Critical Access Hospitals

Helping you succeed...not just survive

As a health care leader, you know the challenges of managing in today’s rural and community hospital environment. Success isn’t easy to come by. Achieving success requires the knowledge and resources to manage the operational, financial, strategic, and governance dimensions of your organization. Success often hinges on finding answers to these key questions:

  • How can we optimize our reimbursement?
  • How do we manage resources effectively?
  • How can we attract and retain quality professional and medical staff?
  • How can we remain competitive with other health care facilities?
  • How can we improve our physician/staff relations?
  • Is our information technology up to date, efficient, and effective?
  • What will the future look like?
  • Where are we going, and how are we going to get there?

With experts in finance, technology, people, and process, we can help you achieve success.
This expertise enables us to provide you with a wide range of services—and added
value. Our team can assist you with:

  • Reimbursement/Medicare and Medicaid cost reporting
  • Strategic planning and implementation
  • Facility planning and feasibility studies
  • Community Health Needs Assessment
  • Strategic partnerships, alliances, and networks
  • Information technology assessment and vendor selection
  • Senior services planning and market analysis
  • Leadership training, board education,governance consultation, organizational development, and culture transformation
  • Audit
  • Balanced scorecard, lean process improvement, and activity-based costing

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Featured Expertise
 

Mike Bell, CPA

Mike Bell has more than 30 years of public accounting experience, focusing exclusively on the health care industry. He provides a full range of accounting, auditing, reimbursement, and financial consulting services to an array of health care organizations throughout the country, including hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, physician clinics, rural health clinics, federally qualified health clinics, home health agencies, and nursing homes.

 

Holly Pokrandt, CPA

Holly Pokrandt has more than 20 years of experience in audit and accounting, focusing exclusively on the health care industry. She serves a wide range of health care entities, including Critical Access Hospitals, Prospective Payment Systems, and provider-based clinics.

 

Steve Thompson, CPA

Steve Thompson has more than 30 years of accounting, auditing, and consulting experience working with health care providers of all types. He focuses on community and rural hospitals with an emphasis in Medicare reimbursement for Critical Access Hospitals. In addition, Steve assists critical access hospitals and nursing homes with operational assessments to help them make sound business decisions.

 

 
 
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Featured Success Story


Navitus Health Solutions, LLC


A review of internal business processes to ensure 100% transparency.



Westfields Hospital
Mary Beth Fitzgerald, RN and Performance Improvement Manager

Westfields Hospital’s goal was to make strategy a part of everyone’s daily job and to measure that progress was being made toward achieving the strategic objectives of the organization. Though it seemed a lofty goal in the beginning, Wipfli guided us down this path.

McKenzie Hospital
JoAnn Hall, Project Coordinator

“We are coming up to month-end for the ED project and saw significant revenue increases at the 15-day mark.  We have done a lot of education for staff, especially in the area of infusions/IV injections and their appropriate selection. So far, it is going well and staff is very receptive to the change.”