Healthcare
Improved Operations. Improved Patient Care.
The pressure is growing for care providers, payers and policy makers to improve patient care, increase access and speed of services, and decrease costs. Guidon can help your organization meet these challenges and improve the overall patient experience
Our team of healthcare professionals has years of experience assisting hospitals, clinics and large provider networks streamline their processes and drive rapid, measurable improvements in cost, quality, and service.
Working alongside our clients and their partners to understand patients’ perspective and needs, we’ll develop your organization’s unique Patient Care Delivery Value Stream – an innovative, powerful approach to documenting the current state of care, identifying value and waste, and providing a roadmap for improvement.
Through this systemic, patient-centric “diagnosis” of your current system, you’ll clearly understand the breakdowns, IT and information gaps, potential failure modes, opportunities and priorities for improvement – allowing us to deploy a rapid, sustainable healthcare process improvement solution.
Our Practice
Guidon’s healthcare practice has worked with clinics, hospitals and other organizations to overcome a wide range of challenges including:
- Increasing patient capacity
- Reducing wait times in clinics and emergency rooms
- Decreasing scheduling time for surgeries and procedures
- Reducing appointment cancellations and boosting incremental revenue
If you want to achieve goals like these for your healthcare organization, Guidon can help. See our case studies to learn how we’ve achieved results for clients like you.
Case Studies
See our healthcare six sigma methodology at work for organizations like yours. Select a case study for details:
- Improving Hospital Efficiency Through Capacity Modeling
- Improving Transplant Patient Experience through Kaizen
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Clients
Guidon has worked with healthcare providers ranging from community hospitals to large care provider networks and health-focused organizations including:
- Cleveland Clinic
- Mayo Clinic
- bioMérieux, Inc.
- SSM Healthcare
- University of Iowa Hospitals
- CGH Medical Center
- Mercy Medical Center
- American Red Cross
- Tricare Military Health System
- Madison County Health Trust
- Surgical Care Affiliates
- Oklahoma Blood Institute
Contact us to find out what Guidon can do for you.
News & Publications
- Improving Lab Efficiency: It all boils down to process, process, process
- Hospitals Borrowing Efficiency-Improvement Techniques from Industry
- The Mechanics of Meaningful Use
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Contact Guidon About A Custom Solution
To learn more about how custom solutions from Guidon can help your healthcare organization, contact us through our website or call us toll free at 1.866.986.4414 or 480.986.4414 for international calls.
