Blog
Letter by Vercillo Regarding Article, “Use, Temporal Trends, and Outcomes of Endovascular Therapy After Interhospital Transfer in the United States”
A recent study published in the American Heart Associations’ journal Circulation identified a concerning trend: When patients diagnosed with a stroke need to be transferred from a community hospital to a specialty center for endovascular treatment (EVT—mechanical...
How To Identify Patient Retention And Leakage ‘Forks In The Road’ And Choose The Right Path
Patient leakage from a health system network is an emerging critical issue facing healthcare leaders. As Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements continue to negatively affect operating margins for even high-performing health systems, competition for privately insured...
Patient Transfers are Evolving: Here’s What the Future Could Hold
Health systems face many competing care quality and financial performance improvement priorities and new risk-based revenue arrangements. Faced with these challenges, it is no wonder that some health systems have not considered how increasing patient transfers from...
Read Gartner Report: Put Patient Throughput and Capacity Management at the Center of Your Performance Improvement Plan
Presentations
Transfer Center 2.0! Expanding the Role of Your Transfer or Access Center
Julieta Ducasa, former Nurse Manager at Baptist Health South Florida’s Transfer Center, discusses the initial and continuing value of transfer centers. The Transfer Center at BHSF has been established for over five years and has been immensely valuable to the...
Perfecting Patient Flow Through Real-Time Demand Capacity Management
Deborah Kaczynski, Senior Administrative Director at UPMC Mercy, presents on “perfecting patient flow through real time demand capacity management” teaches staff how to improve overall patient flow in the hospital through proper predictions and planning. No more...
Hardwiring Flow: Medical Leadership, Patient Flow, Customer Service, and Patient Safety
IHI faculty Dr. Kirk Jensen gives a high-level overview of hospital operations covering specifics of the four pillars of patient flow—medical leadership, patient flow, customer service, and patient safety—and how to “hardwire” efficient process for each. He discusses...
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