Consulting
Rural Healthcare Developers' managers provide sound advice
grounded in experience with set-up or development of programs
Rural Healthcare Developers provides medical organizations consultation and management in a variety of subject areas at multiple levels. Experienced in clinical and management strategies, RHD managers work with your staff to make operations more efficient and profitable with emphasis on quality patient care.
Our consulting managers can be inserted into your organization for continued guidance in setting up new programs or assisting in developing efficient operation of existing programs.
RHD provides consulting and management services in these areas:
- Free-standing psychiatric hospitals.
- Hospital within hospital concepts
- Hospital-based geriatric units
- Hospital-based outpatient geri-psych units
- Free-standing partial hospitalization programs
- Free-standing intensive outpatient programs
- Adolescent psychiatric units
Employee assistance programs
The services RHD provides in set-up or development of behavioral health programs include:
- Initial program set-up including recommendations on staffing, training, referral development
- Policy and procedures updated annually per regulations
- Program forms matching policies and procedures and meeting all requirements
- Financial snap-shots to track budget targets and manage the program utilization reimbursement issues
- Mock surveys to establish baselines, pre-survey reviews and ongoing compliance
- Post survey assistance (corrective action)
- Assistance in appeal process
- Recommendations on staffing ratios and utilization of ancillaries
- Regular site visits that include chart reviews to ensure compliance
- Staff competencies and job descriptions