The First Step to Improving Critical Care

ICU Consulting

With critically ill patients accounting for nearly 30 percent of their total costs, hospitals are eager to institute better ways to organize and manage their intensive care units. The Intensivist Group provides objective evaluations of critical care services. Our clients include community hospitals that are dissatisfied with their current intensivist-led programs as well as hospitals that want to assess the benefits, costs and issues of introducing an intensivist-led approach.

While we adapt our approach to fit the needs and circumstances of each hospital or health system, we provide on-site evaluation and information gathering along with analysis based on our deep expertise in critical care best practices. Our consulting engagements are led by physician experts who spend several days conducting structured interviews, reviewing charts and observing the delivery of care in the ICU or ICUs. In addition, we review all ICU protocols, order sets and physician contracts for intensivist services.

Based on the information provided, The Intensivist Group also assesses the available ICU performance data for both quality and results achieved. When possible, we benchmark the hospital’s outcomes against national data.  We present the analysis and key recommendations for restructuring critical care services, including financial models of how the proposed changes will affect costs and revenues, in a comprehensive written report.