The Future of Healthcare
Sustainability
Transformational Change is becoming the new-buzz-phrase in Healthcare.
Change will always occur and it is reshaping the way we view certain tasks; how
and what it entails however be an illusive entity to capture without
outside professional intervention. Now that the government has stepped in, true
healthcare change is difficult. Whenever government policies intervene to
force change, confusion is sure to follow. If any good can come out of
their current intervention, it has forced many intuitions to take a hard look at
daily operational functions; shifting "business-as-usual" to "emergency-survival-mode."
During
2012 and 2013 we have seen one of the highest volumes in healthcare mergers and
acquisitions, all based on the uncertainly of ObamaCare; more than $143.3
billion and still climbing in consolidation. This feverish rate will continue
as the Affordable Care Act continues to unfold. Cost containment, facilities placing
on hold new bed construction, a rethinking of available services, the development
of smaller outpatient clinics with limited local services, revisions in GPO
relationships, and drastic reduction staff all became the norm. In addition, the
affects of reduced Medicare and Medicaid has placed added strains on payment-for-service
to the point of affecting survival-ability of several hospitals. After much
study, facilities finally realized there has always been an inherited-built-in-design-flail
when dealing with most manufacturing suppliers whose only desire was to guarantee
future sales revenue for expanding equipment functions into new areas.
Organizations such as the Veterans Administration have now exclusively gone to
unbiased consultants for assistance, thus not associating with the
manufacturing suppliers except to purchase goods that have been designed
specifically to meet needs.
There
is one service venue that has surfaced as healthcare looks towards future
sustainability; the need to better control their Materials Management, Materials
Handling, and Supply Chain Management. Through selective investigation
it was discovered the back-of-house-nightmare needs resolution to bring the greatest ROI. Typically 30 to 40 percent of operational costs are wasted
annually due to poor inventory management. Typically this concern is not fully
discussed and becomes an oversight of tasks during the initial SMP phase and
let to chance.
RemTecH
Associates LLC can offer an impartial
approach to assist with your critical design-development decisions - early on in
project development if given the opportunity. By the time contracts are let to architectural
firms and for construction services, non-proven-concepts are already cut-in-stone
making them impossible to change. We want to be your professional-partner who assists
in steering your staff towards sustainable solutions.
John C Maxwell offers:
John C Maxwell offers:
"People don't care how much you know,
until they know how much you care."
As your partner, it
is all about your success ... not ours!
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