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Consulting
HCT Consulting provides consulting services that focus on the financial performance, operational efficiency and clinical quality of your hospital so you can positively impact your bottom line while maintaining quality of services. We’re also there to help you proactively manage business development strategies, from addition of service lines to acquisition of other facilities, and to help facilitate transitions in leadership. Our areas of expertise include:
- Transactions (mergers/acquisitions)
- Valuation services
- Compliance and fraud deterrence
- Capital budgeting and planning
- Financial planning and forecasting
- Financial operations and interim management
- Revenue cycle management
- Information technology assessment and strategic planning
Operational Efficiency/Care Quality
- Case Management
- Emergency Department
- Perioperative Services
- Nursing Services
- Ancillary Services
- Clinical Quality
- Supply-chain Cost Management
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Productivity Management
- Patient Access
- Balanced Scorecard
- Customer Service
- Patient satisfaction (HCAHPS)
- Employee satisfaction
- Physician satisfaction
- Transitional managers and executives who help:
- Maintain operational and strategic focus
- Prepare for new leadership
- Interim management for:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Medical Officer
- Vice Presidents
- Directors for various departments (including case management, emergency department, perioperative services, clinical quality)
- Leadership training
- Lean operations
- Problem solving
- Meeting facilitation
- Fundamentals of leadership
- Teamwork
- Patient satisfaction
- Basic service training
- Effective communication
- Hourly rounding
- Service recovery
- Pain management
- Strategic planning (short- and long-term strategic plans)
- Service line analysis and planning
- Physician alignment
- Mergers, affiliations and acquisitions
- Market and competitive analysis
- Certificate of Need development
- Community impact analyses
- Retreat facilitation, planning and education
- Governance and leadership development
