Describe one innovative health care delivery model that incorporates an interdisciplinary care delivery team. How is this advantageous to patient outcomes?
The primary objective of any health care delivery model is to deliver best patient care at affordable prices by lowering the care expense but still maintaining the standard service quality. An interdisciplinary health care delivery model has a team of an administrator, nurse and a general medical practitioner. They are responsible for giving excellent patient care and maintaining patient service quality. In this model the Nurse department is led by a Patient care manager under unit council with R & D support staff that work relentlessly to keep abreast with innovations in nursing care practices and keep on including best ones in the system. For training and development of nurses, staff specialists exist to promote learning and innovation in work practice environment. Clinical nurse experts, who are committed to excellence in nursing care, provide expertise to Staff nurses who are mostly registered nurses responsible for planning and rendering the individual patient care. They are assisted by nurse technicians. Everyone working in patient care have shared responsibility and are individual accountable. Innovative care delivery models It should have Nursing care to provide acute care in all extent. Model should increase the efficiency and service quality of care provider by introducing organizational Change. It will be through alteration in roles for all health care workers and medical interns, It should incorporate novel technologies, working on changing layouts and…

ining operations and support infrastructure. It should have measurable goals for patient as well as care provider satisfaction, quality, safety, cost and efficiency. The model should have capacity of replication in other similar institutions Some examples of novel model in health care delivery are: Accountable care organizations: It was launched as experiment by Medicare in 2012. These comprise group of hospitals, other medical fraternity, care providers and health insurance companies who agree to provide cost effective and quality healthcare services to a group of patients. If they save a good amount they can share it among them. Advantage to patients: The beneficiary gets best care services and bears lower cost for the treatment as care providers are motivated to do so as get a share in savings. Medical homes: Example is Center Light patient, New York City. They believe in continuous care and the fees for patient care are paid on participation basis by Medicare and Medicaid services, US health care financing agency. This program is working with association of government approved health centers who claim that they can make difference with this model in patient results. Advantage to patients: Government is helping them as lot many American population will be able to get patient care at affordable prices. Retail clinics: It forms a major part of healthcare system. Both government and private are partnering to provide fundamental services readily to some specific recurring infections like treat flu and throat problems etc. with no delay due to fixing appointment. Example: Careworks, a U.S. retail clinic company under flagship of Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pa. Retail clinics. Advantage to patients: This could make hospitals less crowded as for small ailments people will go to retail clinics.