There is a perfect storm of challenges forming in healthcare – from
the regulatory and reimbursement changes being driven by the Affordable Care
Act, to the aging of the population, to the consistent increase in costs over
the last few decades. Schaffer Consulting is meeting these challenges by implementing our results-driven approach to making
change happen.
We have spoken with over 60 C-suite leaders in organizations such
as MD Anderson Cancer Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, Providence Health
Systems, and many others. We’ve heard some surprisingly consistent messages: Leaders
in healthcare are finding they need to rapidly help their organizations adapt,
change the way they work, and perform at a new level. The key needs we discovered can help your organization.
The key needs include:
- Ensuring that integrations deliver on their
intended value. There is a real need here as hospitals merge with one another, and
as professional medical practices are absorbed into systems.
Schaffer has extended experience and capability in this area and
can ensure that integrations quickly realize their business and cost objectives.
Read one example.
- Physicians need
to expand their reach as leaders. As more physicians step into leadership
roles, they need to reach across and inspire people from different disciplines
and different departments, they must understand the financials of a health
system, and they need to better understand how organizations work.
Schaffer has helped global organizations such as Siemens revolutionize
their leadership development processes , turning leadership development from a
cost center to a profit center. Learn how we used
the same approach to help Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
- Cost Reduction. The easiest, “low
hanging fruit” costs in health care systems have been addressed for some time
now. Now costs are harder to control, and many of them hide in processes that
span functions and divisions in healthcare systems.
Schaffer’s
WorkOut process can help organizations discover where these costs are hiding
and remove them. Schaffer Consulting helped develop the GE WorkOut process and
has used it to help transform other Fortune 500 companies. Learn how
Schaffer helped a major pediatric hospital save millions of dollars.
- Population Health
Management. Managing the
health of a large number of patients, improving care coordination across all
care settings, raising the quality of care each patient receives, and applying
this approach over a much longer period than a single episode of care is a huge
– and costly – mandate. In many health systems, the sickest1% of patients drive
20%-30% of costs.
Schaffer Consulting’s Rapid-Results Approach is all about finding
high leverage opportunities, and focusing on them to achieve breakthroughs. We
can help create focus on high-cost patients and improve the quality of their
care while helping the healthcare system save money. Read how we
helped the country of Eritrea tackle the daunting spread of HIV/AIDS.
Our interviews confirmed that despite the apparent chaos
surrounding health care today, leaders of health care systems are facing many similar
challenges. By translating big, strategic issues like these into near-term
challenges, getting very specific about needed outcomes, and then achieving them,
healthcare organizations can create a sense of possibility, hope, and positive
momentum for change while delivering critical results.