Your Path to a Better Practice Through Design

At Practice Flow Solutions, we understand the unique challenges of outpatient medical practices and surgery centers. We’re here to revolutionize your medical office. That’s what we do. We create efficient, productive environments tailored to your unique practice needs.

The Practice Flow ASSESSMENT

A medical facility is a place for people to get care. All too often things disturb the smooth flow of healthcare to patients. Delays happen due to appointment scheduling that is out of sync with the flow of the staff and doctors, doctors getting pulled off track performing non-doctor tasks, and information not being readily accessible. These are only a few issues that Practice Flow Solutions typically discovers. In today’s environment of increased demand, increasing cost and reimbursement not keeping pace, it is more important than ever to have efficient flow systems to maximize the doctors` time and eliminate the delays in providing care. Our Practice Flow Assessment analyzes your current practice flow to identify obstacles that keep the doctors from caring for patients and gives solutions to correct the flow patterns.

The Practice Flow Assessment is performed in two stages:

Stage I

We provide you a questionnaire that compiles data on current patient volumes, services rendered, staffing model in place, doctors and extenders caring for patients, your current office and future goals and asperations of the practice. Once you receive the questionnaire and have reviewed it, we have a meeting/conference call with you and key staff gathering the data. This is to discuss how the data needs to be gathered, the importance of that data, and to get input from those working in the practice. After we receive the data we have another meeting/conference call to review the data.

Stage II

his is the hands on portion of the assessment where our consultants spend time in your facility. While in the practice we will be having conversations with staff to learn their perspective, meeting with the doctors and management to learn the growth plans and other items that need to be addressed, and observing flow patterns of the patient, staff, and doctors. While observing we perform time and motion studies to determine the magnitude of the flow obstacles and how exactly the patients’, staff, and doctors` time is being consumed. The flow of information, instructions, and equipment is also observed to determine how the handling of these affects patients getting care in a timely manner. The length of time for Stage II is determined by the size of your practice and make up of services being provided. Please contact us at help@PracticeFlowSolutions.com for pricing and length of time for performance.

The Service Deliverables:

A written Practice Flow Assessment identifying obstacles to providing care in your facility and recommendations to address each issue.
A spreadsheet listing all the rooms and the proper size for each. The spreadsheet will give a total for the overall size of your practice.
Evaluation of suite options.
Financial projection on increased revenue due to increased efficiency and overhead changes due to staffing and technology changes.
Verbal presentation of our findings.
Follow up after your review of the Practice Flow Assessment to finalize any of your comments.

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We have made at least $5 for every dollar we spent on Practice Flow Solutions. Working with Practice Flow Solutions saved me from a really bad plan from the general architect. Your pre-design Assessment was very detailed and pointed out all the flow issues with the plan I had. Invaluable...

Edward J. Meier MD
Apex Eye, Cincinnati, Ohio