Beacon Partners coaches organizations in the development of strategies that are centered on maximizing enterprise-yield performance. To achieve top levels of performance, an organization must factor strategic direction, physician sponsorship, e-Health initiatives, IT adoption, regionalization and more. Our experience reveals that a focus on these critical success factors will strengthen an organization’s position in the market and, ultimately, increase the patient’s experience with the provider.
Organizational Performance Improvement is a methodology centered on coaching an organization through the process of identifying areas in need of improvement. Our process guides organizations through the development of outcomes that are aligned with operationally-based strategic objectives designed to enhance systems, monitor productivity, and realize additional improvements.
- Operational benchmarking
- Staffing level review
- Ambulatory access
- Workflow analysis
- Middle-management training
Enterprise Planning
High-performing organizations generally share one common attribute: effective enterprise planning. We believe that by having business and clinical operations, IT, physician and executive leadership all jointly developing an enterprise plan, organizations will better position themselves to serve their customers.
- Market analysis
- Medical manpower area review
IT Strategy
Our consultants’ extensive experience with complex healthcare IT initiatives affords them genuine understanding of the evolving industry challenges, best practices and critical success factors required to deploy new or improved information technology.
- Strategy
- Governance
- Sustainability
- Vendor evaluation and selection
- Vendor contract negotiation
- Disaster management
- ROI/impact analysis
- Implementation planning
Service Line Planning
We continue to assist organizations in developing effective strategies to assess current and future service lines. The focus of our strategy is to first and foremost recognize the dynamics of physician and hospital relationships.
- Review of clinical programs
- Assessment of physician leaders/champions
- Market analysis of competitors
- Matrix reporting structure review
- P & L impact modeling
- Review of current strategic planning document
- Assessment of annual/tactical operating budget and plan
Hospital and Physician Sponsorship
Physician input into a healthcare organization’s strategic direction is critical to fostering the relationship between physicians and health systems. We have coached organizations in effectively aligning physicians with a health systems strategy. This begins by identifying and developing mutual goals in areas such as IT strategy, business and clinical operations, group practice development, business and clinical operations, recruiting and retention, all of which is critical to fostering the relationships between physicians and health systems.
- Analyze physician services organizational structure and governance
- Study employment models, joint recruiting arrangements, practice subsidies
Interim-Management
Our interim-management services provide relief during times of change and transition within an organization. We also coach organizations and leadership teams through these transitional periods in the areas of business and clinical operations, as well as information technology.
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