Welcome to the first edition of our five-part series “5 Keys to Optimizing Your Hospital’s Rehab Department Performance.” The goal of this blog series is to detail how Hospital Rehab Solutions can help improve your hospital’s rehab department and why it’s important not to assume the status quo is acceptable with your therapy and rehab department currently.
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It’s important to make sure that your hospital’s rehab department is performing as close to peak optimization as possible. You may think that your rehab department is doing great, but how do you know? What metrics are you using to measure the outcomes and performance?
Hospital Rehab Solutions offers a Comprehensive Rehab Assessment (CRA) to help your hospital’s rehab department identify best practices, areas of opportunity, and areas of risk that may impact patient safety and regulatory compliance. The CRA uses 200 Rehab Standards from The Joint Commission and CMS Conditions of Participation to conduct a thorough review of the Hospital Rehab Department Clinical Operations. A CRA helps establish a baseline of where your rehab department is right now and discover areas that could be improved – areas you may not even know that need attention! It also helps reveal areas of risk to help you mitigate any potential issues down the line.
The areas that a CRA will examine include clinical programs, rehab department staff expertise and clinical skills, department efficiency, and a review of the financial and billing processes. On top of that, a CRA helps identify areas of risk within the department, such as factors affecting patient safety and compliance.
After a CRA is conducted, you may think all the problems have been identified and can be solved. While that may be true in the short term, new areas of opportunity or risk can arise at any time. That’s why it’s vital to set up a CRA schedule for regular follow-up assessments and spot checks to ensure the department continues to run smoothly. The CRA is also used to support the therapy department’s growth in expanding its services to the patients and the community.
It’s extremely important to have an efficient and effective rehab department within your hospital. But how do you know the quality of care and level of compliance in your rehab department if you haven’t had a thorough examination?
Hospital Rehab Solutions is all about optimizing the performance of your hospital’s rehab department. Contact us today to set up a Comprehensive Rehab Assessment to determine where your rehab department can improve!
