A community hospital in the Northeast retained Warbird’s professionals to perform a labor productivity analysis and design and implement a sustainable staffing system that matched labor supply to patient/volume demand. Warbird’s professionals assessed the hospital’s labor cost-management opportunities, aggregated that data into workforce tables and management productivity dashboard monitoring tools, and developed shift management tools and trained front-line managers in the utilization of those analytical tools […]

As part of Warbird’s broader performance improvement services provided to Centegra Health Systems of Northwestern Illinois, Warbird provided IT technical subject matter expertise to improve performance systemwide. The IT aspects of the engagement were focused on physician billing practices, use of its ambulatory software, the group practice EHR and an assessment of the existing software build in anticipation of a pending affiliation with Northwestern Medicine in Chicago […]

From Many Pieces to One Program: Building an Employed Physician Compensation Plan. At one Medical Group, Warbird was engaged to set a new course and ensure a consistent approach to a new employed physician compensation plan. The process began with an assessment of the client’s current state, contrasted it to benchmark data and began to build a comprehensive compensation plan for employed providers (physicians and others) […]

Warbird Consulting Partners working in close coordination with Intermountain Healthcare (HC) Telemedicine team designed a methodology and related financial models to enable Intermountain HC to quantify internal economic benefits generated across the health system and potential financial benefits for the local communities served by Intermountain HC […]