Shared governance: An effective tool for home care management

Abstract

Health care managers today are being challenged to structure their organizations so that they can respond quickly and effectively to rapid changes in the health care arena. One way to do this is to empower staff through a shared governance model. Although hospital organizations have been the pioneers in establishing shared governance for professional staff, home care agen cies may also benefit from applying the lessons learned. Because home care organizations de pend on a full spectrum of employees, clinical and nonclinical, for their success, a case study demonstrates the advantage of including all agency personnel in home care shared governance models. Key words: home health care, management, shared governance