Nursing Home

LFKD provides a variety of services to nursing homes:

• Management Services
• New Construction Services
• Medicare/Medicaid Auditing
• New Start-up with CON
• Medicare/Medicaid/JCAHO Surveys

One of our most popular programs is providing mock surveys to nursing homes in advance of the arrival of inspectors.  We employ former healthcare regulators to review all areas covered by state/federal and JACHO regulators during the survey.  We thoroughly inspect and review all aspects of operations to determine each facility’s deficiencies and provide what is necessary to avoid deficiency assessments.

In today’s market nursing homes are being sued and in court (1 out of every 5 facilities) for claims ranging from simple negligence to wrongful death.  LFKD is able to provide skilled services to aid facilities in avoiding legal actions by eliminating dangerous and substandard practices and keeping meticulous records of patient care.  We work with the all departments, staff and management members to ensure that your facility is organized to prevent substantial claims and equipped to handily defeat frivolous claims.  We do this by providing training and educational resources aimed at the practice  areas most commonly targeted by attorneys. 

Rural/Community Hospital

A crisis in your facility is a risk for the community that relies on your services. Hospitals in rural communities or in Metro city are complex businesses that require special attention.  Hitherto unexperienced difficulties in operations and management  as a result of recent developments in healthcare cost and reimbursement systems present new challenges which require specialized and state of the art management techniques.

LFKD is equipped to efficiently assess the strengths and weaknesses of your operations.  We provide a host of outsourcing services to enable your facility to recover quickly from slow reimbursements.

Our executive team understands the crisis faced today with rising costs of providing healthcare in the face of shrinking income streams.  Providing excellent service in an economical fashion has become the requirement for the survival of your facility.  We have the resources and experience to maximize your competitive edge.

Our team of experts is available to help provide assistance in meeting the needs of small disadvantaged facilities.  We provide a wide range of assistance to rural/community hospitals:

• Turnaround Services
• Crisis Management Services
• Regulations & Safety Services
• Public Relations & Marketing
• Clinics & Satellite Services
• Interim Management Services
• New Program Feasibility & Strategy Implementation
• Interim Management Services for Financial and Operations Accountability

Trustees and Board members tend to focus on short term profit and the bottom-line when the real issues are loss prevention, quality care and efficient reimbursement.  Getting caught sleep at the table may cost your facility millions.

Can your Board members and executives answer these questions:

• What constitutes our operating margin?
• What constitutes our expensing margin?
• What services or programs generate profits?
• What services or programs generate losses?
• Should we continue to offer services or programs that create losses?
• Should we reduce the size of our operations?
• Are our staff and physicians happy?
• What risks does our institution face?
• Are net revenues reflective of our cash flow?
• What is our collections rate?
• What profitable lines of business are susceptible to our institution for survival?
• Are we investing or re-engineering the right lines of business for the future of our institution?
• Are we marketable to health care insurance companies?
• Are we being adequately compensated for the services provided to our Insurance providers?

This is illustrative of the areas examined by our experts to help understand the problems your facility may face.  LFKD provides prudent explanations to the questions needed to understand your facility’s bottom-line.

LFKD provides an up close and personal consulting services to your board of directors that go beyond a review or audit.  We provide detailed explanations of what’s  working and what’s not.  Keeping your facility ahead of its time in the real world of health care.

Enhancing care, physician recruitment, expanding current services and new program development is a key to the long-term success of your facility.  We can help!

• improving patient volume
• developing profitable programs and services
• attracting new physicians
• attracting nurses
• hospital expansion and construction services