Gentiva Consulting's palliative care program solutions help organizations save money while applying best practice standards of care for seriously ill patients.

Gentiva Consulting can help your organization realize the benefits of a palliative care program. In a series on health policy called "Palliative Care – Transforming the Care of Serious Illness," it is reported that effective palliative care programs saved between 19% to 22% in average cost per patient day. To find these savings, strong processes and expert program development are required. Gentiva Consulting has the expertise to help your organization start a palliative care program or improve current palliative care services.

The Impact of a Palliative Care Program

• Financial cost containment of patient care
• Reduce readmissions
• Reduce ER visits
• Improve bed utilization and place of care
• Reduce inpatient lengths of stay
• Reduce ancillary and pharmaceutical costs
• Improve patient and family satisfaction
• Adjust morbidity and mortality statistics

With extensive financial, clinical and operational solutions for palliative care programs, Gentiva Consulting can help you realize financial goals while bringing best practice standards of care for patients and families. Our palliative care program solutions include:

• Feasibility analysis for palliative care program start-up
• Full start-up support for program implementation
• Recommendations for staffing models, productivity standards and management metrics
• Assessment of current palliative care services and outcomes
• Benchmarking and data analysis
• Analysis of key performance indicators
• Compliance and regulatory assessment
  
• Palliative care education
• Coding, billing and auditing assessment
• Clinical documentation development and review
• Financial, operational and clinical outcomes and reporting tools
• Mock survey for accreditation preparation
• Analysis of program risk stratification
• Recommendations for internal and external marketing opportunities
  
• Policy and procedure development and review
• Coaching and mentoring for clinical staff
• Satisfaction survey development and review
• Cost containment and cost avoidance reporting
• Recommendations for post-acute continuum of care and disease-specific programs to support acute-care palliative care programs

Here's what our clients are saying about Gentiva Consulting's
palliative care expertise:

"Gentiva Consulting provided our hospital with an extensive evaluation of our palliative care program. Gentiva Consulting was able to analyze our operation from several perspectives… (a combination of data collection, observation and interviews) to properly assess how our program was operating. Most important, Gentiva Consulting's service allowed our organization to perform a "self check" on our palliative care program and provided us an objective and unbiased assessment of how our program was operating. Based on my experience, I can highly recommend Gentiva Consulting."

- Hospital CFO, Alabama

For more information

Find out more about Gentiva Consulting's palliative care by downloading this PDF.
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