Reducing LOS in a Number of High Volume DRGs
Reducing LOS in a Number of High Volume DRGs
1 Pages• Firelands Regional Medical Center is non-profit, 400-bed health system and the only full service medical center serving patients in Erie County on the north coast of Ohio • Crimson analyses identify a number of high-volume DRG groups—Psychoses, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, and COPD—where the LOS for patients at Firelands was significantly higher than the GMLOS • Firelands suspects two problems with physician practice—inefficient LOS managemen
