Blueprint for Heart Failure: A Physician's Guide to Establishing a Heart Failure Center in the Private Practice Setting

Blueprint for Heart Failure is the practical step-by-step guide that healthcare professionals need to design and build a heart failure disease management program in the private practice setting. In these pages, you will be given the tools you need to:

• Determine the staffing and physical facilities your program will need based upon the healthcare delivery model you select.
• Delineate management and day-to-day staff responsibilities to leverage physician resources.
• Assemble the financial projections critical to making your program fiscally sound.
• Clarify the key "go/no go" decision points in your program's growth and development.
• Clearly state the goals, scope, and strategies and tactics of your program in a business plan for your staff and for your partners.
• Identify clinical and financial benchmarks by which your program's success will be measured.
• Construct telemanagement protocols that match your treatment style.
• Develop the treatment algorithms, drug protocols, and standing orders you will need from examples given in the text.
• Position your program for success in your community.