Building on the momentum of the Home Care Summits and recognizing the potential “ripple effect” of expanding the dissemination beyond the Summit participants, the CHCA has undertaken to document and publicize a selection of these innovative practices from across the country as High Impact Practices. [...] The program is about leveraging ex- who require this treatment, and for caregivers and pertise in equipment utilization and management to home care staff who organize the logistics of delivery support home care programs to better manage deploy- and return. [...] Sometimes are better served, the return on investment for the referred to as ‘resource levelling’, the technique is to equipment is increased and the home care program’s manage the stock of resources in order to reduce both overhead costs to manage the product are reduced. [...] Once therapy is initiated, clients typ- • Reduce the amount of bureaucracy associated with ically require home visits by a registered nurse three tracking the units on the part of the CCAC times per week: a reduction from the daily or twice daily visits that would, in some circumstances, other- • Simplify the process for returning the units for the wise be required. [...] The nurse monitors the wound pro- nurses and caregivers in the community gression and changes the dressing and canister as required.
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