The Launch of Your New Group Visit and Thereafter

Abstract

The day has finally come to launch your new group visit! Regardless of whether you have chosen to implement the DIGMA, CHCC, or PSMA model in your practice, much hard work has gone into properly designing and implementing your SMA program. The following sections discuss the actual flow of your DIGMA or PSMA in considerable detail, both during the launch and continuously thereafter. At this point, to gain insight as to how your new group visit will flow from start to finish during the launch, turn to the relevant sections of the chapters of this implementation manual that specifically apply the group visit model you have selected (especially Chap.2, the appropriate walk through and mock DIGMA or PSMA discussion in Chap. 7, and what immediately follows in this chapter). In the following sections of this chapter, Part 1 applies to launching your new DIGMA; Part 2 applies to launching your new PSMA; Part 3 applies to what you should be doing on an ongoing basis after the launch of your new group visit program; Part 4 addresses launching additional SMAs throughout a system when moving the program from pilot study to rapid organization-wide deployment; and Part 5 contains some final thoughts.