Welcome to the third 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 services and rehab department currently.
If you missed our first entry in the series, you can read it all here! And if you want to read the second blog entry, find that here!
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To recap the previous blog post:
Once you have the scores at the conclusion of the Comprehensive Rehab Assessment (CRA), it’s important to communicate them with your key hospital stakeholders. This is an important meeting, the goal of which is to come to an agreement with the Rehab Department’s priorities, to align your efforts and resources with your hospital’s vision and goals. HRS will work with you to achieve the best possible outcomes in all areas for your rehab department through this process.
The Importance of Establishing Goals and Timeframes for Your Hospital’s Rehab Department
After discussing the CRA scores with your key hospital stakeholders and established what “success” looks like for you and your rehab department, it’s time to set up the plan of attack.
Setting up realistic targets, tasks, and timeframes for your hospitals’ rehab department is vital to achieving your definition of success. The CRA scores help establish a standard baseline to work from, and realistic expectations for improvement can be created using those metrics.
When devising these targets, it’s important to ensure they are in alignment with the Four Pillars of Success, a tenant of HRS. As a reminder, the Four Pillars are:
- Successful Patient Outcomes
- Rehab Staff Expertise
- Financial Success
- Client Satisfaction
As the Rehabilitation Department works to achieve the goals and standards, we will be able to load all baseline data, targets, timelines, tasks, and goals into our software platform Insight to manage and ensure a seamless process.
By marking down your goals and timeframes, it also provides accountability for everyone involved in the process. It’s much easier to remember why you’re doing what you’re doing when you have reminders of the end result you’re wanting to achieve.
We will go over how to monitor that progress and the importance of updating your goals and targets in our next edition, so be sure to check back!
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!
