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Through our blog we hope to provide information and insight to assist leadership in the overall strategic direction and execution of operations, particularly as it applies to community healthcare providers.
Mastering the Building Blocks of Team-Based Care
Posted on December 11, 2019
As more provider organizations embrace team-based care as a way to achieve their value-based care goals and provide a better patient experience, they’re also discovering that successfully implementing team-based care is easier said than done. Siloed information, conflicting cultures, competing interests, breakdowns in communication—these and other barriers can make it difficult for teams to work together in the interest of patient care.
Critical Strategies for Interim Leaders
Posted on December 03, 2019
Interim leadership: It’s a big job, but somebody has to do it. And there’s too much at stake in healthcare today for an interim leader to simply keep the seat warm. It’s not uncommon for hospital boards to charge interim leaders with much more than maintaining the status quo while they search for the next permanent leader.
Cover These Topics When Vetting Revenue Cycle Vendors
Posted on November 21, 2019
The right technology can help your organization optimize reimbursement, streamline disjointed workflows and minimize revenue cycle-related expenses. But with so many different vendors touting their own version of the solution, the vetting and decision-making process can be overwhelming.
Strategic Planning for Hospitals Becomes Critical Amid Change
Posted on November 14, 2019
Where are we now? Where should we be going? How will we get there? And how will we know if we are successful? No matter what the market landscape looks like, these are good questions to ask—and answer—on a regular basis.
Kaizen Events Hold the Key to Quality Improvement
Posted on November 07, 2019
The quality improvement principles of lean are particularly well-suited to the healthcare industry because of their potential to build efficient care pathways that put patients first.
Follow These Tips to Build a More Diverse Leadership Team
Posted on October 30, 2019
When a hospital’s leadership team is diverse, good things happen. A frequently cited McKinsey study focuses on the financial returns of a successful diversity strategy. But in healthcare, it’s about so much more than financial returns.
Use Combo Codes Correctly to Maximize Revenue
Posted on October 14, 2019
Combination codes are hardly a new concept for provider organizations, but the inception of the ICD-10 coding system upped the ante, introducing more codes that provide increasing levels of specificity of acuity. As if that’s not complicated enough, the guidelines for how to use combo codes keep changing, says Julie Seaman, CCS, CCS-P, coding and CDI director for eCatalyst Healthcare Solutions.
Avoid Making These Mistakes on Your Clinical QI Initiatives
Posted on October 09, 2019
Not every hospital or physician practice that adheres to the Lean approach is successful in achieving those goals. And it’s usually because they’re making one or all of these mistakes.
Making the Case: Hospitals Need More Diversity in Leadership
Posted on October 02, 2019
Projections by the U.S. Census Bureau show that America’s demographics are changing. Racial and ethnic minorities will become the majority by 2043, but what will the C-suites of the hospitals that serve them look like? If the present is any indication, the future boards and C-suites might continue to be dominated by older white men.
Strategic Partnership, M&A, Management Contract – What Is Right For You?
Posted on September 18, 2019
Rural hospital closures are a reality facing communities across the country. Since 2010, 113 rural hospitals have shuttered, with the majority of those closures happening in the South. The North Carolina Rural Hospital Research Program points to multiple contributing factors, including changing population demographics, decreased demand for inpatient services, market trends that currently favor M&A, and Medicaid expansion (or lack thereof).