Clinical Program Planning
Before a hospital can be built, it must be planned.
In health care delivery organizations, the clinical program plan is at the heart of decision-making about every critical aspect of a hospital, from the design of facilities to the required technologies and professional staff.
All too often, planning for a new hospital is concentrated solely on construction of a new building. In many cases, assumptions about number of beds, desired clinical service lines and departments, and staffing are not aligned strategically or are not well-suited to the true needs and opportunities of the marketplace.
Given the high stakes involved in building sophisticated and expensive health care facilities, it pays to establish a strong clinical program plan that can serve as the blueprint for detailed operational planning, construction, and readiness for opening.
Our clinical program planning process taps into HEALTHBY's deep bench strengths across the full continuum of clinical care, with active practitioners who can provide input on best practice, innovations in care, and trends in their respective specialties. The process is part of an overall strategic plan that considers the hospital’s phased development and evolution over the long term, as market needs change and as emerging technologies impact how patient care is delivered.
We help position new hospitals for top financial and operational performance in the following ways:
- Identify niche clinical service lines to fi ll unmet market demand
- Introduce multidisciplinary care approaches in patient care services geared to cross-departmental collaboration
- Build quality principles and processes into the hospital from the beginning
- Focus infrastructure around interdisciplinary team learning and clinical training in inpatient and outpatient settings
- Optimize use of resources, staff , and materials to increase eff ective capacity, improve care delivery, and promote patient satisfaction
- Make wise decisions about capital technology investments and build fl exibility into the facility design
How we can help.
- Lead strategic planning discussions with hospital leadership to review and refine the vision, strategy, and goals for the new hospital
- Review, analyze, and provide feedback on market data analysis and other studies
- Advise on selection and phasing of core clinical programs
- Advise on Centers of Excellence or signature clinical programs to consider developing, as informed by market analysis and targeted to relevant local disease profiles
- For selected clinical programs, calculate anticipated number of beds for each clinical service, as well as number and type of operating rooms
- Link clinical program planning outputs to facilities planning, space programming, equipment planning, IT and systems planning, and creation of a staffing plan