WGU D046 INTRO TO CARE
COORDINATION COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● Clear communication Index
Answer: provides a set of research based tool to help develop and aid
understanding of public messages and materials
●● Community Health
Answer: Help the community advance to their health who are living in
poverty. People living in poverty will need to learn about healthy eating.
●● Population Health
Answer: ◦Reflect outcomes of care for the population.
◦Based on age, ACO driven for kids and some medicare recipients.
◦Reimburse how to we achieve outcomes in the community.
●● Difference: health system has a major role in community Health and
Population Health.
Answer: Community Health: Hospital and health systems be involved to
understand their community. Helps advance heath.
,Population Health: reimbursed how the outcomes is achieved in the
community
●● Implication of Health
Answer: ◦ provides context to nurse' practices, roles and knowledge and
frames patient's Day to day lives of patients.
Examples:
◦Patients who face social and/or economic barriers to gain access to
community resources and strategic partners
◦ Resources are not available in their area
Challenges
◦ To patients and their families to understand why healthcare is so
important
◦ Coordination of patient care may be difficult if the resources are not
available in the area
●● What is the goal for care coordination?
Answer: The goal for care coordination is achieving the "Quadruple
Aim":
· Improve physician's experience
· Improve patient outcomes
· Lower Cost of Care
· Improved patient experience (Safety)
,●● "Quadruple Aim":
Answer: - driving down healthcare costs
- Improve outcomes based on evidence and based on interventions
- deliver benefits to those with multiple needs
- improve experiences with the system
●● Care coordinators:
Answer: · organize care provided by multiple providers
· improves disease management and patient compliance
· offers resources
· removes barriers.
●● Key Roles of the Care Coordinator
Answer: 1) Connect patients' with resources partnerships that provide
services to help patients' achieve their healthcare goals
2) To help patients understand why the services are important.
3) When cost is a barrier, the care coordination process also involves
seeking low or no-cost public health options.
4) To seek the services of organizations that receive private or
government funds to provide care and services to various patient
populations.
, ●● Key components of care management include:
Answer: (1) work process redesign,
(2) population management, and
(3) data analytics and infrastructure support.
●● . Identify the goals of the ACO's
Answer: · Control costs in health care
· Improve health care quality
· encourage lower cost, higher quality, and better coordinated
●● Clinical-community linkages.
Answer: · help to connect health care providers, community
organizations, and public health agencies so they can improve patients'
access to preventive and chronic care services.
· Coordinating health care delivery, public health, and community-based
activities to promote healthy behavior.
· Forming partnerships and relationships among clinical, community,
and public health organizations to fill gaps in needed services.
· Promoting patient, family, and community involvement in strategic
planning and improvement activities.
●● clinical-community linkages offer
Answer: Patients get more help in how to change unhealthy behaviors.
COORDINATION COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
●● Clear communication Index
Answer: provides a set of research based tool to help develop and aid
understanding of public messages and materials
●● Community Health
Answer: Help the community advance to their health who are living in
poverty. People living in poverty will need to learn about healthy eating.
●● Population Health
Answer: ◦Reflect outcomes of care for the population.
◦Based on age, ACO driven for kids and some medicare recipients.
◦Reimburse how to we achieve outcomes in the community.
●● Difference: health system has a major role in community Health and
Population Health.
Answer: Community Health: Hospital and health systems be involved to
understand their community. Helps advance heath.
,Population Health: reimbursed how the outcomes is achieved in the
community
●● Implication of Health
Answer: ◦ provides context to nurse' practices, roles and knowledge and
frames patient's Day to day lives of patients.
Examples:
◦Patients who face social and/or economic barriers to gain access to
community resources and strategic partners
◦ Resources are not available in their area
Challenges
◦ To patients and their families to understand why healthcare is so
important
◦ Coordination of patient care may be difficult if the resources are not
available in the area
●● What is the goal for care coordination?
Answer: The goal for care coordination is achieving the "Quadruple
Aim":
· Improve physician's experience
· Improve patient outcomes
· Lower Cost of Care
· Improved patient experience (Safety)
,●● "Quadruple Aim":
Answer: - driving down healthcare costs
- Improve outcomes based on evidence and based on interventions
- deliver benefits to those with multiple needs
- improve experiences with the system
●● Care coordinators:
Answer: · organize care provided by multiple providers
· improves disease management and patient compliance
· offers resources
· removes barriers.
●● Key Roles of the Care Coordinator
Answer: 1) Connect patients' with resources partnerships that provide
services to help patients' achieve their healthcare goals
2) To help patients understand why the services are important.
3) When cost is a barrier, the care coordination process also involves
seeking low or no-cost public health options.
4) To seek the services of organizations that receive private or
government funds to provide care and services to various patient
populations.
, ●● Key components of care management include:
Answer: (1) work process redesign,
(2) population management, and
(3) data analytics and infrastructure support.
●● . Identify the goals of the ACO's
Answer: · Control costs in health care
· Improve health care quality
· encourage lower cost, higher quality, and better coordinated
●● Clinical-community linkages.
Answer: · help to connect health care providers, community
organizations, and public health agencies so they can improve patients'
access to preventive and chronic care services.
· Coordinating health care delivery, public health, and community-based
activities to promote healthy behavior.
· Forming partnerships and relationships among clinical, community,
and public health organizations to fill gaps in needed services.
· Promoting patient, family, and community involvement in strategic
planning and improvement activities.
●● clinical-community linkages offer
Answer: Patients get more help in how to change unhealthy behaviors.
