The Hospital Medical Management Program (HMMP)
was designed by Dr. Darren Swenson and Dr. John Cruickshank to improve
the quality of patient care at the IASIS Healthcare acute care hospitals.
Through well-planned coordination and mapping
methodologies, the HMMP allows the hospital system to function at
its highest possible level, facility-wide. The result is a dramatic
decrease in staff-time, paperwork, phone calls, memos and expense
as well as a dramatic improvement in patients’ perception
of the quality of their hospital stay.
Here’s an overview of how the HMMP
positively affects the hospital.
1. Physician Performance Dashboards
Gives physicians the easily accessible, ongoing feedback they
need to evaluate all areas of their performance. They are trained
and then are able to practice medicine in a way that consistently
increases patients’ positive perception of their hospital
experience. [Learn more]
2. Payer Focus Model
Initiates thorough education of the case management team regarding
the numerous payer contracts it handles and provides continuing
education as well as ongoing monitoring within the case management
department. [Learn more]
3. Patient Throughput Program
Controls patient traffic by making sure beds are available for
emergency room and direct admissions. It also ensures that staff
and ancillary services use resources more efficiently. [Learn
more]
4. Hospital Case Management Program
Optimizes case management ratios while stressing that case management
is the backbone of the hospital. This drives patient care and
physician team performance. . [Learn
more]
5. Hospital Core Measure Performance
Program
Allows hospitals to achieve the minimum performance goals for
their physicians and brings the performance of hospital departments
into the top 10 percent in the United States. This metric is a
clear measure of the quality of care provided for patients with
a specific diagnosis such as heart failure, pneumonia or acute
myocardial infarction. [Learn
more]
6. Hospital Admission Protocols
Ensures upon admission that patients receive the highest quality
of care possible by mandating unwavering attention to core measures,
optimizing necessary tests based on admission diagnosis and utilizing
the streamlined hospital formulary to reduce physician practice
variation and optimize patient care outcomes. [Learn
more]
7. Hospital Resource Consumption
Program
Provides the resources to eliminate unnecessary testing, which
has been commonplace in hospitals for years and is often unrelated
to the admission diagnosis. The program unifies the efforts of
multiple hospital departments, improving the patient’s experience
with fewer tests and less risk of adverse outcomes during hospitalization.
[Learn
more]
TCMA believes patient care comes first. That’s
why we developed the Hospital Medical Management Program –
to give a facility the broad range of tools needed to exceed the
expectations of staff, physicians, administrators and, most of
all, patients.
To learn more about the HMMP, contact Dr. Darren
Swenson or Dr. John Cruickshank at (702) 839-0946.
