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How to Make Productivity Gains Possible and Profitable
By Compass Clinical Consulting’s Shawna O’Neill, RN, and Cary Gutbezahl, M.D., President
One area in hospital operations that has gone largely untouched is reducing the cost of delivering safe, quality health care. This is where new thinking about workforce productivity, case management, and lean processes and policies can reduce the cost of running a hospital. Hospital leaders can transform their organizations into leaner, faster and better organizations—with sustainable improvements.
Hospital leaders often fear efforts to improve productivity will alienate staff or lessen quality. Including all stakeholders, redesigning processes and working toward national benchmarks will ensure that productivity improvements stick.
READ: “How to Make Productivity Gains Possible and Profitable” via Hospitals & Health Networks Magazine.
FOX BUSINESS NEWS INTERVIEWS COMPASS CLINICAL CEO KATE FENNER ON THE IMPACT OF HEALTHCARE REFORM ON HOSPITALS
Is Reform Good News for Hospitals?
Fox Business News anchor Dagen McDowell interviews Compass Clinical Consulting CEO Kate Fenner on the impact of the healthcare reform law on the nation’s hospitals.
The Benefits of Conflict
An Organization That Encourages Constructive Conflict is Better at Solving Problems and Improving Systems
Cary Gutbezahl, MD, president of Compass Clinical Consulting, recently wrote an article published in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine on turning conflict into a positive force to create better American hospitals.
Here’s an excerpt:
Managing Hospital Conflict: Avoidance of conflict is neither healthy nor productive when the conflict is over sincere differences of opinion about solving problems. Instead, allowing team members to disagree often leads to the best solutions and the most productive work systems.
READ THE FULL STORY via Hospitals & Health Networks magazine on turning conflict into a positive force to create better American hospitals.
How Hospital Leaders Can Take the Fear Out of Hospital Productivity
Creating an Efficient Hospital Through Workforce Engagement
CINCINNATI — February 15, 2010 – Compass Clinical Consulting (http://www.compass-clinical.com) released a new white paper today, “Hospital Productivity Without Fear” (http://www.compass-clinical.com/workforce-management) that identifies key steps to improve hospital productivity and healthcare delivery. Based upon interviews with senior executives at hospitals across the country in the not-for profit hospital sector, “Hospital Productivity Without Fear” also outlines some of the reservations expressed by hospital leaders who have been reluctant to tackle productivity projects and how to overcome these fears.
SHAPE THE FUTURE
“Hospital Productivity Without Fear” reveals new thinking about workforce productivity, case management, lean processes and policies. These new perspectives can help hospital leaders make dramatic dents in the cost of delivering safe, quality healthcare in a hospital setting.
FIGHT THE FEAR
Compass Clinical Consulting identified seven key reasons hospitals fail to pursue clinical productivity projects—and how to fix them.
WITH PRODUCTIVITY DESIGN
“Hospital Productivity Without Fear,” describes six guiding “productivity design” principles that ensure every step within every clinical process adds value to the patient experience and improves both patient outcomes and the financial stability of the hospital.
CHANGE THE FUTURE
To learn more about how hospitals can implement productivity initiatives without the fear— including the six guiding principles all productivity projects must follow—read Hospital Productivity Without Fear [http://www.compass-clinical.com/workforce-management/].
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About Compass Clinical Consulting
Compass Clinical Consulting (Compass) is a healthcare consultancy founded in 1979 and based in Cincinnati, OH. Compass consultants have helped hundreds of hospitals and health systems prepare for accreditation, optimize labor cost management, manage clinical resources, and improve patient throughput and physician relations. Compass also places interim healthcare executives. Visit http://www.compass-clinical.com.
Contact information:
Steve Kayser
Media Relations
Tel.: 513.241.0142, Ext. 112
Mobile: 513.487.1951
skayser@compassgroupinc.com
Five Ways The Hospital Board Can Help Ensure Patient Safety
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require hospitals to have a governing body (the board) that is legally responsible for the conduct of the hospital as an institution. The board of a hospital must hire the CEO, establish a competent medical staff, and oversee key aspects of the organization, such as the strategic plan and budget. However, it’s the governing body’s role in oversight of quality care that is most commonly cited during a complaint survey.
Here are five ways the hospital board can help ensure patient safety ( via Better Hospitals) … READ THE FULL STORY (http://www.better-hospitals.com/2009/11/helping-your-board-ensure-patient-safety/ )
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Compass Clinical Consulting President Cary Gutbezahl Featured in CEO Refresher Magazine
HEALTH CARE REFORM AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Compass Clinical 
Consulting President Cary Gutbezahl article “Health Care Reform and the Elephant in the Room:Personal Responsibility,” (http://www.refresher.com/acrgpersonal.html) is featured in this month’s edition of CEO Refresher Magazine.
The CEO Refresher has been an on-line source of executive intelligence and insight for over ten years. It features articles, news releases, conferences, book reviews, and links of interest to CEOs, business leaders and students. The focus is – creative leadership, competitive strategy, leading change, and performance improvement.
The CEO Refresher viewers are business leaders, executives, managers and students. The subscribers and viewers are highly educated senior executives, professionals and managers keenly interested in creative leadership, strategy, leading change, performance improvement and personal effectiveness.
Hospitals Struggle with How to Safely Dispose of Medication Patches
Hospitals across the country continue to struggle with the issue of how to dispose of medication patches in a manner that is both safe for patients and families and convenient for caregivers. Yet, regulatory agencies have few regulations applicable to hospitals regarding the disposal of medication patches.
Advocacy campaigns, including SMARxT Disposal* have attempted to enlighten caregivers and the public about the potential impact that discarded drugs can have on the environment. The White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy has also issued general guidelines on the disposal of prescription drugs for consumers and professionals. Yet, regulatory agencies have few regulations applicable to hospitals regarding the disposal of medication patches.
READ THE FULL STORY “To Flush Or Not To Flush: Drug Patch Disposal” courtesy of Ruth Elzer, RN, MS, via the HOSPITAL ACCREDITATION BLOG.
