- Emergency Department
- Compliance Challenges
- CMS Physician Supervision
- Effective Compliance Plans
- Quality Risk and Compliance
- Coding DRG RUG DME Correctly
- Compliance and Litigation Support Services
- Compliance and Privacy Program Assessment
- Balanced Analytic Revenue and Compliance Reporter
- Care Management
- Interim Management
- Community Benefit Program
- Physician Practice Acquisition
- Strategic Development and Business Planning
- Fair Market Value Determinations and Acquisitions
- EPIC
- Lean Six Sigma
- Arbitration Services
- Charge Master Solutions
- Electronic Health Record
- Managed Care Strategies
- Managed Care Contracting
- Nursing and Clinical Services
- Medical Practice Assessment
- Observation vs Inpatient Status
- Home Care Agency Compliance
- Reducing Hospital Readmissions
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Clinical Documentation Improvement Program
- Revenue Capture
- Outpatient Revenues
- Centralized Business Office
- Revenue Cycle Improvement
- Medical Practice Accounts Receivable Effectiveness
- Balanced Analytic Revenue and Compliance Reporter
Patient Care Throughput
The Challenge: Satisfying Patients, Providers and Reaching Improved Financial Performance
By finding ways to transform and optimize workflow processes, a hospital can have an improved positive impact while increasing patient, staff and provider satisfaction.
Few hospital areas are designed to achieve optimal flow of patients, including the Emergency Department, Intensive Care Unit, and operating rooms and their related pre- and post-care areas creating major bottlenecks. These bottlenecks often result in unpredictable diversions, increased patient wait time, housing inpatients in ED, and longer length of stays.
Identifying that there is a problem is the first step. Then it’s necessary to have the right clinical and operational staff to determine the why and the resolution – all the while assuring that all quality and regulatory requirements are met.
Our Focus —
Beginning to End
Services
• Patient Access
• Patient Placement
• Patient Care Delivery
• Patient Discharge
Our Approach
• Evaluating patient flow -determining hurdles and opportunities
• Designing changes for improvement
• Implementing process changes
• Mentoring - one - on - one with consultants experienced in focused area
• Measuring results
• Continued training and tools for sustainable results.
Our Results
• Reduced Emergency Department LOS
• Increased ED capacity thus reducing diversion rates
• Reduced left without being seen percent
• Reduced surgery cancellations
• Reduced patient care costs (per unit of service)
KOHLER HealthCare Consulting, Inc. (KHC) has been a leader in improving the financial results of hospitals and professional fee practices for over 30 years.
We start by understanding your needs and your concerns. Our patient care throughput team brings a variety of applicable skill sets and experience to the patient throughput challenges that hospitals face. Our team includes nurses with direct operational and leadership experience in acute care nursing, emergency services, surgical services, and case management, and those with extensive experience in all aspects of revenue cycle management. Analytic resources, with particular focus on statistical and queuing analyses, provide support to the team and add rigor to the findings.
Our overall goal is to improve the function and financial results of your organization and provide internal monitoring tools to perform effective interventions resulting in improved results. We are there when you need us; however, our goal for your organization is self-sufficiency. KHC works collaboratively to bring the components together.
Customized education, development of purpose tools and implementation sets us apart from the companies that sell a one size fits all approach.
Contact us to help
put the pieces together
(410) 461 − 5116
Collaboration + Knowledge = Sustainable Results
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