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  • Healthcare Management
  • Public Health Policy
  • Cognitive Impairment Services

Background:

  • Guardianship resources face significant stress, with demand exceeding funding.
  • Hospital-based applicants are often deprioritized, leading to prolonged guardian allocation wait times.
  • Cognitively impaired patients experience extended hospital stays due to delayed guardianship.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of increased public advocate guardian availability on allocation wait times.
  • To investigate the effects on patient discharge outcomes and healthcare system demand.
  • To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of dedicated hospital guardian teams.

Main Methods:

  • A multi-institutional pilot program established a dedicated hospital guardian team within the Office of the Public Advocate (OPA).
  • A quasi-experimental historical control group design was employed, analyzing 12-month pre- and post-implementation cohorts.
  • Data collection focused on guardianship order lodgement to allocation time and patient length of stay.

Main Results:

  • The time from guardianship order lodgement to guardian allocation decreased from 46.5 to 22.9 days (P < 0.0001).
  • Mean total hospital length of stay reduced from 163.2 to 148.5 days.
  • The reduction in wait time yielded an estimated A$15,473 per patient in savings, with a $5 return for every $1 spent on staffing.

Conclusions:

  • Allocating resources to external services like OPA can yield substantial savings for health services.
  • The pilot program successfully reduced waiting times for vulnerable patients requiring guardians.
  • Improving patient flow can be achieved by addressing external bottlenecks, such as guardian allocation delays.