Abstract
Although care coordination is not a new concept, it has been fraught with a myriad of definitions. Among these, core themes can be gleaned to help the home healthcare clinician understand their role and responsibilities as part of a high-functioning team. For a shift from volume to value to occur, in a way that is meaningful to the patient, a holistic paradigm needs to be fully embraced by all members of the interdisciplinary team. As healthcare continues to shift to a fair-market demand for services system, transparency becomes a driver for patient information and choice. Care coordination, clinical outcomes, and consumerism in this new era become integrally linked. Home care clinicians have a higher level of accountability to deliver patient-centered care that necessitates shifting from a "disease state" mentality to a view that encompasses mind, body, and spirit in totality. Home healthcare agencies will need to view their own organization as occurring within a maturation cycle of interdisciplinary team development and continually strive for exceptional care delivery, transparency in outcomes, and full team collaboration with a holistic mindset, in order to make the shift from volume to value that will be necessary to thrive.