Strategic Restructuring

Setting the Scene

After its acquisition of two smaller hospitals in its metropolitan market, a four-hospital, Midwestern health system recognized the need to assess emerging strategic and operational opportunities at those facilities. The health system retained Compass Clinical Consulting to provide this assessment.

Crafting a Solution

Compass began by structuring and leading an evaluation of alternative service configurations for both facilities and used a structured decision-making model to choose among alternatives. Later on in the process, we provided assistance in planning the implementation of repurposing plans, employee and physician communications, and staff relocations from closed services to other services within the system.

Seeing the Results

The transparent process of evaluating alternative service configurations resulted in the system’s decision to close inpatient behavioral health and obstetrics, focus on building inpatient medical and surgical volume, build an urgent care pathway within an inefficient emergency department, and strengthen physician and community outreach activities. As a result of operating and service changes, service volumes in the remaining services were sufficiently high to improve the financial performance of the hospitals and assure that clinical quality was maintained at the desired level.

Other Success Stories:

• Improving the Case Management Process
• Emergency Department Redesign
• Interim Director of Infection Control
• Interim OR Director
• Case Management Assessment and Interim Leadership
• Recovering from CMS Immediate Jeopardy and Termination
• Improving Productivity and Labor Cost Management
• Interim Pharmacy Director
• Interim Director of Anesthesia
• Regaining CMS Certification
• OR Assessment and Interim Leadership