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Why should a hospital own a sleep center?
Developing a hospital sleep center is a great way for your hospital to enhance its ongoing image and success. A few of the benefits are:
- Preserve and expand your hospitals market base and community presence
- Minimize threats that your hospital faces including competing outpatient sleep centers
- Expand your capacity by redirecting patients to your own efficient and lower cost ASC
- Protect your hospitals payer mix by not allowing your physicians to leave your system, taking with them their best and most profitable cases with them
- Leverage your sleep center as a recruiting tool to attract new physicians
Sleep Center Development
We develop turn-key customized sleep centers for hospitals to own 100%. Our program is designed to provide you with a complete turn-key, accredited and integrated sleep center to diagnose and treat your patients sleep disorders typically in 90 to 150 days. We provide all the expertise necessary to fully develop your sleep center and pursue accreditation. We can source the personnel, provide staff training and education. We also provide a variety of
customized management services for your sleep program allowing you to add a valuable new ancillary service to your hospital. Most importantly, we maintain a unique patient compliance program to ensure that your patients are maintaining therapy compliance after diagnosis. We can assistance with financing if needed and help set up the legal structure
of a hospital physician services agreement working together with your
physicians. Here’s what we provide you to develop and manage a comprehensive turn-key sleep center:
Development
- Due diligence & Proforma development
- Development of capital expenditure budgets
- Volume validation
- Aid with legal structure of the hospital
- Review and aid with payer contracts
- Development of operating budgets
- Site location and acquire lease space for approval by hospital
- Lease negotiation for approval by hospital
- Confirm lab size and volume capacity
- Provide design and construction oversight
- Source local architects/ engineers and contractors to build out space
- Cath lab/ ASC space conversion options
- IT, equipment and furniture procurement
- Policy & procedure manual development and placement (clinical & business)
- Source hiring of sleep technicians and clinic coordinator/office manager
- Didactic (classroom) training for sleep techs
- On-site implementation training for coordinator & sleep techs
- Physician awareness and patient screening tools provided
- Development/ implementation meetings
- Provide for provisional accreditation upon opening
- Pursue permanent accreditation after opening
Management Services
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