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The Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project supported small rural hospitals nationally by providing on-site technical assistance to assist in bridging the gaps between the current health care system and
Learn new ways to ask questions to get the information you want. Identify ways to create comfortable experience for the patient during leader rounds. Learn ways to use the information to effectively coach staff.
Understand the core components and functionality of the chargemaster. Summarize how best practice hospitals use the chargemaster to increase reimbursement, lower denials and improve cash flow. Incorporate a culture of chargemaster accountability and ownership. Comprehend 2020 Final Rule impact on chargemaster codes and availability including 2021 prescribed changes.
Increase understanding of a hospital's revenue cycle from the beginning to the end. Gain practical insight on revenue cycle leading practices such as denials management, revenue integrity, and clinical documentation improvement.
Read about how CDP has improved quality infrastructure, patient satisfaction, internal communication, and physician documentation a year after their SRHT quality improvement project.
Guadalupe County Hospital surpasses their six-month SRHT goals.
By staying focused on implementation of recommendations from their SRHT FOA, MRMC increased net income, net patient revenue and days cash on hand, even during a transition in senior leadership.
Monroe County Hospital completed a Quality of Care and Transition of Care SHRT Project in 2016. Read about their progress on this project.
Madison County Memorial Hospital (MCMH) in Madison, FL is a 25-bed, not-for-profit CAH that completed a financial operational assessment and reported positive outcomes.
UGH identified teen pregnancy and STDs as being a primary concern and created a program to address it. They are now seeing outstanding health outcomes and expanding the program.
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center in Louisiana share ways they utilized their SRHT FOA to drive strategy for the future.
LGH designs an innovative marketing strategy and shares suggestions for other hospitals wanting to create a marketing committee.
Jim Blackwood, Administrator of TGH, discusses ways they used an RHPI FOA to focus on developing leadership abilities, especially regarding handling the “business” end of their departments.
SCH improves care transitions through their RHPI care management and TOC project, and they share their consultant implementation progress and outcomes.
MHUC shares how they used their RHPI ED Operations Assessment Project to super satisfy their patients.
PCH shares their experience with their RHPI Leadership and Balanced Scorecard Development project, which focused on strategies to improve quality and customer service, staff and physician satisfaction, hospital growth and hospital financial health.
This project helped to provide assistance with evaluating clinical processes that impact the revenue cycle, prioritize needs, develop action plans based on the identified needs and implement a plan to improve clinical processes and thus the revenue cycle.