What are care models?
Care models are the purposeful alignment and coordination of all the resources required to deliver a set of services and experiences that produce desired outcomes for individuals. It’s the core offerings of health systems. Health systems are built to support and deliver a portfolio of care models for different patients and conditions.
Do care models affect quality and patient safety?
Ideally, evidence of the effect of care models on quality and patient safety would also be a major factor in decisionmaking. Historically, four traditional care models have dominated the organization of inpatient nursing care.
Can models really make a difference in healthcare?
The promising news for healthcare systems is that there a multitude of models that have been proven to make a difference; the challenge now is closing the gap between what we know and what we do and delivering the type of care that patients need and want.