Opioids have long been a highly effective pain management method. However, they are not the ideal first step or a long-term solution to pain. Many community hospitals constantly need to find alternatives to offer patients facing dire pain situations. Integrating pain management within anesthesia services is one potential route to improving patient care.
Integrating pain management services into an anesthesia practice enables patients to benefit from improved care while offering hospital efficiency benefits. Patients receive the support they need while avoiding the risks associated with opioid dependency. It creates additional revenue streams for practices looking to expand their services.
Benefits of Integrated Pain Management and Anesthesia Services
Anesthesiologists can provide diverse pain management strategies for individuals, including both preventative treatment and acute surgical pain. They can also create strategies to deal with chronic pain and work to avoid the onset of such pain in the first place. Consider some of the benefits of integrating pain management into your anesthesia services.
- Improve patient experience. By offering these services, you create a better level and type of care for your patients, helping them to be comfortable when they need support.
- Improve workflow and efficiency within your organization. By incorporating pain management into your anesthesia services, you can create efficiencies and minimize wait times without adding a new department.
- Expert care is already available. Anesthesiologists have the unique ability to provide pain management strategies for all types and causes of pain, and they already have a varied assortment of methods to address most patient needs.
- Integrating pain management into anesthesia minimizes the need for additional compliance layers. Implementing a single set of compliance requirements creates less compliance risk.
- Care is personalized for the patient, creating more exacting and effective solutions. Integrating these services allows patients to receive support based on their circumstances.
- It is cost-effective. For most organizations, costs matter, and integrating pain management into your anesthesia department is a cost-effective way of providing critical services while trimming the budget as needed.
Contact CCI Anesthesia now to find out how well the integration of pain management and anesthesia can work for your community hospital.
