New Book Provides Strategies for Integrating Ambulatory Care

PHOENIX, Nov. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ From stand-alone small rural hospitals to facilities that are part of a multi-hospital system, challenges exist to maintain market strength as patients migrate towards larger centers for care. Greenbranch Publishing announces a new book, Integrated Ambulatory Care: Key Growth Strategies for Small and Rural Hospitals, by James Hamilton, MBA, FACMPE, to provide health systems the ability to integrate ambulatory care in a manner which is profitable, clinically effective, time-efficient, and reflective of best practices.

Topics include:

• Comprehensive strategies to maintain and grow marketshare in service lines: women's health, musculoskeletal services and chronic disease management, as well as others.
• Employing physicians is costly. We provide the benchmark architecture for success as well as gold standard accreditation achievement.
• Time-tested medical office space design that leads to an economically efficient practice.
• Tools to calculate primary care access based on patient panel size and hours worked.
• Formulas and annual percent of new patients needed (by specialty) to maintain a viable practice.
• Data and methodology to calculate downstream revenue from physician practices.
• Intertwined with lean management principles will be the concepts of population management and telemedicine as it applies to chronic disease management.
• Proven methods in customer service implementation and action plans with metrics for customer knowledge, access, education/promotion and patient experience.
• Strategies for developing a successful primary care medical home.

The frame work for implementation strategies offered in this book can apply to hospital leadership teams from an independent free standing small/rural hospital to similar facility leaders that are owned and operated by a larger system. Both struggle with their own organizational goals, but bottom line success in gaining market share and patient volumes will translate into a highly successful organization which is a common goal for any organization regardless of ownership.

The audience for this book includes senior and middle management leaders for independent as well as integrated systems that own small/rural hospitals. Additionally, employed physician leaders, members of the medical group executive team, board members, medical staff leadership and educators for graduate leadership training.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 External Market Analysis
Chapter 2 Internal Strength Analysis
Chapter 3 Proven Success Model for Employing Physicians
Chapter 4 Office Practice Customer Service Plan
Chapter 5 Moving from Traditional to Integrated Ambulatory Medical Care
Chapter 6 Facility Strategies to Support Integration
Chapter 7 Economic Analysis of Integrated Ambulatory Care
Chapter 8 Success Indicators for Integrated Medical Care

Appendix A Office Practice Customer Service Plan
Appendix B Physician Management Board Charter Outline
Appendix C Operational Decision Support Matrix
Appendix D General Framework for Creating the Medical Home

About the Author: James Hamilton, MBA, FACMPE is CEO of Ambulatory Medical Management, LLC. In 2013, he authored a health futurist book, "A Short Treatise on a Common Sense Framework for Health Care Reform." He has served on the faculty of a number of colleges and universities, instructing at graduate and undergraduate levels in topics such as healthcare economics, ethics, law, strategy, quality, entrepreneurial management, financial markets, and institutions, as well as myriad other business-related topics. His portfolio includes work in strategic planning, facility development, operational improvements, financial turnaround, redesign and fair market value for physician compensation, futurist design of our healthcare system, as well multiple mergers and acquisitions with physicians and hospitals/health systems.

Integrated Ambulatory Care: Key Growth Strategies for Small and Rural Hospitals
By James Hamilton, MBA, FACMPE
CEO of Ambulatory Medical Management, LLC

$69.00 print
$62.00 eBook

Greenbranch Publishing
www.greenbranch.com/ruralor Nancy Collins, (800) 933-3711 or 183223@email4pr.com

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