Health Systems Integration

The Problem

Alternate Level of Care (ALC) patients are a pressing health system performance challenge that involves multiple health service providers, including hospitals, CCACs, and other institutional and community providers. Improving ALC management requires a deep understanding of health system integration including transition points, roles, processes and cost implications. How can health system integration work to improve ALC management for the benefit of patients, their families and health service providers?

Our Methodology

RWS helps bridge the gap between the acute and community sector to improve the management of the ALC population:

• Identify, classify and map ALC populations and destination options
• Create high-performing care paths, transition processes and integration models with health sector partners
• Assess the implications for operational and resource demands in the acute, community and alternative care settings

The Outcome

By making integration work, the community sector can play a critical role in improving ALC management - for patient population groups, individual patients and their families, and health service providers. The right analysis and planning can help health system partners identify creative ways to address capacity, process and resource constraints.