AI and machine learning proliferate the news. Predictions about breakthroughs in multiple fields such as radiology and diagnostics abound. If you accept the central thesis behind Moore’s Law and that exponential improvements in price, size, speed and capability of technology will continue – combined with the knowledge that we’ve been on this path for over […]
Full story »Strategic Growth and Innovation
Galloway’s experience and approach sorts through complexity and produces clarity, improving performance in all key areas – quality, safety, service, volume, revenue, cost, and patient flow. We invite you to browse the insights below.
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Work Force Management Design – A Case Study
This 500-bed urban hospital, located in Florida, was challenged to control staffing costs through seasonal patient volumes fluctuations. During the surge season, agency staff and significant overtime frequently inflated costs while flexing down in the slow seasons fell short of fully adapting to lower volumes. Bench-marking indicated a labor opportunity of $5.5M spread across the […]
Full story »Achieving Organization Agility Through Decision Rights and Governance
Proper organizational structure is one of the most critical enablers to any successful strategy implementation – but it is only one part. Clarity in decisions rights – who gets to decide what – and the governance processesthat support those decision rights – are fundamental to nimble executive management and allowing the organization structure and strategy implementation to work […]
Full story »Helping Health Systems Find the Right Balance Between Standardization and Flexibility
All of our national and super-regional clients are moving along a journey to become “operating companies” and trying to discern the right balance between standardization and flexibility. We find many of these organizations still in the early stages of identifying these “best practices” and understanding the impact of national standards on the outcomes they should […]
Full story »Creating an Organizational Sense of Urgency
Achieving organizational urgency is easy when the house is on fire. More challenging is moving your company out of its comfort zone and the status-quo toward improvement. Sometimes that sense of urgency is clouded by excuses that seem reasonable – and that every year supposedly “unique” one-off excuses arise – masking the organization’s urgent need to resolve these issues. […]
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