Emergency Department Consulting

  • Comprehensive on-site evaluation of your emergency department
  • Prioritize relevant solutions
  • Two or more on-site consultants (at least one emergency physician)


EmEx-ConsultEmergency Department Consulting Services

Choose from one of our standard emergency room consulting engagements or we can customize our services to best meet your needs:

EmEx Consult:
Rapid Improvement Plan

  • 2 day on-site evaluation of your emergency department
  • Prioritize relevant solutions
  • Two or more on-site consultants (at least one emergency physician)

EmEx-Transform:
Emergency Department Transformation
  • Comprehensive consulting engagement to completely transform your emergency department
  • Hands-on implemention of emergency room improvement solutions
  • At least two consultants will be on-site twice a month over the course of the six month engagement
  • We can also help you improve inpatient patient flow and throughput

EmEx-Optimize:
Emergency Department Performance Improvement
  • Long-term performance monitoring and improvement (1, 2, or 3 years)
  • Monthly on-site visits over the course of the emergency department consulting engagement
  • Assist in setting and achieving emergency room performance goals
  • Fine-tune processes and maintain successes
  • Mentor and coach your emergency department team

 
 
 
 

EmEx-Consult Rapid Improvement Plan

EmEx-TransformEmergency Department Transformation

EmEx-Transform picks up where EmEx-Consult leaves off. With EmEx-Consult, our emergency department consultants develop a comprehensive rapid improvement plan that offers your hospital a road-map to success.  With EmEx-Transform, we offer an intensive, hands-on approach to help implement solutions. We work closely with emergency department and hospital leaders to transform your emergency room into a top performer. Two or more of our emergency room consultants will travel to your hospital on average twice a month over the course of the six month engagement, in addition to spending hundreds of off-site hours actively engaged in all aspects of the performance improvement process.  You will have constant access to our team during the entire engagement. We help hospitals implement best practices and address areas needing improvement, to help fortify the seven distinct Pillars of Excellence.

Emergency Excellence can help you maximize emergency department quality and performance. We particularly emphasize solutions to improve patient flow and throughput, and as a result, minimize door-to-doctor times and LWBS rates. Our patient-centered approach helps reduce patient waits and improve patient satisfaction. Our emergency medicine consultants work closely with emergency nurses and staff, to improve workflow and enhance relationships.  We look at the entire hospital as a whole, and actively engage all key stakeholders, as many of our solutions require close collaboration outside of the emergency department.

Our EmEx-Transform consultants include emergency physicians and nurses with extensive emergency department practice, operations, change theory, and business expertise.  Unlike many other consulting firms, we feel a strong clinical background is extremely important.

We also offer EmEx-Optimize, where we provide long-term performance monitoring and improvement after the EmEx-Transform engagement has concluded.
EmEx-Compare performed prior to consulting engagement.

EmEx-OptimizeEmergency Department Performance Improvement

EmEx-Optimize picks up where EmEx-Transform leaves off.  With EmEx-Transform, we offer an intensive, hands-on approach to help your emergency department implement solutions, working closely with emergency department and hospital leaders to transform your emergency room into a top performer.  With EmEx-Optimize, we remain closely engaged with your emergency department for an additional 1, 2, or 3 years, to further fine-tune processes and maintain successes.  Our emergency department consultants focus on cementing, protecting, and improving on the results of EmEx-Transform. In addition to monthly on-site visits, we remain actively engaged in all aspects of your emergency department’s operations.  We help you to set and achieve goals for superior emergency department performance.  Our emergency room consultants act as mentors and coaches to your team throughout the engagement.

EmEx-Transform engagement required prior to EmEx-Optimize.

How is Emergency Excellence different from other emergency department consulting organizations?

Our emergency room consultants include practicing emergency physician and nurse leaders with ER operations expertise
EmEx-Compare, our benchmarking/survey service, is used to obtain a comprehensive pre-engagement review
We specialize in emergency department performance improvement – unlike other firms, emergency care isn’t simply one of many service lines
We are independently owned (other consultants may have recommendation biases related to their parent company)