| The outbreak of epidemics coupled with the | | | | to jump into action in no time. |
| exodus of medical professionals skills make | | | | |
| running a hospital a nightmare. The lack of | | | | 5. Reduce Process Times: Long process times |
| funds to purchase essential equipment only | | | | like accident and ICU admission can prove |
| adds to an already bad scenario. Add to this | | | | fatal to patients. Reduction of the amount of |
| administrations with outdated notions about | | | | paperwork necessary saves critical time. |
| hospital management and you have an impending | | | | Dedicated, uncluttered pathways leading to |
| disaster. | | | | operating rooms also saves a lot of time. |
| | | | Trained staff and personnel can handle things |
| In a quest to better run their hospitals, | | | | better than they always used to do. |
| many hospital administrators have deployed | | | | Computerized documents like case histories |
| six sigma process improvements and have | | | | should be able to be accessed over a computer |
| started to show such good results that they | | | | network. This saves time, costs and reduces |
| have converted skeptics to believers. Running | | | | staff fatigue, which can reduce burnout. |
| hospitals better requires a lot more effort | | | | |
| than running a regular business. Here are 7 | | | | 6. Separate Administration And Stores From |
| things that help you to run your hospital | | | | Other Areas: It is crucial that the |
| better: | | | | administration, stores and the front office |
| | | | are far removed from the critical areas where |
| 1. Critical Illness Care: Facilitate | | | | absolute silence is essential for |
| treatment for critical illnesses like cardiac | | | | recuperation of patients. A clean and serene |
| diseases, cancers, brain surgeries etc as | | | | environment will have a curative effect on |
| these specialized treatments are not possible | | | | the patients. Provide a separate entry, |
| just anywhere. A good infrastructure, a team | | | | bypassing the main building, to this area for |
| of specialized doctors and adequate support | | | | the use of patients and their loved ones. |
| staff should be dedicated to these services. | | | | |
| The general increase in the successful | | | | 7. Simplify Billing And Documentation: It |
| treatment of these cases should help promote | | | | removes the necessity to have additional |
| your hospital. | | | | staff to maintain a mountain of paperwork. |
| | | | Keep only those records required by |
| 2. Develop A Network Of Physicians: A | | | | regulations. Paperwork reduction also reduces |
| professional partnership with a network of | | | | the probability of mistakes occurring in |
| independent physicians gets you more | | | | billing and other patient documents. |
| referrals. Physicians refer their patients to | | | | |
| known hospitals when necessary. | | | | North Carolina Baptist used Six Sigma process |
| | | | improvements to revolutionize cardiac care. |
| 3. Good Inventory Of Essentials: Keep every | | | | By getting heart attack patients from the |
| emergency and non emergency essential like | | | | emergency room to the cardiac catheterization |
| oxygen, blood of all groups, medicines and | | | | lab faster, they slashed 41 minutes off the |
| syringes available at all times. Not having | | | | hospital's mean time, and as a result saved |
| to run around looking for essentials not only | | | | lives. |
| saves crucial time but also impresses | | | | |
| patients and their relatives. | | | | The foundation for all these activities must |
| | | | be a rational thinking and questioning of |
| 4. 24/7 Service Popularizes Your Hospital: | | | | every process and system as to their |
| You never know when you need emergency | | | | necessity, in addition to providing the best |
| medical attention. A hospital, open 24 hrs | | | | treatment to patients. As a hospital, if you |
| and 7 days with all facilities available can | | | | aren't running lean and mean, everything else |
| save lives as well as gain goodwill. In-house | | | | will fail miserably. |
| surgeons and on-call surgeons should be able | | | | |