Garrick Hyde Consulting specializes in the use of peer group benchmarking when studying client healthcare organizations. Even though we customize many of our studies and analyses to a client's unique needs, we do offer a standard benchmarking product to hospitals interested in evaluating their financial, productivity, and skill-mix performances at a departmental level. View two sample pages from this detailed report, or contact us for a complete sample report.
GHC maintains benchmarks from over 500 comparator hospitals for 73 patient-care and 50 support-service areas. GHC first benchmarks each department's total expense, followed by detailed expense types (wages, benefits, purchased services and professional fees, and supplies).
In addition to the expense analyses, GHC provides clients with departmental productivity analyses, using both paid and productive hours. And, for even greater detail, we analyze departmental skill mix and wage rates for the following job categories:
- Management & Supervision
- Technical & Specialist
- Registered Nurse
- Licenses Practical Nurse
- Nursing Aides & Orderlies
- Salaried Physicians
- Nonphysician Medical Practitioners
- Clerical & Administrative
- Environmental & Food Service
In addition to our highly detailed studies of hospital financial, productivity, and skill-mix benchmarking at the department level, we also perform studies of hospital inpatient issues at the diagnosis related group (DRG) or primary procedure levels, such as:
- Procedure costs and charges
- Length of stay
- Patient origin and migration
- Readmission rates
- Outcomes
- Payer mix
Additionally, we analyze physicians' hospital fees and productivity. Outside of the hospital setting, we study long-term care facilities, freestanding clinics, and home health agencies.
