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Home care agencies must plan for increasing demands from managed-care
organizations; federal, state, and local governments: and consumers to
provide appropriate, timely, high-duality, and cost-effective home he
althcare services. Providers of home care services need a methodology
to appropriately manage and control their service delivery. The Home C
are Steps(TM) protocols discussed in this article provide such a metho
dology.