Results: Service Line Planning
Goals:
- Establish a business plan for a new open heart service, including physician alignment strategies
- Operationalize and open the new open heart surgery program
Results:
- Business plan and financial projections for the open heart service line
- A successfully staffed, equipped and operationalized open-heart program that resulted in:
- 300 incremental heart cases in year one
- Program halo effect that increased other surgery volume by 10%, radiology procedures by over 10%, and laboratory 12%
