Optimizing your health care transfer center is a crucial step in enhancing patient flow, reducing wait times, and improving overall care coordination. As health care executives, ensuring your transfer center runs smoothly directly impacts your operational efficiency and patient outcomes. Here are five tips to help you streamline and optimize transfer center operations.
Health care executives are all too familiar with the ongoing challenge of staffing shortages and the pressure to improve operational efficiency. It’s critical to ensure that nurses are working at the highest level of their expertise. However, many nurses find themselves weighed down by administrative tasks like managing patient transfers, which detracts from their core role of providing direct patient care.
Approximately 5.5 million emergency department (ED) patients and inpatients are transferred between hospitals each year. An efficient, reliable patient transfer process is a critical aspect of optimal care delivery and operations.
Unfortunately, a perfect storm of converging issues is creating an unacceptable patient transfer scenario in U.S.
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A Leader in Patient Transfers
Since joining Conduit in May 2021,
Conduit Predicts Continuation of Labor Shortages in 2025.
As the health care industry braces for another year of challenges and innovation, workforce shortages remain a critical concern. According to Cheryl Dalton-Norman, president of Conduit Health Partners, the solution lies in leveraging technology and rethinking workflows.
In an article with Healthcare IT Today,
As we set our sights on 2025, let’s take a moment to look back at the major stories that shaped health care in 2024. With AI making waves across the industry, we thought it only fitting to turn to the very technology that’s been making headlines for insight into the health care topics that topped the year.
With nurse burnout on the rise, health care organizations need fresh strategies to support and retain these essential workers.
Dusti Browning, VP of Growth and Client Solutions at Conduit Health Partners, details in an article with Employee Benefit News the promising approach of adopting a hybrid workforce model that allows nurses to split their duties between virtual and bedside care.
In urgent medical situations like stroke, fast and efficient patient transfers can be the difference between life and lasting disability. Conduit Health Partners, through its transfer center services, plays a crucial role in expediting these critical moves.
Such was the case at Mercy Health – Kings Mills Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio when a patient arrived presenting stroke symptoms.
A patient transfer center can play a pivotal role in optimizing patient flow and enhancing outcomes across your health system. However, implementing such a system requires careful planning, strategic execution, and an emphasis on change management. This article outlines the top strategies healthcare leaders can employ to successfully integrate a patient transfer center,
Network leakage is a significant challenge for health care systems, impacting both patient care continuity and financial stability. When patients seek care outside their designated network, it disrupts service delivery and results in substantial revenue loss. Addressing this issue is critical for health systems to deliver high-quality care and ensure the financial health of the organization.
