Healthcare Performance Strategies Prepares Expansion of Unique Healthcare Services

Healthcare Performance Strategies (HPS), a physician-led consulting firm focused on assisting hospitals in improving delivery of anesthesia services, mitigating the impact of anesthesia subsidies and enhancing performance and profitability in the operating room, announced today that it will soon be adding a suite of performance measurement products to its offerings.

Brentwood, TN (PRWEB) August 7, 2008 - Healthcare Performance Strategies (HPS), a physician-led consulting firm focused on assisting hospitals in improving delivery of anesthesia services, mitigating the impact of anesthesia subsidies and enhancing performance and profitability in the operating room, announced today that it will soon be adding a suite of performance measurement products to its offerings.

Founded and led by Robert Stiefel, M.D. and Brian Dietrich, HPS offers extensive experience in creation and redesign of anesthesia groups, structure and negotiation of anesthesia contracts, subsidy mitigation, revenue cycle optimization and operating room improvement initiatives. In addition to anesthesia subsidy reduction, anesthesia employment modeling and anesthesia revenue cycle optimization, HPS specializes in OR process improvement initiatives and interim anesthesia group management.

"We offer healthcare organizations customized services to improve their anesthesia services, which has a direct link to the bottom line and increased profitability through reduced operating costs and increased physician and staff satisfaction in anesthesia and OR," explained Robert Stiefel, M.D., principal of HPS. "As one of the only service providers focused on anesthesia optimization in the healthcare market, we work with our clients to develop and implement valuable, cost-effective process and workflow improvements."

About Healthcare Performance Strategies
HealthCare Performance Strategies (HPS), a results-oriented consulting company dedicated to delivering bottom line results by improving anesthesia delivery models and operating room suites, was founded by healthcare executives with significant operating room and anesthesia group experience and physician experts in performance improvement and "real world" implementation (reorder). The HPS team has extensive experience in creation and redesign of anesthesia groups, structure and negotiation of anesthesia/hospital contracts, revenue cycle optimization, hospital employment models and operating room improvement initiatives. Our mission is to provide customized services that will increase profitability and market share, and our background in both clinical and business operations allows us to quickly identify opportunities to meet strategic goals and enhance financial performance.

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