In today's health care environment non-labor supply expenses typically represent 40% to 50% of a hospital's total operating expenses.

In this challenging economic climate, hospital executives are looking for innovative ways to identify, implement, and sustain cost-effective, operational performance, while improving organizational workflow, reducing risk to patients, maintaining regulatory compliance readiness, and improving the overall quality of care and staff satisfaction.

Nexera can help develop and implement cost-reduction and operational improvement strategies designed to strengthen your financial performance, while improving the quality and efficiency of the patient care and services you provide. 

It is important that supply chain management involve more than the acquisition and movement of supplies. To provide the greatest impact on a hospital's overall viability, supply chain management must evolve to include operational enrichment, clinical collaboration, and revenue management matched to procurement. We provide health care organizations with a comprehensive view of their operational costs and process effectiveness as to identify and capitalize on improvement opportuniities facility-wide.

• Supply Chain Management
  Analysis of current materials management processes, distribution logistics, costs, and technology.

• Non-Labor Cost Reduction
  Assessment and analyses performed in all major non-labor areas including materials management, finance, surgical services, lab, pharmacy, dietary, environmental services, and plant operations.

• Department Specific Operations
  Operations assessment performed in specific, focused non-labor areas including surgical services, lab, pharmacy, dietary, environmental services, biomedial engineering, and plant operations.

• Strategic Planning
  Assess a hospital's primary competition within a defined geographic or primary service area (PSA), identifying market value opportuniities, developing specific planning tools, and supporting the hospital's strategic planning. 

• Contract Management Process
  Develop strategies to reduce costs and enhance operational efficiency, through contract optimzation and contract management process improvement.

• Strategy and Process Improvement Implementation
  Assistance and hands-on support in workflow redesign, change management, operational improvement, and cost reduction opportunity implementation.

• Revenue Cycle
  Revenue cycle performance enhancement solutions designed to produce immediate and long-term improvements in accounts receivables and accounts payable, enhancing net revenue, and redesigning end-to-end revenue cycle processes.

• Organizational Customer Services Development
  An organizational assessment designed to create a customized plan resulting in immediate and sustainable benefits including an improved patient experience, increased staff productivity and morale, adn an overall enhancement of the organizational environment, with a focus on service excellence.