Technical Assistance

We examine financial performance, operational workflows and staffing levels to offer an overall assessment of your physician practice, highlighting opportunities to enhance and improve both financial and operational performances.

By researching external data, we conduct an analysis that encompasses hospital volumes by ZIP code, historical volumes (inpatient, outpatient, ancillary), out-migration, and engagement in population health programs. The findings are compiled into a comprehensive written report and is presented virtually.

Unlock your organization’s full potential with a detailed review of most departments, focusing on hours and statistics to identify areas where productivity can be enhanced and how much of those opportunities equate to savings.

Utilizing a recently filed Medicare cost report and supporting documentation, this evaluation delivers findings and recommendations on accuracy, compliance and identified opportunities. In addition, the report provides analysis on utilization and comparisons with peer hospitals.

This assessment provides a report that summarizes the scope of work and identifies key findings and recommendations. Where feasible, it estimates potential financial opportunities, suggests metrics for implementation, and includes a denial analysis and staffing evaluation.

We use a developed methodology to translate current and future financial performance into a long-range financial plan to understand the path to sustainability. This process is not intended to be a detailed budget level process, but rather, a focus on the material performance drivers that will impact your entity’s long‐term financial outlook. In support of this goal, the models allow you to interactively model long range financial planning scenarios, including the development of key hypothetical assumptions.

Utilizing the last 12 months of 835 and 837 electronic remits, we crunch data through a proprietary analysis tool. This analysis will help your hospital understand the source of denials as well as the financial opportunity to focus limited time and resources.

We perform a targeted market assessment to identify immediate opportunities and to assist hospital leadership in evaluating performance over time. The market assessment evaluates the following for the hospital’s defined service area:

• Demographics
• Key competitors
• Market demand trends
• Hospital internal volume trends by key service lines
• Market inpatient and outpatient (if available) utilization market share
• Outmigration trends based on THA and Medicare Part A claims data.

Based on this assessment, we outline potential opportunities for improvement and reducing outmigration (e.g., improving access to local primary care services, identifying specific service line opportunities, engaging physicians, or leveraging outreach opportunities through partnerships with specialists).

This self-paced, on-demand course is designed for anyone overseeing, coordinating or participating in a swing bed program, or anyone wanting to increase their knowledge about swing bed. The course focuses on elements of a successful swing bed program through six modules: swing bed history and regulatory requirements, swing bed criteria and pre-admission, admission process, multi-disciplinary plan of care, continuing care, and discharge.

This self-paced on-demand course is designed for anyone overseeing, coordinating or participating in a swing bed program, or anyone wanting to increase their knowledge about swing bed. The course is comprised of six modules: navigating appendix PP, culturally competent trauma informed care, swing bed performance measures and reducing readmissions, swing bed policies and procedures, engaging the team, and strategies for growth.

With a strong focus on improved outcomes through transparency standards, care and services standards, and safety and security, this course delivers evidence-based validation that your practice goes beyond the requirements and is elevating patient care.

Experience tailored solutions and transformative results with our program development consulting services for rural hospitals and providers. Our team understands the unique challenges faced by rural health care facilities and we work hand-in-hand with hospital administrators, clinicians and staff to identify opportunities for program expansion, enhancement and sustainability. We provide a range of consultation services including administrative, program management and partnership communication consulting.

Unlock the full potential of your health care delivery with physician consulting services. By leveraging our expertise, you’ll receive tailored recommendations and actionable insights to enhance the delivery of specialized medical services and maximize the success and profitability of your service lines.

The Texas A&M School of Nursing is supporting growth of the rural nursing workforce by awarding scholarships for registered nurses working in rural areas to obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing or an advanced nursing degree or certificate. These programs of study position rural nurses to better serve their communities with expertise in needed areas like primary care, behavioral health and more.

Courses, training and coaching opportunities for first-time, mid-level and experienced rural health managers. Opportunities for team coaching are also available.

The NRHA Rural Certification Programs were developed to help current rural hospital leaders strengthen their leadership skills to lead their hospital to success. Course curriculum and program length vary by program.

This e-learning experience ensures you learn the core concepts of Just Culture, equipping you with the tools to elevate organizational accountability, safety and overall performance.

The Wound Care Nurse Certification course is formulated to meet the basic educational needs of the licensed nurses working in different clinical settings. This course provides a comprehensive review of the role of a licensed nurse in the Wound Care Specialty and skills competency sessions needed to function as a Wound Care Certified Nurse.

Live and on-demand learning sessions provide the opportunity to learn best practice methodologies, tools and techniques to demonstrate expertise in the entire recruitment continuum from sourcing through onboarding and retention.

Achieve genuine and lasting organizational transformation that increases patient experience scores by engaging employees through coaching, training and consulting that transforms your organization into five-star health care provider.

Enhance your skills, attain specialized certifications and maintain continuing education compliance with these self-paced, on-demand certification courses designed exclusively for health care professionals. Certification courses include Advanced Care Planning, Annual Wellness Visit, Lean Practitioner, Care Coordination Fundamentals, Transitional Care Management, Leadership Development, and Behavioral Health Integration.