Business Case for Adoption

The Cost and Quality of Person-Directed Care

Project Start Date: 09/07

Representative models of culture change investment, outcomes and returns are based on a body of work of practitioners, researchers and policy makers at every stakeholder level. The collective work of these stakeholders provides further evidence that investing in a person-directed model of care is not only the right thing to do, it also makes perfect business sense as well.
 
To demonstrate the market viability of this model,  Pioneer Network is working to integrate the collective knowledge of those investing in transformations so that we can create practical models that connect the dots and de-mystify the costs of implementation. The goal of this work is to accelerate adoption and support implementation and sustainability by articulating the operational linkages between person-directed care, quality of care, and financing - The Case for Adoption.

The first year of this project tackled the following objectives:

Extract from adopters common features that promote successful implementation through case studies of implementation and sustainability (view Case Studies);  

Study how adopter outcomes translate into more quantifiable metrics and benchmark those metrics with national data (view National Data Comparisons and Cost and Quality Investigation);

Develop tools that assist providers in planning and budgeting for implementation including an investment model outlining areas of investment and returns on investment in culture change (view Investment Model).

Year 2 of this project will continue the development of the constructive tools, measurements, and benchmarks initiated above so that long-term care providers are able to better understand the planning, decision-making and budgeting of culture change to make it approachable and doable.   

Additional resource information including provider tools, articles and links are also assembled here.

To share your story and data on The Case for Adoption, please contact Amy Elliot at amyelliot@pioneernetwork.net or submit a "Stories from the Field" form. 

Click here to download the related press release, "Preliminary Research Supports Nursing Home Culture Change Movement."