Although, complexity of
the tool itself is a key reason why its application has been difficult, internal
capacity of the organisation to coordinate the delivery of pain management and
palliative care intervention can lack the sophistication needed to optimise
results, as much in terms of quality care as in financial return.
Such areas of service
delivery are reliant on a coordinated approach to service delivery due to the
many determinants required to support claiming in such areas.
The One Care
Network Aged Care Funding Optimisation Model
has been developed as an innovative service
delivery model that brings together unique information technology creations
within a communication and organizational structure to improve the internal
capacity of a residential aged care facility to support the delivery of such
important aspects of service delivery today.
As commonwealth
prerogative continues to move in the direction of increasing available places
within the community aged care sector, residents requiring accommodation within
the residential segment are frailer and require more palliative oriented
services supporting complex pain management and other complimentary therapies.
The challenge for
operators today is the delivery of such services within a sustainable program
that controls the risks associated with the application of the new ACFI so that
appropriately funded services are being delivered to residents in line with
their higher care needs.
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