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The closest wriiten references are to Eric WOlstenholmes work on UK health and community care
The most accessible is

A patient flow perspective of U.K. health services: exploring the case for new intermediate care initiatives

Eric Wolstenholme
System Dynamics Review
Winter 1999

and there are others by Eric Wolstenholme
A Management Flight Simulator for Community Care
In Book Enhancing Health Services Management The role of decision support systems Edited by Steve Cropper and Paul Forte Open University Press

Organizational re-engineering using systems modelling: Rediscovering the physics of the health service
IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Medicine & Biology 1995, 12, 283-296

A Case Study in Community Care Using Systems Thinking
J Opl Res Soc 1993 44, 925-934


A recent issue of Medical Care has four relevant US articles on the subject including one from RAND Corporation:

Forecasting the Nursing Home Population
DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, PHD, DANA P. GOLDMAN, PHD, JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD,
MICHAEL D. HURD, PHD, GEOFFREY F. JOYCE, PHD, AND CONSTANTIJN W.A. PANIS, PHD

MEDICAL CARE 2003
Volume 41, Number 1, pp 8–20

Id also recommend the book
The Dynamics of Human Service Delivery 1976
by Gilbert Levin and Edward B Roberts et al
Ballinger ISBN 0 88410 132 0

We have done some unpublished work in the area of disabled accommodation in Australia Id be happy to discuss further by email


regards

Geoff McDonnell
Director Adaptive Care Systems
Mobile 0419 016 116
gmcdonne@bigpond.net.au