Arizona Inpatient Utilization: A Study of Demand Variation by Service Line, Age Group, and Geography
Planning for inpatient care requires a keen understanding of inpatient utilization by service line. This study was undertaken to determine the overall inpatient utilization rates in the state of Arizona, further stratified by service line and age group. We also analyzed utilization differences in the key geographies of Pima County, Maricopa County, and the Rest […]
Graduate Medical Education: A Primer on Trends, Funding, and Programs
Graduate Medical Education (GME) is a vital component of our healthcare system at both the national and local levels. At the national level, it is the key link between medical school, licensure, and board certification, ensuring an adequate supply of well-trained physicians to meet our country’s healthcare needs. On a more local level, GME programs […]
Emergency Department – From the Frontline to ED Design
Pandemic Considerations As an ED nurse for over 25 years, Innova Senior Consultant Janet Woods has worked in several Emergency Departments (EDs) each with a unique departmental design and often undergoing an expansion or renovation to accommodate an increase in patient volume or to improve patient processes and staff workflow. Now, as a clinical consultant […]
Why Re-examine Your Facility Investment Strategies Now?
Drawing on lessons learned from previous turbulent events, Innova’s Paul Breslin provided the rationale for why in this guest commentary for the June 2020 issue of HFMA’s Financial Sustainability Report. HFM_0620_FSR_Breslin_Innova_Article
Uber for Home Care?
An ACA Program Taps New Labor and Permanent Matching Funds The Accountable Care Act (ACA) provides states a powerful yet little-utilized solution for stemming labor shortages in home care for the nation’s elderly and disabled. Like Uber, which accessed a new labor supply for transportation, ”Community First Choice” (CFC) opens up a new labor pool […]
Helping to Develop Tomorrow’s Public Health Leaders
You learn; you do; you teach…then you learn again. On April 22nd, Innova’s Paul Breslin served as a guest instructor for the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree program. Paul, a former adjunct faculty member at BUSPH, has participated as a guest instructor for the DrPH program for […]
The Day My Home Office Became an Exam Room
In these extraordinary times, many people across the world are now doing what I’ve been happily doing for more than 10 years — working from home! It is so trendy it even has an acronym: WFH. Catchy. My husband Eugene, on the other hand, is an interventional cardiologist. Besides answering phone calls from hospital staff […]
DON’T PANIC. PREPARE.
Planning for Pandemics: Methods and Models Among Masks, Madness, and Myths The Innova Group has successfully helped large, integrated health systems and individual hospitals with pandemic planning and would like to make our insights and methodology publicly available to any organization that may find it beneficial to their planning and preparation. With the exponentiating case […]
Free Standing Emergency Departments
Hospitals and health care systems with ambulatory clinics can meet a breadth of medical care needs ranging from treating an earache to managing a trauma from a major accident. Hospital emergency departments are staffed with qualified emergency physicians and advanced practitioners to address highly acute to critical issues 24/7, urgent care facilities and retail clinics […]
How Millennials Will Impact Future Healthcare Planning
Healthcare leaders want to be confident that a major capital investment will support their service delivery needs many years into the future. A directionally correct demand forecast, at the service line level, is a key component for the development of a rational capital investment strategy. It is valuable to first understand the future total market […]
