The National Institute for Medical Respite Care (NIMRC) has developed several resources to guide and support medical respite programs to deliver high quality care, while providing flexibility to accommodate the diversity of program and community needs, which are described in the Framework for Medical Respite Care, and include:
- The Guiding Principles for Medical Respite Care
- The Standards for Medical Respite Care Programs
- The Models of Medical Respite Care
The Guiding Principles are rooted in evidence-based practices and were developed with input from the field of medical respite care providers; they are central to how services are implemented. Therefore, NIMRC identified the need to establish an additional tool that would measure fidelity to the Guiding Principles. This resulted in the development of The Fidelity Measure of the Guiding Principles of Medical Respite Care (Fidelity Measure). The process for developing this measure and its application to the field of medical respite care are described in the White Paper: Development and Application of the Fidelity Measure to the Guiding Principles of Medical Respite Care.
