Social Network Analysis and Relational Coordination: Empowering Nurse Administrators Leading Care Coordination Teams to Assess Improvement Opportunities

The authors describe an innovative way to measure and optimize cross-sector collaboration in teams coordinating complex care transitions. This model could be used by nurse administrators designing or managing cross-sector collaborative programs with community partners receiving patients at high-risk for readmission after hospital discharge, like people experiencing homelessness with multimorbid clinical needs, and adds to the growing literature on an innovative care concept known as cross-sector care coordination.