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Development of Community Health Center-Based Hospice Management Model: Pilot Project at a Community Health Center in Busan  

Kim, Sook-Nam (College of Nursing, Catholic University of Busan)
Choi, Soon-Ock (College of Nursing, Catholic University of Busan)
Kim, Young-Jae (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inje University)
Lee, So-Ra (Geumjeong-gu Community Health Center)
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care / v.13, no.2, 2010 , pp. 109-119 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study was a part of a drive to develop a community health center-based hospice management model which is concerned with hospice care at a community health care setting and available resources of the local community. Methods: Development of a community health center-based hospice management model involved evaluation of existing hospice-related research, including literature review, and research on hospice facilities at the study site, as well as evaluation of model operation. The latter involved community health center-based hospice test operation, and evaluation of test operation by a research team, including of a nursing professor majoring in hospice care and staffs from a community health center in Busan metropolitan city, regional cancer center, and regional terminal cancer patient medical institute. The study was conducted in the 2008 calendar year. Results: The community health center-based hospice management model provides service linked with local community resources, focusing on the local community health center. Financial and administrative assistance is provided by the regional cancer center, with collaboration from academic health care professionals who guide the operation management. The community health center hospice nurse in consultation with a visiting nurse team registers terminally-ill cancer patients and, after assessment, the hospice team prioritize hospice care during team meeting. Care is delivered by staffs and volunteers. Conclusion: The developed community health center-based hospice operation management model maximally utilizes available community health resources to produce qualitative improvement of regional health and welfare policy through improving the lives of home-based cancer patients and their family who are in medical blind spot.
Keywords
Community health centers; Hospices; Organization and administration; Organizational model; Pilot projects;
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