Changing Attitudes: The Key to Achieving Hospital Productivity Gains
In today’s hospitals, it’s not uncommon to encounter defensiveness from inpatient unit managers who miss their productivity targets.
Tag: "hospital labor cost management"
Low-Cost, High-Quality Healthcare Can Be a Reality
with Smart Workforce Planning
Apr 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Is Healthcare Reform On the Wrong Track?
What everyone wants, in the end, is healthcare reform that accomplishes the goals of wider access and lower cost. But there are many different tracks to achieve this needed goals. But when “reducing the cost of healthcare” by mandating lower fees to providers, this should be more carefully analyzed to prevent a future of continuous change. Best [...]
Jul 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Implementing Force Multipliers to Reduce Hospital Costs
Force multiplication, in military usage, refers to a combination of attributes or advantages which make a given force more effective than another force of comparable size. A force multiplier refers to a factor that dramatically increases (hence “multiplies”) the effectiveness of a group. A hospital team can use this concept by combining labor cost management with case management.
Manage Labor Costs While Improving Patient Care
The Impact of Throughput on Labor Cost Improving hospital throughput maximizes the use of hospital assets – time, space, capacity, equipment, and human assets. Maximizing those assets leads to significant productivity gains. When throughput is increased, unnecessary work can be eliminated and existing staff can process added patient volume more effectively. Throughput improvement is especially [...]
Apr 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Compass Group Mission
Compass Clinical Consulting understands that hospitals are among the most complex organizations in existence. When clinical processes are not smoothly efficient, the physician, staff and patient experiences suffer – often leading to decreased market share, financial instability, or regulatory compliance issues. For 30 years, Compass Clinical Consulting has worked successfully with executive and clinical leaders [...]
Apr 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Revenue Cycle More Important than Ever During Recession
Smoothing out the claims cycle should involve careful scrutiny of claims before they are sent to payors to ensure they are properly coded and edited.
Apr 03, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Case studies to learn more about ways in which Compass Clinical has worked to create better American hospitals.