Facilitating earlier transfer of care from acute stroke services into the community.
This article outlines an initiative to reduce length of stay for stroke patients within an acute hospital and to facilitate earlier transfer of care. Existing care provision was remodelled and expanded to deliver stroke care to patients within a community bed-based intermediate care facility or intermediate care at home. This new model of care has improved the delivery of rehabilitation through alternative and innovative ways of addressing service delivery that meet the needs of the patients.
Robinson
Jennifer
J
Walsall Manor Hospital.
D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007380:Intermediate Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007902:Length of Stay; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D019467:Subacute Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom