BETA Consulting Services
At the heart of patient and employee safety is the development of a resilient safety culture and the infrastructure to maintain it. BETA Healthcare Group, long recognized for its innovative and robust patient safety and employee safety programs and its leading-edge risk strategy, works with hospitals, health plans and many other types of healthcare organizations to instill best practices and operationalize strategies to strengthen systems for safety and a foundational level. These efforts contribute to the delivery of safe, high-quality care, positive patient experiences and a workplace environment in which employees can thrive.
Our Expertise, Your Peace of Mind
We offer our consulting services to BETA members and healthcare organizations that are not part of our insurance program to advance quality and reliable healthcare with evidence-based solutions and are pleased to lend our expertise to carry out safety strategies that will benefit patients, their families and employees. Contact us at riskmgmt@betahg.com to learn more about how we can work with you.
Why BETA?
BETA recognizes that healthcare organizations have complexities and characteristics unlike any other industry. Our sole focus on the healthcare industry and 45-year history of helping organizations mitigate risk uniquely qualifies us to deliver expert consulting services tailored to an organization’s needs, working alongside your team to implement strategies and practices that meet your goals and imperatives.
Is your organization looking to enhance access to care? Improve the patient experience? Build a resilient and stable healthcare workforce? Establish a transparent culture of safety and collaboration?
With You on Your Safety Journey
BETA’s Risk Consulting team can assist you on your journey towards safety and quality improvement to enhance patient outcomes, reduce burnout for clinicians and providers, advance communication and collaboration across service lines and leverage real-time data to inform strategy and operationalize systems for safety. It all makes a difference to patients, families, employees and the bottom line.
- Consulting engagements customized to the needs and requirements of your organization.
- Access to seasoned professionals with expertise in both risk management and hospital operations.
- Service offerings designed to help your organization meet current and future guidelines and regulatory requirements, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) which looks at safety culture and the implementation of a communication resolution program (CRP) such as our BETA HEART® program, among other measures and metrics centered on policy, leadership commitment, data management, learning, accountability and transparency and patient and family engagement.
Our Team
BETA’s risk management and safety consultants are seasoned individuals with a wealth of experience in healthcare. Many on the team came to BETA after careers in hospitals and healthcare organizations, bringing a unique perspective and skillset to each organization we partner with. Our consultants can create custom presentations on risk and safety topics and work alongside an organization’s team to build upon their own initiatives and programs. Their ability to coach, mentor and lend expertise to operationalize safety precepts and train to the concepts is unparalleled in the industry.
Learn More
We have the knowledge and know-how to help you jumpstart development of a robust safety culture and build out the infrastructure to sustain it. Find out more by contacting the BETA Risk Consulting team at riskmgmt@betahg.com.
The Word on BETA
Don’t take our word for it. Current BETA members shared their thoughts on BETA and what it’s like to work with us in our 2024 Customer Satisfaction Survey:
- “BETA is very proactive, responsive, and really knows their business.”
- “BETA acts more like a partner than a vendor delivering critical services to our organization.”
- “BETA is a fantastic organization.”
- “The BETA team is knowledgeable, courteous, and provides the necessary support to the healthcare system needed to improve patient care and prevent adverse outcomes.”
- “Great resource for a small hospital.”
- “Personalized support and recommendations that assist us in attaining our goals for quality improvement.”
- “Our BETA risk professional is incredibly helpful in providing guidance and support in the development of our safety programs. I can see the results of our efforts paying off.”
- “Risk Management is knowledgeable and supportive of the quality team, ED and OB. The programs that are offered are exceptionally well-designed and have had a great impact on our approach to patient care as well as our response when unanticipated events occur.”
BETA Consulting Services
At the heart of patient and employee safety is the development of a resilient safety culture and the infrastructure to maintain it. BETA Healthcare Group, long recognized for its innovative and robust patient safety and employee safety programs and its leading-edge risk strategy, works with hospitals, health plans and many other types of healthcare organizations to instill best practices and operationalize strategies to strengthen systems for safety and a foundational level. These efforts contribute to the delivery of safe, high-quality care, positive patient experiences and a workplace environment in which employees can thrive.
Our Expertise, Your Peace of Mind
We offer our consulting services to BETA members and healthcare organizations that are not part of our insurance program to advance quality and reliable healthcare with evidence-based solutions and are pleased to lend our expertise to carry out safety strategies that will benefit patients, their families and employees. Contact us at riskmgmt@betahg.com to learn more about how we can work with you.
