Process Improvements

There is a constant drive to improve quality outcomes, while at the same time reducing costs to meet the ever-shrinking payments received for services rendered. Healthcare leaders today are required to balance the demand to improve quality and reduce costs, while simultaneously meeting the new government regulations.

Beacon Partners understands that many healthcare providers may not have the resources required to lead these change efforts. Our executive and strategic consultants have experienced similar difficulties and developed methodologies in rapid process design or redesign using Lean/Six Sigma and other practices, along with many years of practical experience.

Count on Beacon Partners to deliver:

• A reduction of costs in a manner that improves patient outcomes
• An improvement of client satisfaction (patient, physician and employee)

With Beacon Partners, you will gain improved staff efficiency with a decreased error rate. You will also gain a new focus to help you reduce non-value-added steps and process bottlenecks. The results of all this include increased patient, physician and staff satisfaction, as well as an improved bottom line.
 

Clinical Workflow

Understanding the effects of workflow and subsequent redesign of inefficient processes is critical to successful adoption of IT solutions in concert with clinical staff operations. However, it is important to take a few steps back, as even without the IT component, identifying inefficiencies is paramount to positive patient outcomes, time management and patient safety programs. Incorporating our workflow methodology, Beacon Partners’ experienced consultants work with you to analyze your existing clinical processes.  

The resulting redesign optimizes clinical processes to improve your quality of care and boost cost performance.

Count on Beacon Partners to deliver:

• An assessment and mapping of critical workflows 
• Redesigns to help avoid inefficient and redundant processes
• The ability to leverage the use of IT applications to optimize workflows

With our help, you will gain a clear understanding of the interoperability of core processes. As a result, we will help you attain new levels of efficiency in your IT system and staff processes.