Quick and proven solutions to healthcare's most pressing challenges.

Quick and proven solutions to healthcare's most pressing challenges.

Thursday, June 27, 2024

 Hospitals in Crisis?

Staff shortages are crippling hospitals. As a healthcare productivity consulting group, HS4HS / Compirion can help! We specialize in strategies to boost staff retention, optimize workflows, and empower your workforce through telehealth and cross-training, while capturing leakage and growing your bottom line. In nearly forty years of consulting we have never recommended a layoff. Why turn to firms that specialize in layoffs when trying to optimize your margin through retention and growth? Let's create a more efficient and sustainable healthcare system, together.
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Monday, May 15, 2023

HS4HS Services and Pricing Table 2023/24

HS4HS  Hospital / Health System consulting guaranteed maximum pricing for 2023/24.
You may cancel at any time without obligation. We guarantee all our work to your satisfaction and to any agreed targets.
Services
Critical Access/
Rural Hospital <50 Beds
Medium Hospital 50-150 Beds Large Hospital /  Health System
150-350 Beds
Acedemic / Regional Medical Center 350+ beds What you get
           
Housewide Productivity Infrastructure and Education $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 Productivity Monitoring System, Position Control Committee development and weekly facilitation, productivity education.
Assessment and SME
Full Implementation Project
0 0 0 0 Assessment and Implementation  of Business Operations, Workforce, Clinical Quality, Management Span, Throughput, Patient Scheduling, Patient and Provider Satisfaction, and Staff Engagement. Facilitation by subject matter experts. Includes benchmarks, budgets and best practices. Includes management education and full implementation support of priority initiatives. All services listed below are included (prices to the left are bundled per area and guaranteed maximum billing). Targeted Results Guaranteed.
Lab $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000
Imaging $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000
RT $6,000 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000
ED $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $50,000
PT/OT/SLT $6,000 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000
PeriOp $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000
Housekeeping / Facilities / Food Svc / Other $6,000 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000
Shared Services $6,000 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000
Inpatient Unit $6,000 $10,000 $20,000 $30,000
If you do not require full project work, you can select individual items as listed below
Assessment by Area $3,000 $7,000 $12,000 $22,000 Operations, Workforce, Throughput, Quality, Satisfaction Benchmarking and Best Practice Opportunity Assessment.
Housewide Assessment $12,000 $20,000 $32,000 $47,000 Operations, Workforce, Throughput, Quality, Satisfaction Benchmarking and Best Practice Opportunity Assessment.
           
Facilitation - Implementation Assistance
90 days per initiative
$12,000 Implementation of one service line initiative with full project management and team facilitation.
Housewide Productivity System Tools and Education $5,000 $10,000 $24,000 $30,000 PowerBI Productivity Tools Customized and  implemented. 
           
SaaS monthly Fee After the Project
(average fee based on typical number of users)
$1,000 $2,000 $4,000 $6,000 Ongoing education, support and maintenance of the productivity system.
SAAS Business Intelligence Dashboards
Per Dashboard
$5,000 Collaborative dashboard creation, maintenance and support: Includes workforce, throughput, quality, satisfaction, margin, and other key performance metrics as needed. Includes automated linkages to existing data cubes. Each dashboard is built to support a specific initiative, pilot study, and/or management position or process function.
Department Specfic Management Tools
Per tool
$5,000 Management tools developed to meet department heads' specification.
Housewide Span-of-Control / Organization Structure $2,000 $6,000 $10,000 $20,000 Span-of-Control ratio analysis, review of organizational  structure, assessment of management functions with new engineered span options to serve anticipated and proposed service line changes.
Retainer Consulting Services
 Per month (1 FT consultant is 18 days / month) for any additional work
$18,000 Monthly subject matter expert retainer for any additional requested consulting services.
Business Case / Proforma Development
Per day
$2,000  SME / Business Intelligence decision support services for defined project or initiative.
           