Why BETA?
BETA recognizes that healthcare organizations have complexities and characteristics unlike any other industry. Our sole focus on the healthcare industry and 45-year history of helping organizations mitigate risk uniquely qualifies us to deliver expert consulting services tailored to an organization’s needs, working alongside your team to implement strategies and practices that meet your goals and imperatives.
Is your organization looking to enhance access to care? Improve the patient experience? Build a resilient and stable healthcare workforce? Establish a transparent culture of safety and collaboration?
With You on Your Safety Journey
BETA’s Risk Consulting team can assist you on your journey towards safety and quality improvement to enhance patient outcomes, reduce burnout for clinicians and providers, advance communication and collaboration across service lines and leverage real-time data to inform strategy and operationalize systems for safety. It all makes a difference to patients, families, employees and the bottom line.
- Consulting engagements customized to the needs and requirements of your organization.
- Access to seasoned professionals with expertise in both risk management and hospital operations.
- Service offerings designed to help your organization meet current and future guidelines and regulatory requirements, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) which looks at safety culture and the implementation of a communication resolution program (CRP) such as our BETA HEART® program, among other measures and metrics centered on policy, leadership commitment, data management, learning, accountability and transparency and patient and family engagement.
Our Team
BETA’s risk management and safety consultants are seasoned individuals with a wealth of experience in healthcare. Many on the team came to BETA after careers in hospitals and healthcare organizations, bringing a unique perspective and skillset to each organization we partner with. Our consultants can create custom presentations on risk and safety topics and work alongside an organization’s team to build upon their own initiatives and programs. Their ability to coach, mentor and lend expertise to operationalize safety precepts and train to the concepts is unparalleled in the industry.
Learn More
We have the knowledge and know-how to help you jumpstart development of a robust safety culture and build out the infrastructure to sustain it. Find out more by contacting the BETA Risk Consulting team at riskmgmt@betahg.com.
The Word on BETA
Don’t take our word for it. Current BETA members shared their thoughts on BETA and what it’s like to work with us in our 2024 Customer Satisfaction Survey:
- “BETA is very proactive, responsive, and really knows their business.”
- “BETA acts more like a partner than a vendor delivering critical services to our organization.”
- “BETA is a fantastic organization.”
- “The BETA team is knowledgeable, courteous, and provides the necessary support to the healthcare system needed to improve patient care and prevent adverse outcomes.”
- “Great resource for a small hospital.”
- “Personalized support and recommendations that assist us in attaining our goals for quality improvement.”
- “Our BETA risk professional is incredibly helpful in providing guidance and support in the development of our safety programs. I can see the results of our efforts paying off.”
- “Risk Management is knowledgeable and supportive of the quality team, ED and OB. The programs that are offered are exceptionally well-designed and have had a great impact on our approach to patient care as well as our response when unanticipated events occur.”
Resources
Risk Management and Safety Consulting Brochure (PDF)
PSSM – BETA Services Crosswalk (PDF)
Services – Patient Safety
RISK ASSESSMENTS
Risk Management/Patient Safety Program
Emergency Medicine
Intensive Care Unit
Perinatal Services
Perioperative Services
Behavioral Health
Clinics and Medical Offices
Employment Practices
Aging Services
CUSTOMIZABLE PROGRAMS AND TRAINING
BETA HEART® Communication and Resolution Program
Cognitive Interviewing Training
Empathic Communication Training
Event Analysis applying RCA2
Human Factors and System Design
Culture Assessment and Debrief Methodology
Care for the Caregiver Peer Support Training
Services – Employee Safety
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK EVALUATION
Risk Mapping
Safety Management Systems Consultation
Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP)
Hazard and Risk Assessment
Safety Committee Assessment
CUSTOMIZABLE PROGRAMS AND TRAINING
Best Practice Implementation:
Safe Patient Handling and Mobility
Ergonomics-Office
Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention
Fleet Safety and Mobile Ergonomics
Opioid and Polypharmacy Prescribing
Ergonomics-Manual Lifting and Handling
Stay-at-Work/Return to Work
Workplace Violence Prevention
Training:
Heat-Related Illness Prevention Training
Office Workstation Ergonomics Training
Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Training
Workplace Violence and Active Shooter Training