The forecast for surgical services is growth, especially in certain subspecialties such as orthopedics, general surgery, spine and neurosurgery. This increased demand is fueled by an aging population, new technology and general population growth. In addition, an increased demand for inpatient services is present and is creating bottlenecks in emergency rooms, critical care units and surgery. All of these factors together are creating operational issues (e.g., scheduling inefficiencies, underutilized surgery suits, delayed case starts and prolonged turnover, non-standardized preoperative processes, increased case costs, equipment and inventory issues, and dissatisfied surgeons that affect the profitability of the surgical service line).
At the same time, increasing competition for surgical patients is occurring between freestanding surgery centers, specialty hospitals and acute care hospitals. In addition, as physicians feel the pressure of decreasing reimbursement related to managed care and federal/state reimbursement, hospital inefficiencies and sicker patients, the efficient and high-throughput surgical facilities are becoming more attractive to specialty surgeons. Specialists are willing to shift their cases to more efficient facilities and/or look at other business arrangements. Competition for surgical patients is forcing surgery providers to reengineer their operations to provide greater service, improve efficiency and maintain physician loyalty.
Following are several of our major service offerings in Surgery.(CEO, COO, CFO, CNO, CIO, and Other Administrative Positions)
Frequently, organizations find themselves without key senior leadership positions filled. During this interim period, it is important that business move forward while new leadership is being recruited. Health Evolutions can provide highly- experienced people to fill those senior leadership positions for an interim time, as well as assist in recruiting new leadership.
Health Evolutions can provide a full range of assessment tools and services for all types of critical operational areas for all sizes of physician practices and related organizations. Our techniques include extensive data analysis, on-site visits and interviews, deployment of audit-type tools for gathering information and reporting findings and conclusions, development of specific recommendations to address process and outcome shortcomings, and, if needed, project management services to implement approved recommendations.
Health Evolutions can provide a full range of performance evaluation services for healthcare providers, including assessment of existing tools and processes; design and implementation of new tools and processes; management training around performance evaluation effectiveness; and integration with strategic and business planning goals.
Health Evolutions assists organizations in both organization-wide and service-specific strategy development. We emphasize the importance of developing strategies that can be effectively implemented and the tools to help monitor their progress and achievement.
