H*Works Offerings
ED Performance
Maximizing ED capacity, patient satisfaction, and revenue capture through installation of best practices to reduce wait times, improve cash collection, and expedite admissions.More about: ED Performance
Workforce Management
We recognize that hospitals can fall anywhere across the spectrum of workforce management issues—what works for one institution with low vacancy rates and high premium labor use will not work for an institution with high vacancy rates and low turnover. Accordingly, we offer a targeted approach to gaining control of labor costs and creating the workforce to support the future.More about: Workforce Management
Revenue Management
Hospitals continue to have great opportunities to improve their execution across the revenue cycle. With deep experience in the complexities of today's revenue cycle, H*Works staff help partner hospitals install best practices across the terrain–reducing accounts receivable days and bad debt, minimizing clinical and administrative denials, and improving collection rates.More about: Revenue Management
Technology Strategy
Defending and growing imaging volumes by setting a strategic plan in action, navigating capital investment decisions, and improving service to referring physicians.More about: Technology Strategy
Inpatient and Surgical Management
Having partnered with more than 300 hospitals and health systems on clinical operations engagements, H*Works offers a proven process and proven solutions that generate significant improvements in patient throughput. We suggest and implement solutions that reduce late starts, improve turnaround, eliminate rework, and streamline core processes across the enterprise.More about: Inpatient and Surgical Management
Nurse Staffing
Improving nursing productivity by removing waste and inefficiency in patient care work through streamlined nursing activities, optimal task allocation, and improved staffing management.More about: Nurse Staffing
Margin Enhancement
Through a dedicated research program serving more than 500 hospital CFOs and their finance departments, the Advisory Board has surfaced hundreds of best practices to manage operating margins through improvements in labor productivity, premium labor cost reduction, clinical resource utilization, supply costs, and purchased services.More about: Margin Enhancement
Service Line Growth
Hospitals increasingly find that they are losing market share of profitable service lines due to inadequate intelligence on growth opportunities, misaligned hospital-physician growth agendas, insufficient specialist capacity to fuel growth, technology advances driving procedures outside the hospital, and a deficiency in operational execution to realize the strategic plan. To avoid profitless growth, H*Works recommends tactical solutions for hospitals to grow profitable service lines and target emerging lines of business.More about: Service Line Growth