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Best Practices in
Appointment Scheduling
Dawn Middleton, VP Performance Management and CQI
October 11, 2017 [10:00AM – 11:30AM]
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Webinar Objectives
• Describe how the design of an appointment scheduling system impacts efficiency and effectiveness of family planning services
• Identify best practices in the design, implementation and evaluation of appointment scheduling systems
• Strategize ways to plan appointment scheduling to maximize staff productivity and minimize client wait time
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Ensuring timely access
APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING
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Impacts…• Ability to meet program goals
• Health Care Provider Productivity
• Clinic Flow
• Client Cycle Time
• Client Wait Time for Appointment
• Client Outcomes
• Client and Staff Satisfaction
• Fiscal Reimbursement/Balanced Budget
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Appointment Schedule Should…
• Facilitate the steady stream of clients throughout the workday, resulting in
– Maximum staff productivity
– Minimum client wait
• Designed to primarily meet the needs of clients served
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FOUNDATIONS OF EFFECTIVE APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING SYSTEM
Planning to Achieve Goals
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Match Supply and Demand
• Supply – Provider’s availability
• Demand – Client need for visits
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Grounded in Unduplicated User Goals
• Appointment template should be designed to support achievement of goals associated with the number of visits unduplicated users make annually
• Assumption: User goals are an accurate reflection of anticipated client demand for services within a given service area
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Grounded in Goals - # of Visits
• EXAMPLE: Site B Visit Goals:
– Unduplicated User Goal = 2100 users/year
– Average Visits/User = 2
– Projected # of Visits to Meet Goal?
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Poll – Client Visits
• EXAMPLE: Site B Visit Goals:– Unduplicated User Goal = 2100 users/year
– Average Visits/User = 2
• What are the projected number of visits clients will make if Site B achieves their user goal?
A) 2100 annual visits
B) 4200 annual visits
C) 3200 annual visits
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Grounded in Goals - # of Visits
• ANSWER: Site B Visit Goals:
– Unduplicated User Goal = 2100 users/year
– Average Visits/User = 2
– Projected Required Annual Visits to Meet Goal:
• 2100 users/year x 2 visits/year = 4200 visits/year
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Goals – Appointment Slots Needed
• Site B – Appointment Slots Needed Annually
– Unduplicated User Goal: 2100
– Users make, on average, 2 visits/annually
– Unduplicated Users will make: 4200 visits annually
• How Many Appointment Slots Will Need to Be Available Annually to meet User Goals?
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Poll – Appointment Slots Annually
• Site B – Appointment Slots Needed Annually– Unduplicated User Goal: 2100– Users make, on average, 2 visits/annually– Unduplicated Users will make: 4200 visits annually
• How Many Appointment Slots Will Need to Be Available Annually to meet User Goals?
A) 4200B) 3800C) 5000D) Not enough information
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Goals – Appointment Slots Needed
• Site B – Appointment Slots Needed Annually:
– Visit Goal: 4200 visits/annually
– 27% average appointment no show rate
– 4200 visits/annually x .27 = 1134 appointments
– 4200 + 1134 = 5,334 appointments/annually
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Goals – Appointment Slots Needed
• Site B – Appointment Slots Needed Annually:
– 4200 + 1134 = 5,334 appointments/annually
• Site B – Appointment Slots Needed Weekly
– 5,334 appointments/42 weeks = 127 appointments/week
• Site B – Appointment Slots Needed Hourly
– Site B is open 24 hours/week
– 127 appts./week/24 hours/week = 5.3 appointments/hour
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Questions?
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Appointment Visit and Schedule Framework
APPOINTMENT SCHEDULE DEVELOPMENT
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Appointment Schedule Design
• Appointment Visit:– Single Interval
– Multiple Interval
• Appointment Schedule Design Frameworks– Block Interval
– Wave Interval
– Modified Wave
– Stream
– Open Access
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Appointment Visit
• Single Interval: each visit receives the same amount of time on the schedule regardless of the type of visit
• Multiple Interval: different visit types receive different amounts of time on the schedule
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Poll – Visit Intervals
• How many appointment visit “intervals” do your clinic sites use?
A) 1 interval
B) 2 intervals
C) 3 intervals
D) >3 intervals
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Chat – Visit Intervals
• For those of you who use 2 or more intervals –why?
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Appointment Schedule Framework
• Block Interval: each client gets the same appointment time
• Wave Interval: Appointments are double booked during the first portion of the session with no appointments scheduled during the later hours. Often called “front loading”
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Appointment Schedule Framework
• Modified Wave: Strategic double-booking, permitting a long and a short visit to be scheduled simultaneously.
• Stream Interval: clients given appointments with equal intervals between appointments. Limited double booking
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Poll – Appt. Schedule
• Site C schedules all of their visits at 9:00am and then again at 1:00pm. What type of appointment scheduling framework do they use?
A) Modified Wave
B) Stream Interval
C) Wave Interval
D) Block Interval
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Design of Appointment Schedule
BEST PRACTICES
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Best Practices - Design
• Incorporate appointment No Show Rates into appointment template design
• Reduce schedule complexity– Extensive triage process to identify right appointment slot
has not proven to be effective
• Reduce appointment type variability– Standardize appointment type– Standardize appointment length
• Reduce scheduling restrictions– New clients only on Wednesday and Friday mornings– LARC insertions once a month– Avoid closing for lunch
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Best Practices - Design
• Templates by provider not service
– Each provider should have their own template
• Carve outs
– Leave some appointments open until the day of the clinic session
• Schedule responsive to client demand
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Poll – Carve Outs
• Do any of your sites “carve out” appointment slots on the schedule for same-day appointments?
A) YES
B) NO
C) Not Sure
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Chat – Carve Outs
• How does your agency decide where to place the “carve-out” appointment slots?
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BEST PRACTICES
Implementation of Appointment Schedule and Improving No Show Rates
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Poll – Appointment No Show Rate
• What would you say the average appointment no show rate is among your clinic sites?
A) Less than 15%
B) Between 16% and 25%
C) Greater than 25%
D) Not Sure
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Best Practices - Implementation
• Limit availability of schedule - don’t schedule too far out
• Stop automatically re-scheduling follow-up appointments
• Don’t schedule visits that are not clinically required
• Schedule based on client preferences
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Best Practices - Implementation
• Protocols and scripts to encourage clients to call and cancel
• Carve outs
– Leave some appointments open until the day of the clinic session
• Web-based appointment scheduling systems
• Open Access Scheduling systems
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Client Engagement and No Shows
• Reminder calls– Give option for more personal touch
• Reminder texts– Options to respond to affirm will be attending
appointment or to cancel
– Options to add appointment to e-calendar
• Informational or fun texts– New service, new hours, new provider
– Birthday
• Marketing patient portals
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Questions?
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CAPACITY AND DEMAND
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Capacity and DemandCapacity
• Number of clinician FTEs
• Clinical hours available to provide services
• Average clinician time per client visit
• Number of exam rooms, equipment
• Other: staff roles and responsibilities, workflow, paperwork, EHR
Demand
• Client requests for services
• Type of services requested
• Variation by month, day, hour
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Measuring “True” Client Demand
• Track on a daily basis:
– Number of calls/requests for appointments
– Number of referred for an appointment
– Number of walk-ins
– Follow-up visits booked on the day
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Best Practices – Shape Capacity
• Staff start and end time
• Lunch breaks
• Staggered staff schedules
• Add provider time during “peak” hours
• Re-align staff roles and responsibilities
• Nursing standing orders
• Team-based care models of care
• Staff operate at top of license
• Pre-visit planning or team huddles
• Ensure all needed equipment in every exam room (e.g., “LARC Exam Room Ready”)
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Best Practices – Shape Demand
• Triage
• Fast track, Quick Start
• Revisit or follow-up visit policies
• “Virtual visit” by phone call or email
• Hours of operation
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APPOINTMENT SYSTEMS
Performance Measures and Monitoring
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Performance Metrics
• Third next available appointment
• Average appointment no show rates
• Office visit cycle time
– Majority of time spent in clinic should be in face to face contact with a staff member
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Performance Monitoring
• Supply - clinician hours available
• Appointments available
• Appointments booked
• Request for services by type
• Appointment no show rates
• Walk-ins
• By month, day, hour of the day (trends are predictable)
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APPOINTMENT TEMPLATE
Agency/Site Reflection, Review and CQI
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Day of the Week: MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT
Clinic Start Time: ___________ and End Time: _________
1st Staff Start Time: _________ and Last Staff End Time: __________
Total Hours of Clinic Session: _________
Hours of Clinician Time Available During the Clinic Session: ____________
Total Number of Visits Needed on This Day to Achieve Unduplicated User Goal: _______
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# Appointment
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# Appointments
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# Appointments
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# Walk-ins No Show
Rate/Hour*
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10-11am
11-12pm
12-1pm
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Review – Guiding Questions• What do you notice about appointment
intervals and schedule framework being used?
– Single, Multiple Interval?
– Block, Stream, Wave, Modified Wave, Something else?
– Carve Outs - When? Why?
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Review – Guiding Questions• What do you notice about appointment no
show rates?
– By day or hour?
– If no show rates are particularly high during a given hour are there opportunities to insert an appointment slot that can be saved for same-day services?
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Review – Guiding Questions• What do you notice about distribution of
appointments and visits throughout the day?
– When is the first and last appointment time? How does it correspond to when the site opens and closes?
– How many clients are scheduled or being seen in the last 2 hours of the day, last hour of the day, or the first hour of the day? Is this time being maximized?
– Are there “clumps” of client visits during specific time periods?
– Are there opportunities to distribute appointment slots more evenly throughout the day?
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Review – Guiding Questions• What best practices could be incorporated into the
design and implementation of appointment schedule moving forward to increase access?
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“Each System is designed perfectly to get the results that
it gets.”
W. Edward Deming
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Questions?
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Thank you!
Dawn MiddletonVice President of Performance Management
and CQI at [email protected]
For further information about technical assistance contact Lucy Paez Stelzner