8-Week Management  Workshops  with full analytics and tools
Housewide Patient Experience Team
Per Team
$18,000 Includes analysis and review of current patient, provider and associate satisfaction and experience trends by clinical service line. New weekly dashboard includes metrics for patient leakage,  patient rescheduling, patient satisfaction scores, patient delay, patient acquisition and both patient and associate retention. Project  includes education and training on best practices  for learning and managing patient expectation; transferring the passion for healing and recovery progress into delighted patient experience; acknowledging colleague high performance; elimination of service delay; real-time satisfaction tracking tool development and implementation. Includes observation tools and analyses, behavioral training modules, post care patient call-back and crucial conversation scripting and modeling; hardwiring training strategies, procedures and policies.
Interim Management Team
Per Team
$18,000 Includes  analysis of the functions of vacant management and executive positions; reengineering, re-assignment, dashboard development and weekly progress review.
Patient Throughput Team
Per Team
$18,000 Includes weekly dashboard to track and optimize patient throughput:  bed holding, admission and DC processes,  care management, demand and scheduling.  Includes procedure, outpatient and outplacement mapping, scheduling patterns and practices, and reengineering. Includes simulations, pilot development and implementation support.
Strategic Planning Team
Per Team
$18,000 Includes financial, market and operational analyses, competition assessment, community needs forecasting, and initiative  development with proforma projections.
Vacancy Brainstorming
Per Team
$18,000 For one clinical service line and all included cost centers. Vacancy Brainstorming includes  dashboard build prior to workshop: metrics for vacant positions, posted positions, duration of vacancy, cost of  vacancy financials. Workshop Includes weekly Dashboard review, education, vacancy brainstorming for coverage and work reengineering; pilot testing, new assignments and crew schedules.  Workshop also includes  outreach and recruiting process mapping and reengineering.   
ESP
Engineered Staffing Pools Mgmt Team

Per Team
$18,000 For one clinical service line and all included cost centers.  Includes review and reengineering of  existing crew by shift, day of week, experience,  skill levels, pay and differentials.  Includes onboarding reengineering, flexible staffing pool development and implementation. Includes workload analysis of  top-of-license, assistive, ancillary and support duties by time of day / day of week. Includes cross-training /  assistive-training procedures, project plan, implementation timelines, tools and management. Includes clinical ladder reengineering of new steps below and above; crew career preferences and options; pay leveling and flexibility incentives. Includes PTO Coverage Forecasting reengineered into staffing practices; New call-out bidding procedures and HS4HS real-time staffing management online tools / app implementation.

Friday, April 14, 2023

 

HS4HS Interim Management Team


When you have missing managers, executives, supervisors and crew how do you raise crew morale and patient satisfaction to their highest levels;  how do you facilitate top-of-license utilization of your professionals and achieve best practice services to providers and patients every shift every day? 

Below is a slide deck demonstrating the issues of management and staffing turnover hospitals are facing and a new solution: the Interim Management Team.

 

When you need more than just Operations Support (see previous article), and want guaranteed results from your consulting partners, the HS4HS Interim Management Team might be just the thing.


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If you would like Dirk and I to present this in a free live webinar to you and your team, where we can answer questions and provide case study examples, just send us a message in the contact form on the right >>>>
















HS4HS Management Operations Support Services

Do you currently have staffing shortages? Are you concerned that staffing shortages are keeping your managers from performing critical management tasks? Let us help restore sanity to your daily operations.


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If you would like Dirk and I to present this to your team, where we can answer questions and provide more examples, just send us a message in the contact form on the right >>>>







Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Is Your Productivity System Unlovable?

 Here below is a slide show demonstrating a loveable, trusted and actionable productivity system. Our team of seasoned professionals develop targets collaboratively with your department heads, and a state of the art platform for monitoring department level productivity.


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If you would like Dirk and I to present this in a free live webinar to you and your team, where we can answer questions and provide more examples, just send us a message in the contact form on the right >>>>















Monday, March 27, 2023

 Span-of-Control ?

Or...

 Span-Out-Of-Control?


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If you would like Dirk and I to present this in a free live webinar to you and your team, where we can answer questions and provide more examples, just send us a message in the contact form on the right >>>>