Hospital Medicine Solutions
Hospital Medicine Solutions (HMS) LLC, is a management and consulting company that provides expert evaluation, delivery of strategic improvements and management of Hospital Medicine services to acute and post-acute health care facilities.
HMS founders have over 50+ years of Hospital Medicine experience with managing programs in their many phases from start up to growth. The HMS model success factors include change management, growing service lines and process improvement. The model also recognizes that provider retention is important and at HMS we strive for provider satisfaction and healthy work-life balance.
In the rapidly changing healthcare environment, HMS is aware of the needs of Hospital administration and how an organization needs to move. Hospital medicine programs are pivotal for systems improvement, patient safety and quality care. HMS provides leadership and change management to an organization looking to develop the hospital medicine program that becomes aligned to modern healthcare delivery. Additionally, HMS has expertise on newer value-based care models such as total cost of care and bundled payments and are able to help programs navigate these models.
Experience
HMS has expertise in managing Hospital medicine programs that serve any size hospital and post-acute care facilities. small to large size hospitals. Our current engagements include managing critical access hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals and large size hospitals. HMS understands the needs of different types of health care settings, such as small hospitals where there is a paucity of specialists, limited intensive care services and variable volumes to larger hospitals where there has been staffing retention issues. HMS has been successful in hiring seasoned hospitalists that can deliver high value care and recognize the needs of such Hospitals. HMS has been able to manage more patients at the smaller hospitals, reducing transfer rates by half and help with nursing education and retention. In larger hospitals, HMS has been successful at stabilizing the program and aligning the growth of the program to the needs of the Hospital leadership. The HMS model of care has shown improvement in patient satisfaction scores, improved service line delivery to help internal stakeholders, and positive impact on hospital revenues through better compliance with coding and documentation and reduction in patient transfers.
HMS has contracts with post-acute care settings that include long term acute hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. The post-acute care space is going through significant disruption and the HMS model has been able to help these facilities be competitive in their markets, by improving quality of care, reducing readmissions and managing sicker patients.
Stella Partners
Hospital Medicine Solutions is excited to announce the development of its staffing company Stella Partners, to help streamline business operations and start to offer more career choices for hospital medicine physicians and APPs. Stella Partners will allow HMS team members the ability to work across health care settings from acute to post-acute and telemedicine opportunities. If you are interested in joining the team please contact us at [email protected]