Service Lines

Compass Clinical Consulting Practices

Compass, unlike most consultancies serving hospital leaders, is focused on improving clinical care and leadership excellence. The net result of our work with hospital leaders is to reduce the cost of delivering safe, quality healthcare.

We organize our practices under four categories.

1. Operational Improvement – Practices that improve clinical operations
   • Labor Productivity – Implement non-disruptive resource allocation and cost reduction
   • Case Management – Streamline throughput and coordination of care after hospitalization
   • Cardiology Services – Design an integrated patient-focused care experience that optimizes performance using service line management techniques
   • ED Management – Enhance the operation of the ED to be the hospital’s front door for efficiency and positive patient experience
   • OR Management – Improve the efficiency of the OR while balancing hospital and physician needs
   • Nursing Departments – Improve quality, safety, efficiency and consistency of patient care units
   • Compass Dataworks™ – Utilize analytical reporting system includes detailed clinical and financial data that enables hospitals to analyze practice patterns and make decisions leading to revenue productivity

2. Strategic Improvement – Practices that improve the effectiveness of organizational leadership
   • Executive Leadership – Preparing hospital leaders to manage cultural transformation and team collaboration
   • Organizational Development – Enhance organization-wide capabilities for long-term operational performance
   • Board Development – Enhance the impact of boards on hospital performance
   • Physician Engagement – Manage the natural barriers to effective hospital-physician collaboration and foster physician leadership
   • Fund Development – Help your organization meet your funding needs from non-operating sources

3. Interim Management – Extraordinary interim executives to fill your leadership vacancies
4. Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance – Assurance to meet regulatory quality and safety requirements and avoid cost-debilitating impact of decertification
   • Prevention Services – Identify and fix trouble spots that can threaten accreditation from The Joint Commission (TJC) or compliance with Centers for Medicare (CMS)
   • Preparation Services – Equip quality and clinical staff with the skills and tools needed to manage a successful regulatory survey
   • Response Services – Gain needed insight and assistance to respond to TJC or CMS survey findings
   • Recovery Services – Prevent revenue loss and disruption of care if your hospital must address poor TJC or CMS survey results
   • Immediate Jeopardy – Take immediate action to avoid Medicare termination; we are experts at helping hospitals keep or regain CMS certification
   • Compass Forum – Educate Quality Managers and personnel on the latest TJC and CMS standards with this series of webinars

Call Cary Gutbezahl, MD, about Compass Clinical Consulting at (513) 241-0142.