Hospital Regulatory Consulting

Hospital operational efficiency and emergency room consulting

HOSPITAL REGULATORY CONSULTING

Improve Your Organization’s Regulatory Compliance

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Sullivan Lakier Group offers a comprehensive approach to hospital regulatory and accreditation compliance. Our consultant staff is comprised of RN’s and other healthcare professionals experienced in hospital operations who understand the complexities of regulatory and accreditation compliance standards. We offer consulting expertise that will enable you to meet any regulatory agency requirements including, JCAHO, CMS, EMTALA, etc.

We will work with you to meet your immediate regulatory compliance needs and help you develop and sustain a long-term survey readiness plan.

HOSPITAL REGULATORY CONSULTING SERVICES:

We utilize a four step process in our consulting which is tailored to the level of support you need. These four steps typically are as follows;

Evaluate your hospital’s compliance to regulatory and accreditation standards to identify deficiencies and make recommendations for improvement
Develop an action plan to guide the improvement work for either your team or a combined hospital-consultant team
Provide project leadership or hands-on support for implementation as needed
Provide an operations dashboard and training that allows the organization to monitor progress and ensure the gains are maintained.

The areas of focus for a hospital regulatory consulting assessment typically fall into the following categories:

Deficiencies noted during previous surveys
Medical Records requirements
Clinical and non-clinical department specific assessments
Case Management program
Utilization Management program
Patient flow standards
Medical Staff bylaws
Physician involvement
Environment of Care
Policy and Procedures
Practice standards
Quality improvements and patient safety standards
Competency requirements

BENEFITS OF OUR HOSPITAL REGULATORY CONSULTING SERVICES:

We will work with you to develop and implement strategies and tools that provide:

Regulatory agency compliance and readiness plans
Self-assessment tools for on-going evaluation and preparedness
Improved staff competency compliance and recordkeeping
Enhanced staff knowledge of survey requirements, current compliance, and expectations
Enhanced infrastructure to sustain compliance
Education methods for preparing physicians and staff
Improved physician involvement and knowledge of compliance standards, status, and actions
Methods and tools to monitor and track compliance on an on-going basis.

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