Interprofessional Team Development: A Patient and Family Centered Care

Western Governor’s University: C158
May 11th, 2016

Interprofessional Team Development: A Patient and Family Centered Care Approach
Approach to patient care has changed over the last three decades from patient treatment-focused model to include comforting, engaging, and empowering patients. The new approach implements patient-centered care environments. It has been adopted by care providers, research bodies, funding agencies, and regulatory agencies, among others. To enhance patient-centered care, business practices, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement regulatory procedures have been adopted. This is evident by the regulations of Joint Commission and the provision of services by Medicare Medicaid services (CMS). In this paper, the impact of business practices, regulatory requirements, and reimbursement procedures on patient-centered care is discussed. A multidisciplinary approach on a process improvement enhancing Patient and Family Centered Focus Care is outlined in a hospital located in Arizona.
Regulatory Requirements and Healthcare Business
In 1996 the Institute of Medicine took on healthcare improvement to resolve unsafe care by ambitiously moving toward quality initiatives. The release of “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System19 (1999) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001)” focused on the fails of the healthcare systems pointing out that over 98,000 patients die in hospitals annual due to some sort of medical error (Roussell, 2011). This report was the source of the new transformation of healthcare delivery brigding gaps from a state of broken system to an ideal state of evidence based care. Consumers are well aware of the possibilities of hospital errors and quality care and have become aware of number of business case practices, regulations, and reimbursement