Service Line Planning
With growing demand and increasing competition for services, limited capital to invest, and staff shortages in clinical disciplines, most healthcare providers simply cannot afford to be all things to all people. They must balance priorities for current clinical service offerings with new business ventures in order to meet their missions and sustain profitable growth. Service Line Planning enables healthcare providers to materially improve the performance of their organizations at a product line level.Noblis professionals have decades of experience in a broad range of service line disciplines, including cardiovascular, oncology, emergency medicine, women’s health, radiology, orthopedics, and neurosciences. In addition, we are highly skilled in market assessment, business planning, financial analysis, information technology, and operations improvement and innovation. As an objective and knowledgeable partner, we can help you identify and assess service line opportunities.
The Right Combination of Business and Clinical Expertise
Our approach to Service Line Planning incorporates a clear strategic direction for the service, a disciplined planning process, and data-driven decision-making. We help you define the scope of the service line, document the current and future demand for that service in your market, understand your current market position and financial performance of your service, evaluate your current resources and operating processes, and define the obstacles to achieving your full market potential.
We empower you to address obstacles and develop business plans that improve the systemwide performance of your clinical service. It takes the right combination of people, processes, and technology to drive the best results for patients and the optimal performance for your organization. By bridging service line strategy, physician strategy and clinical performance our professionals develop plans that help ensure your success.
Our Service Line Planning Services Include:
- Comprehensive clinical service line business plans
- Performance report cards for individual service lines
- Service line program development plans for:
- Emergency services
- Ambulatory care services
- Cardiology services
- Orthopedic services
- Oncology services
- Imaging services
- New venture and joint venture financial feasibility studies
- Service line financial impact analyses
- Service line physician needs assessments
- Future demand planning and market opportunity assessments
- Consumer market research
- Service line strategic visioning
- Service line planning retreat facilitation
- Service line physician relations facilitation
Examples of Noblis Service Line Planning Engagements Include:
- Comprehensive systemwide service line business planning for women’s and children’s health services
- Feasibility study for a multi-specialty ambulatory care center
- Hospital business plan for a state-of-the-art imaging center
- Concept of operations for an academic medical center’s new musculoskeletal center
If you would like information regarding our services, please contact one of our practice professionals or our national headquarters at 703-610-1500 or 866-882-9007 or you can e-mail us at HealthInnovation@noblis.org.
