P.A.C.E. (Partners Achieving Clinical Excellence)¹
Building functional multi-disciplinary service line structures / integrated governance / accelerated decision-making
C-V Strategy & Tactics Development:
- Organizational strategic plans
- Feasibility analyses and planning for inpatient and outpatient CV services
- Market entry strategies for hospitals, service lines, vendors
The PACE Initiatives
In response to increased competition for market share, tertiary medical centers across the country are focusing their resources on developing two to three of their high-volume service lines into more-advanced business configurations with specialists supporting more-advanced models of care. Such activities are often associated with significant capital investment and bold initiatives to integrate key clinician stakeholders. At the core of these models is a fundamental commitment to providing state-of-the-art quality care in state-of-the-art facilities.
In order to achieve this level of excellence, these programs are compelled to design and then implement dynamic organizational structures – in a manner that involves the top clinical stakeholders for their specialty services in substantive programmatic decision-making -- in a collaborative fashion, with multi-disciplinary input, at a strategic forum that is inclusive of administration and physician leaders.
Given the objectives to grow market share, reduce costs, maximize staff productivity and to provide the highest quality care, this improved structure accelerates decision-making related to optimal resource deployment, capital investment, equipment acquisition, and shared-risk as it enables the development of expanded services horizontally and vertically throughout a mutually targeted market or region.
The PACE Initiatives are customized processes in the form of work modules that assist specialty stakeholders to design a more collaborative relationship. Each module is tailored to meet specific local needs during a brief assessment period. The attached flowcharts depict the generic modules that a stakeholders would complete on the way to developing sustainable, integrated, programmatic renewal for a clinical service line. Empasis and sequencing of verious activities will, of course, vary depending on local conditions.
The PACE Initiatives focus on both design and implementation. Sometimes these are divided into distinct stages.
The PACE Initiatives act as the launch-pad for continued specialty program competitive transformation through professionally facilitated decision-sessions. The PACE Initiatives become the template for ongoing programmatic work and set the stage for accelerated business development, operational development, network development, and program revitalization and growth. Together these initatives take the parties from current state through integrated re-design to an enhanced competitive position.