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Healthcare Visions Consulting
http://www.emsconsultingservice.com
Health Care Visions provides innovative, client-specific EMS consulting services to customers across North America. Incorporated under the name Steven L. Athey, Inc., the company draws on the expertise of contracted professional associates in service to a wide range of clients across the United States and Canada. A flexible consultant-based business structure allows for the better utilization and specialization of personnel with significantly low overhead costs, a savings Health Care Visions is able to pass on to the company's clients. President Steve Athey founded Health Care Visions in response to his perception of a growing need for EMS-specific consulting services. Thirty years of experience in EMS, much of it spent leading both stand-alone and multi-site ambulance operations, had convinced Steve that the prevailing cookie-cutter approach to EMS management simply wasn't working. He set out to build a company that could effectively deliver specific solutions for distinct issues. Entering its fifteenth year of operations, Health Care Visions has developed a consulting network of experts that can bring the talent of industry leaders to a project as needed. The Health Care Visions team is just as comfortable working on a single-site, short-term assignment as implementing a long-term multi-faceted project. Health Care Visions consultants offer an average of over 30 years of specialized industry experience. Clients benefit from professional, thoughtful and thorough consulting support. Product List Health Care Visions offers a variety of EMS consultant services, including the following. • System analysis and design • Strategic management or the development and implementation of strategic plans • Operational reviews • Management development programs • Crisis management • Accreditation preparation and review • Proposal preparation • Request for Proposal (RFP) preparation and contracting • Contracted management services • Market protection, marketing plans or Public Relations programs • Supervisory training programs • Expert witness services Experience The Health Care Visions team has assisted organizations and municipalities with a number of projects as detailed in the company's Client Listing. Health Care Visions is currently engaged in projects including the following products. • Operational analysis, recommendation development and implementation assistance for a major national EMS firm including response time improvement and System Status Management evaluation and analysis • Public Relations planning, development and implementation • System review and proposal development in response to Request for Proposal • Research and analysis (benchmarking) of EMS systems to discover similarities/differences surrounding personnel issues • Identification, development and implementation of system enhancements in a major urban EMS system • Strategic planning and crisis management in a 911 EMS model References are available upon request.
