An Ohio hospital operates two urgent care sites where time spent in an urgent care is critical to patient satisfaction. In September of 2011, Length of stay in both Urgent Care sites was observed to be an average of 99 ...

This project is the beginning of a large scale transformation of care in primary care clinics. In March of 2012 a Value Stream Analysis was conducted and a Target Condition identfied. A pilot clinic was determined along ...

In Ohio, African Americans have the highest incidence rate of developing colorectal cancer and African American males have the highest mortality from colorectal cancer than any other gender/race group. As a result, African ...

In 2011, 8.6% of approximately 446,000 medical group patient visit encounters were not completed in Epic EMR within 2 days, resulting in incomplete records, causing subsequent care for patients to be less safe, delayed or ...

The term "cancer survivor" refers to individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer and also includes the people in their lives who are affected by the diagnosis. These individuals manage numerous physical, psychological, ...

The hospital schedules an average of 102 new patient visits per day. The hospital is not a contracted provider with the payers for approximately 10% of those visits. Failure to identify these visits prior to services being ...

Hospital has lost millions of dollars since 2005 and cannot uphold the mission statement to the community under current conditions. Services will be cut and employees will be laid off if the financial situation is not ...

The Medical Center's heart failure patient's average length of stay in the Congestive Heart Failure Clinic is currently 89.2 minutes, which is 29.2 minutes greater than the appointment times of 60 minutes. Countermeasures ...

The academic Faculty Group Practice (FGP) business office exists to support and manage revenue cycle functions associated with an institution's clinical practice mission. Activities such as producing and transmitting ...

The primary issue is that perioperative delays are resulting in 22.3% worked hours in overtime and decreased patient, staff and physician satisfaction. This department is looking to increase surgical volume and needs to ...