Teaming up with EarlyMobility.com rather than creating an early mobility or safe patient handling and movement program on your own provides you with:

 

Faster Results:

With a structured plan, correct processes, and the right training, EarlyMobility.com consultants can help improve patient and employee outcomes and save money faster. One facility saved $30,000 per month, every month, starting the third month. 

 

Expert Guidance:

EarlyMobility.com consultants are experienced and credentialed in the areas you need most. They work right alongside you to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement and then help smooth out bumps along the way.

 

Personalized Programs:

Consultants work together with you to create a plan tailored specifically to your unique needs, challenges, and goals. 

 

Team Approach:

Early mobility integration begins when a patient enters your door and continues past discharge into the nursing facility or back to their home. Early mobility is interdisciplinary, and each member of the team has a role in ensuring their patient retains and improves functional mobility.

 

Our interdisciplinary approach follows HRO principles and addresses the most tenacious barriers - relational teamwork: nurses and therapists working together; practitioners being involved and helping adjust patient expectations; involving family in the care, supporting equipment decisions; and helping you understand the challenges and the pros and cons of different solutions and successful methods.

 

Focus Driven:
We keep the focus on the initiative. Staff in the facility wear many hats; with so many people and so many roles, it can be hard to implement and achieve a true culture shift without support. So many start, then struggle to sustain early mobility programs; upfront investments are made, but investments aren’t realized because teams lose focus. We specialize in accountability and helping teams stay on course, starting with early wins.

 

Sustainment Through Metrics and Program Integration:

By incorporating the right metrics into your electronic records system, information can be quickly gathered and displayed in a way that ensures mobility integration into all needed specialties. 

 

ROI Analysis:

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of patient care, numerous factors impact the total cost of that care. By identifying, measuring, and then improving the primary cost drivers impacting patient mobility, the patient outcomes and financial benefits are substantial. 

Our program uses evidence-based analysis to create a business case, determine how much your organization can save, and then help track the savings as they’re realized. 

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Results:
Here’s results from recent organizations who received EarlyMobilty.com consulting:

One organization saved $30,000 per month, every month, within six months of support.

One organization saved almost $500,000 in six months

One organization saved just over $1,000,000 dollars in ten months.

 

Gap Analysis:

Clients often ask, where do we start? Begin with a review to understand where you are now, where you want to be, and what is needed to fill the gap. EarlyMobility.com conducts an invaluable, HRO driven, gap analysis of your mobility culture by assessing values and norms, the environment, processes, staff knowledge, and equipment. The gap analysis is used to determine strengths, weaknesses, and areas of greatest opportunity. The insights gained are shared alongside a business case that clearly demonstrates the overwhelming benefit of implementing a safe early and continuous mobility program. 

 

Education and Training

Knowledge and experience provide the foundation for action. Our energetic team of experienced physicians, clinicians, and advisors work together with you to provide education and training that is tailored to meet the needs of your various specialties, including nursing, therapy, leadership, aides, professionals in ancillary departments, and others.  Clients tell us that they find our training programs to be valuable and that they result in positive improvement. 

Training programs are provided online, in person, in-depth, and in just-in-time short videos. Example topics include:

 

Physical therapy tips and tricks:

How to incorporate mobility into daily nursing care

Early mobility champion education, training, and competencies

Management: How to support your staff as they embark on the safe early and continuous mobility journey

The business case for early mobility