Hospital Management Case Studies
Our acute care services provide the leadership and management that hospitals need in today’s changing health care environment. Read case studies about USACS partners to see real-life examples of the results that our integrated acute care solutions deliver.
Sepsis Bundle Compliance: Integrated Acute Care
Develop New Partnerships, Integrate Patient Care
The Challenge Released in October 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) sepsis bundle management is a test of a hospital’s ability to navigate the future of healthcare.
- Somerset Hospital
- ED Volume: 18,000
ED Achieves Decrease to LOS, DC LOS, and Admit LOS
Improve ED Metrics
The Challenge Exeter Hospital, along the seacoast in Southern New Hampshire, had a long-standing relationship with a small, private EM group.
- Exeter Hospital
- ED Volume: 30,000
Coordinated EM Care Leads to Better Patient Care
Improve Patient Satisfaction, Develop New Partnerships
The Challenge Allegheny Health Network is the newly created health system formed after the purchase of the West Penn Allegheny Health System by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the dominant health payor in Western Pennsylvania.
Improved Wait Times Lead to Patient Satisfaction
Improve ED Metrics, Improve Patient Satisfaction, Develop New Partnerships
The Challenge The healthcare facilities comprising Mercy Health Cincinnati initially were staffed by a private group and employed physicians.
Innovation and Efficiency for a Pediatric ED
Improve ED Metrics, Improve Patient Satisfaction
The Challenge Valley Children' s Hospital Emergency Department is housed in a tertiary care pediatric hospital which contains over 356 in-patient beds and serves 118,000 patients per year with a service area stretching from Sacramento to Bakersfield, California.
- Valley Children's Hospital
- ED Volume: 119,000
Fostering Growth Across Varied Hospital Settings
Improve ED Metrics, Improve Patient Satisfaction
The Challenge Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) is a large healthcare entity located in North and South Carolina.
ED Grows Volume and Improve Press Ganey Score
Improve ED Metrics
The Challenge The Lawrence Memorial Hospital initially partnered with USACS in 2007 to operate their main hospital ED, which at the time, was seeing 40,000 visits per year with Press-Ganey scores in the 15th percentile.
- Lawrence & Memorial Hospital
- ED Volume: 86,000
Increased ED Efficiency for a Newly Built Hospital
Improve ED Metrics, Improve Patient Satisfaction, Develop New Partnerships, Demonstrate Physician Leadership
The Challenge Springfield Regional Medical Center is a large community hospital serving a huge catchment area in western Ohio, approximately one hour from Columbus and 30 minutes from Dayton.
- Springfield Regional Medical Center
- ED Volume: 76,000
Achieving Minimal Blowback and Maximum Buy-in
Develop New Partnerships
Emergency physicians often have deep and emotional ties to the communities they serve.
Reducing ER Overcrowding Without Adding Beds
Improve ED Metrics
Problem: your emergency room is overcrowded.
Building Better Clinicians
Improve ED Metrics
As part of its commitment to deliver safe, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare to its patients, USACS has put in place an innovative process of quality review.
The Most Efficient Gatekeeper
Improve ED Metrics
Nowhere does quality equal time like in the emergency room.
- Germantown Emergency Center
- ED Volume: 37,000
The Meritus Medical Center Turnaround
Improve ED Metrics, Develop New Partnerships
The Turnaround In October 2008 the Emergency Department at Meritus Medical Center, a 286-bed acute care facility located in Hagerstown, MD, was no longer meeting the hospital standards.
- Meritus Medical Center
- ED Volume: 78,000
Reducing the Flow of Blood... and Money
Improve ED Metrics
Healthcare spending represents around 18 percent of the U.
Observation Care That Works
Improve ED Metrics, Improve Patient Satisfaction, Improve Hospital Capacity
Dedicated and Efficient How to cut length of stay, lower readmissions and raise patient satisfaction with a Dedicated Observation Unit.
From Failure to Success
Improve ED Metrics, Develop New Partnerships
On New Years Eve, as the clock tolled midnight and 2012 began, US Acute Care Solutions officially assumed management of Bristol Hospital emergency department.
- Bristol Hospital
- ED Volume: 41,000