• Optimizing inpatient care programs: Whether your organization is looking to develop a hospitalist program, or already has one in place, HCS can help you optimize your inpatient care delivery system. Through our expertise in workload measurement, staffing needs assessment and operational design, we can provide you with recommendations on creating a progressive program to meet the needs of your medical, surgical and rehab patients. HCS has also worked with groups of primary care providers to develop “partial” hospitalist and in-hospital care programs.

• Optimizing care transitions: HCS consultants have significant expertise in creating care pathways and optimizing care transitions between inpatient physicians and primary care practitioners.

• Quality improvement and patient safety: HCS has created a number of programs to enhance quality and safety in hospitals. These include structured educational courses, development of hospitalist program scorecards, design and mentorship of quality improvement projects, and continuing medical education products.

Why choose HCS?

Our personalized and one-on-one approach ensures that our clients receive solutions and products that are designed to meet their unique needs, allowing them to overcome their particular challenges.

• Increase physician recruitment, satisfaction and retention
• Broaden the range of services that you provide to your community by maintaining a comprehensive and well functioning care delivery program
• Improve your existing hospitalist program by identifying challenges and implementing solutions in all areas of care delivery (patient load, revenues, quality measures to name a few)
• Enhance patient and healthcare provider satisfaction
• Improve your administrative measures (ALOS, cost per case, readmission rates etc.) by developing an efficient and sustainable hospitalist program
• Provide an enhanced range of inpatient care to your community