Service Line Transformation

About This Blog

Welcome to the Marketing and Planning Leadership Council’s blog, Service Line Transformation. This blog serves as the primary communication channel for our Service Line Transformation Initiative, a special multi-year research effort dedicated to helping organizations prepare key service lines for risk-based payment. We will address challenges ranging from growth strategy innovations for key services lines to chronic care strategy, service line leadership, innovative approaches to service line marketing, and more.

For more information on the Service Line Transformation Initiative, or to send us questions, comments, or leads on innovative service line and care delivery models, please email Eric Sanford.

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Growing pediatric orthopedic programs

on February 27, 2012  |  Permalink

Topics: Service Lines, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Volume Growth, Strategy, Service Line Growth

Eric Cragun

We often receive questions about pediatric-specific service line strategies. In many cases, the same tactics that hospitals use to drive referrals to service lines more generally apply to growing pediatric volume.

In a recent Expert Insight piece on strategies for growing pediatric orthopedic programs, we outlined how many of the strategies mirror broader approaches to orthopedic service line growth. That said, while many of the tactics may be similar, successfully applying them to pediatric orthopedics growth requires some nuanced implementation.

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