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| Titel: |
RESTORATIVE (GERIATRIC SUBACUTE) CARE: THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT |
| Auteur: |
Suggs, Patricia K. Messick, Catherine B. Mittelmark, Maurice B. |
| Verschenen in: |
Educational gerontology |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 25 (1999) nr. 3 pagina's 211-219 |
| Jaar: |
1999-05-01 |
| Inhoud: |
Rural hospitals face difficult times as Medicare health insurance threatens their survival. A small community in Polk County, North Carolina, developed a program that was designed to take advantage of the Medicare skilled nursing benefit as a payment source and which can be implemented by any rural hospital that has Medicare-certified swing beds or distinct nursing facilities. This program involves the development of a special unit, the Restorative Care Unit (RCU), which provides subacute care to older adults. A major element in the RCU care system is a highly structured continuing education program for hospital staff. The continuing education component trains personnel to implement and manage the RCU care system using a team approach. The Appalachian Geriatric Education Center Consortium recognized the need for dissemination of this model of service. They took the concept, developed a curriculum and implemented it with eight rural hospitals. The purpose of this article is to describe in detail the RCU care system continuing education element, and present results from a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the program. The stages of the development of the program are described, in addition to the content of the curriculum. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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