Supporting Clinical and Operational Excellence
Our clinical consulting services use the best practices and processes to empower your health system and your community to achieve optimal patient clinical resource management.
Clinical Resource Management
Understanding and Improving use of Clinical Resources Throughout the Hospital to Impact Revenue, Enhance Patient Throughput, and Manage Costs
Between mergers and acquisitions, regulatory changes, and organizational silos, understanding what processes and systems need improvement for financial stability can be a challenge. We help you identify and then solve the inefficiencies issues along the care continuum that drive up total costs, reduce reimbursement, create poor resource utilization, increase unnecessary lengths of stay, and impact inappropriate levels of care.
Achieve optimal patient outcomes and improve clinical resource management.
Our approach brings forward the best practices and processes that enable health systems by:
- Establishing effective capacity planning
- Uncovering unseen cost saving opportunities
- Impacting revenue potential
- Improving organization clinical operational capabilities and reducing variations across the enterprise
Surgical Services Optimization
Optimizing Surgical Services to Improve Patient Care and the Bottom Line
Operating rooms must be highly functioning to deliver expected care outcomes and keep patients safe and satisfied. The QHR Health team provides proven and tested techniques to improve surgical suite efficiency, enhance patient satisfaction and help client ORs become their region’s care destination of choice.
QHR Health featured capabilities include:
- Developing surgeon engagement strategies
- Reducing care variability and improving patient safety
- Creating effective OR throughput plans
- Improving communication between OR staff and physicians
- Standardizing room setup
- Ensuring OR leadership has the right tools to run an efficient OR
- Allocating scheduling blocks appropriately
- Reducing costs and enhancing OR contribution to hospital care delivery and financial goals
Quality Programs
Infection Prevention and Regulatory Readiness
QHR Health works with clients to ensure that clinical programs proactively address regulatory changes and requirements, infection prevention and performance improvement programs and risk mitigation strategies. Our state of continual regulatory readiness approach helps administrative and clinical teams stay on top of the issues that can impact a hospital’s clinical, financial and reputation performance.
Our program ensures that clients:
- Implement methodologies and systems that impact in-patient infection rates
- Are confident their quality programs meet the expectations of the Department of Justice and Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services
- Actively instill a culture that engages stakeholders in compliance programs promotes ethical behavior
QHR Health featured capabilities include:
- Quality Program assessment and development
- Infection Prevention program assessment and development
- Regulatory Readiness program assessment and deployment of continual regulatory readiness tools and methodologies
- Clinical operations & performance assessments
Lean Healthcare
Healthcare’s only constant is change. In order to meet the challenges of change and continuously improve, QHR Health deploys Lean Healthcare experts.
Our Lean Healthcare program provides access to:
- Health System Lean Transformation
- Lean Training and Bootcamps for staff and leadership
- Lean Green Belt and Black Belt Certifications
- Rapid Improvement Events tailored to unique needs
- Support and mentorship through the Lean Journey
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