Blood banks and donor facilities are experiencing financial and organizational pressures to operate more efficiently and reduce costs, thus doing more with less. TxMS can help your organization through contract management, systems re-engineering, process improvements, and the development of new products and services, all designed to improve staffing, optimize operational resources, or improve financial performance and reimbursement, without compromising patient care or outcome.
Re-engineer the Traditional Blood Bank
TxMS can recommend and implement advanced management techniques that provide solutions to address the lack of staff with blood bank knowledge and experience, including:
- Centralization - Create a single management structure and physical facility for blood bank administration, contract negotiations, vendor selection, purchasing, patient testing, etc.
- Standardization - Implement common management, technical and operational procedures and practices across all blood banks within a hospital system.
- Consolidation - Incorporate multiple hospital blood banks into a seamless, single, efficient organization.
- Automation - Identify, implement and validate the best available operational and information technology for your specific applications.
- Improving hospital/community donor programs – Expand an existing donor service program by providing an in-depth analysis of the current operations, potential growth opportunities and the methods to achieve the desired growth. Evaluate collection requirements, cost per unit collected, profitability projections, etc., for a proposed new program. Provide design and implementation management for a new collection facility.
- New transfusion service facility design - Determine facility requirements, workflow patterns, IT requirements, automation needs, and staffing levels. Provide design and implementation management for all aspects of the project.
- Billing and collection audits – Review, analyze, evaluate, and recommend changes to insure correct procedural coding and reimbursement.
- Blood utilization – Identify, evaluate, implement and document solutions to improve blood component use.
- Benchmarking services – Use TxMS standardized tools to compare performance of blood bank processes within a system and with data across the entire industry. Identify improvement opportunities (i.e. reducing blood component waste, cost per patient transfused, cost per blood component transfused, cost per unit collected, cost per component produced, crossmatch to transfusion ratio, transfusion triggers, etc.), project priorities, and measurable goals.
Management Services
TxMS can provide management expertise and personnel, as needed, to solve your staffing needs and meet project deadlines.
- Consulting - TxMS provides staff to help you with a specific project.
- Management - TxMS provides staff with a working knowledge of management, operations, blood bank techniques and technology, and staffing to support your needs. On-site time can be customized to meet your specific needs.
- Total outsourcing – TxMS can assume full “day-in, day-out” operational responsibility for managing blood banks and donor services. This management contract covers all staffing, financial management, equipment, human resources, and other aspects of the blood bank.
