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Continuum of care can be defined as health care settings that provide ongoing or longer-term management of patients after their initial phase of illness or condition has been treated.
Continuing management of patient care may be indicated for
· Management and follow-up of the healing or convalescent process
· Restorative services to allow a patient to return to their former baseline activities
· Ongoing care and management of chronic conditions
· Continuing treatment of acute conditions that have not yet been resolved
Patients are usually transferred to these settings following treatment in an acute hospital. Continuum of care settings include inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, home health, dialysis, and long term acute care hospitals.
RESOURCES
The Continuum of Care Committee is presenting reprints of articles created by the committee for the CHIA Journal. As an added value of service to our membership, we feel it is important to reproduce on the CHIA Web site those articles that are still relevant for easy reference. After publication in the CHIA Journal, each of the articles created by our committee in the future will be made available for your reference three months after printing. We hope that you enjoy having the knowledge of your Continuum of Care Committee readily at hand.
To view any of the following articles, simply click on the titles.
Long term hospital care (October 06)
Medicare therapy caps: Implications for Rehabilitation and HIM Professionals (September 06)
Coding articles are also posted on the CHIA Web site. They may be viewed by Clicking Here.
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