Services

Comprehensive consulting designed to enhance hospital operations, involving a holistic approach to optimizing all aspects of healthcare delivery. These services typically include but are not limited to:

1. Operational Efficiency: Streamlining processes to improve patient flow, reduce wait times, and enhance overall productivity. This involves workflow analysis, process re-engineering, and the implementation of best practices.
2. Financial Management: Improving financial performance through cost reduction strategies, revenue cycle management, and financial planning. 
3. Quality and Compliance: Ensuring adherence to healthcare standards and regulations. This includes developing quality improvement programs, conducting compliance audits, and implementing patient safety initiatives.
4. Technology Integration: Leveraging advanced technologies to improve patient care and operational efficiency. This covers electronic health record (EHR) optimization, telemedicine implementation, and cybersecurity measures.
5. Human Resources Management: Enhancing workforce performance through training, development, and strategic staffing. This also involves leadership coaching and employee engagement initiatives.
6. Patient Experience: Improving patient satisfaction and engagement through service design, patient feedback mechanisms, and customer service training for staff.
7. Strategic Planning: Developing long-term strategies to achieve organizational goals. This includes market analysis, business development, and strategic partnerships.
8. Facility Management: Optimizing the physical environment of the hospital to ensure it is conducive to patient care and operational efficiency. This covers space utilization, maintenance planning, and environmental sustainability.

By addressing these areas, hospital operations are  transformed, leading to better patient outcomes, increased efficiency, and sustainable growth.

Comprehensive consulting services encompassing a range of strategic, operational, and financial solutions aimed at optimizing the overall performance and efficiency of the practice. These services typically include but are not limited to:

1. Operational Assessment and Workflow Optimization: Evaluating current processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies and implementing best practices to streamline operations, reduce wait times, and enhance patient satisfaction.
2. Financial Management and Revenue Cycle Improvement: Offering expertise in billing, coding, and collections to maximize revenue. This includes optimizing payer contracts, reducing claim denials, and implementing effective financial reporting and budgeting practices.
3. Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management: Ensuring the practice adheres to all relevant healthcare regulations and standards, including HIPAA, OSHA, and other federal and state requirements. This includes conducting compliance audits and implementing risk mitigation strategies.
4. Practice Growth and Marketing Strategies: Developing and executing marketing plans to attract new patients and retain existing ones. This may involve digital marketing, community outreach, branding, and patient engagement initiatives.
5. Technology Integration and Health IT Solutions: Advising on the selection and implementation of electronic health records (EHR) systems, telemedicine platforms, and other health IT solutions to improve patient care and data management.
6. Staff Training and Development: Providing training programs for clinical and administrative staff to enhance their skills, improve patient interactions, and maintain high standards of care.
7. Strategic Planning and Business Development: Assisting with long-term strategic planning, including market analysis, service line expansion, and partnership development to ensure sustainable growth and competitiveness.

By optimizing these areas, medical practices can achieve higher efficiency, better patient outcomes, and increased profitability, ultimately enhancing their overall success and sustainability.

Every project that we engage in is unique and deserves special focus and attention to detail.  Our philosophy is centered on proven principles of results-based work.  Process is very important, but the main goal of any engagement is to produce meaningful results.

The financial and operational health of the surgical department is extremely important to the hospital. It used to provide 20% of a hospital’s overall profit, but as reimbursements have dropped, roughly 10% to 15% is expected. This is still a significant portion of the hospital’s total revenue, in fact it is typically the biggest revenue producing department for a hospital.

This makes it crucial to consider the overall condition of the OR’s financial and operational efficiency, and its resulting profitability. It is necessary to consistently reach new levels of sophistication in terms of the ability to measure, monitor, and adjust processes. Hospital staff, surgeons and their office staff, outside vendors, and the anesthesia group have to work together like parts of a mechanical watch to make the patient experience the best it can be. It must also be done in a financially sustainable way, which also results in higher morale for all parties involved.

The anesthesia department plays a pivotal role in both financial and operational aspects of the OR, and must be a very active participant in the efforts to align all invested parties. Transparency and collaboration are key aspects of the relationship. All coverage needs and costs must be analyzed. Each expense category must be broken down and reviewed so that the hospital and anesthesia group can reach mutually acceptable terms.

For example, when negotiating contracted coverage and stipend levels, the largest component is provider salaries. When evaluating this area, careful consideration must be given to what the market bears. Paying too much could be wasteful to the hospital, but paying too low, may result in high turnover and less desirable providers that have no other options.

Finally, trustworthiness is one of the most crucial aspects when choosing an anesthesia group. This allows for robust decisions in regard to coverage, costs, and the ability to scale up or down during times of growth or contraction.