Like most corporations, healthcare organizations typically have a strategic plan for success. These often include financial targets, regulatory and accreditation issues, clinical quality and safety objectives, and patient satisfaction goals

But since only one-third of U.S. hospitals are financially sound, the vast majority of hospitals are unsuccessful at executing these plans.

ActiveStrategy helps healthcare organizations turn a strategic plan into an actionable performance framework, starting with a top-level Balanced Scorecard that begins to provide the focus and accountability necessary to drive results.

The top-level Scorecard is really just the foundation. To make the Balanced Scorecard drive true results, it must be cascaded into lower-level, linked Scorecards that ultimately extend down and across the entire system or hospital.

We coach healthcare organizations through this process, embedding a solid understanding of the methodologies required for future enhancements and deployment.

Today’s healthcare organizations are practically drowning in measures. Some are required for reimbursement or accreditation; others must be publicly reported, while still others track internal improvement efforts.

Thus, many healthcare executives fall into the trap of reporting every conceivable measure on their top-level scorecard, negating one of the primary benefits of a Balanced Scorecard: Focus.

All of these measures are important, but not all are important at every level of the organization. We have tools and techniques that help hospitals determine how to handle measures most effectively.