Helicon Consulting, Inc. is a healthcare facility-planning firm founded on the principle that investments in facilities should contribute to the successful realization of the organization's strategic plan. The strategic opportunities that can be maximized from well-planned space include the following:

Achieve operational efficiency - improve room throughput; increase staff productivity; reduce operation cost. Enhance care delivery - introduce new technologies and practice patterns; cluster collaborating services; increase availabe capacity. Improve customer service - improve access; reduce patient transfers and movement; enrich the environment; incorporate family spaces. Improve market share - increase patient volumes; reduce patient or procedure out-migration; provide content for "word of mouth" acvertising.

Organization-wide planning - strategic, as well as information system, marketing, and finance - is incorporated into all facility plans, whether global in scope or specific to a single department. Based in North Carolina, Helicon Consulting has clients located through out the South, Midwest and eastern seaboard, including rural and urban community hospitals, tertiary medical centers, academic medical centers, and healthcare systems. On-going and long-standing associations with numerous clients demonstrate client satisfaction.

e-mail us at: HeliconConsulting@earthlink.net _____ * Mount Helicon was the home of the nine daughters of Zeus who presided over the arts and sciences.

HELICON CONSULTING, INC. 4905 Montvale Drive Durham, North Carolina 27705 919.824.6489 jstrauman@heliconconsulting.org HELICON CONSULTING is certified a Women's Business Enterprise and a National Council Member.

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