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Post Acute Care Constituency Section

As hospitals have devoted more resources to the continuum of care, they have diversified their services to include home care, long term care, and rehabilitation. In turn, IHA has diversified its membership services to facilitate hospitals' ability to deliver high value care that is consistent with community needs. Often, these diversified health services involve health care finance and regulatory issues that are separate and distinct from those affecting acute care services. Specialized education programs and resource materials are often required.

To fulfill these demands in a time of limited resources and undiminished demands from core hospital services, in 1988, the IHA Board of Trustees approved a structure for formal, separately funded constituency sections. The first such section was established for rehabilitation services that same year. In 1993, the sections were integrated into the IHA core membership services and IHA hospitals providing the identified service automatically are members of respective sections as part of their IHA dues. In 2000, a new section, Post Acute Care, was created to focus on issues in the areas of home care, rehabilitation, and long term care. This action allowed for the blending of three separate sections into one to better position IHA in the Post Acute arena. While there is now one Post Acute Care Constituency Section, there are three separate Interest Groups for Home Care, Long-Term Care, and Rehabilitation, so that communications can be targeted.

Benefits and Services:

• Tracking and responding to legislation.
• Monitoring federal and state regulatory developments.
• Providing data resources, including the development of section-specific data.
• Conducting educational programs and networking opportunities.
• Sending regular communication, including IHA's weekly news briefing, The Reporter.

Governance:
The activities of the Post Acute Care Constituency Section are governed by the Steering Committee which is elected by the membership annually. The Steering Committee coordinates all Section activities and sets policy and long range goals. Legislative, regulatory, education, data, finance, membership, and resource allocation issues are their responsibility.

Staff Contact: Ann Guild: (630) 276-5496