Hospital Admission Risk Program (HARP)
Eastern HARP program
The Eastern HARP program comprises a number of innovative services and projects funded since 2000 designed to respond rapidly and comprehensively with coordinated planned and managed care and access to specialist services for people at risk of presentation or admission to hospital.
Examples are: Care Coordination in the Emergency Department, Client-focused Integrated Disease Management (CIDM), Respecting Patient Choices (RPC) and Integrated Response to Complex Needs in the Community, many of these in collaboration with community based service providers.
The Community Response Project is a collaboration of Eastern Health (Metropolitan Health Service) and Eastern Primary Care Partnerships, Community Health Services, Divisions of General Practice, RDNS and Care Management providers (UCCO & Care Connect) and has been funded in principle from 2003/04 through to 30 June 2007.
The Community Response Project is dedicated to responding to people who have presented to or are at risk of presenting to hospital.
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Health Professionals
A range of Allied Health and Nursing professionals will provide clinical services in response to both Acute and Chronic Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions for the targeted cohorts. This response will operate on 2 levels; the provision of rapid responses to clients with acute exacerbations of health conditions against the backdrop of existing chronic and/or complex health needs and the development and provision of tertiary response initiatives.
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Key Priorities
Key priorities for clinical services under the HARP Community Response in order to impact on hospital presentations and admissions for those identified at risk of this are:-
** Providing rapid clinical response to the identified target group
** Embedding the service response into the agency partnering for the project to ensure sustainability and a more continuous continuum of care for health service consumers.
** Promoting self-management approaches
** Developing and providing sustainable community based tertiary response prevention
** Contributing to evidence development and integrated care model development
A team of clinicians are dispersed across a number of agencies and sectors in the Eastern service system.
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