chronic illnesses could be better managed, as well.
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017050:Episode of Care; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital; D014589:Utah