our story

AHEAD Healthcare Consulting, Perioperative Consulting

Are you ready to improve your anesthesia and perioperative services?

Emory Medical School

Emory Anesthesiology Residency

Chief Resident with cardiac subspecialty 

Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School

Professor & Chairman, Department of      Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at Georgia Regents University (GRU)

Director Perioperative Service Line for Health System at GRU

Medical Director Respiratory Care Services (MGH & GRU)

Two US & International patents

Past President, Academy of Anesthesiology

Past Chair, American Medical Association's Council on Science and Public Health

Perioperative Managment & Design 

understanding the numbers

Perioperative services data is often available. However, understanding if the data presented to you is accurate and applicable for decision making can be daunting.  Let us work with you to make sure you make the best decision for your future.  Our experience in patient throughput analysis will save you time and money, in addition to keeping you compliant and enabling further growth!

Al Head, MD

president

Finding the right pathway

We all have an idea of how to best reach our goal.  However, if everyone on the team is not striving in the same direction, the expected outcome will not be reached.

Let us help you organize an effective team in perioperative consulting that will get your  desired results.  

Revenue

Manpower

Quality Management

Our experienced patient focused team works with you to optimize patient care

After 20 years of experience as a practicing physician and 11 years serving as an academic department chairman and a director of a perioperative service line for a health system, it became obvious to me that our current healthcare system is not substainable without significant changes. Reimbursements are declining, while quality measures and regulatory services are increasing.  As we face these changes in healthcare, we must transform ourselves into a viable team with coordinated efforts between administrators, healthcare staff and physicians.  We must change the silo mentality that lives in today's medical culture and realize that we need to restructure our teams into cooperative partnerships focused on integrated patient-centered care.  It is essential to maintain a patient-physician relationship as the core of our healthcare system for patient satisfaction.   However, busy hospital executives and physicians need guidance to help them work through our dynamically changing healthcare environment.  We must think "out of the box" to achieve a successful future.  There is no magical healthcare plan that we can all use.  Each institution will have to optimize their own resources available to them to survive.  This is a paradigm and a culture shift from our traditional medical practice.  The status quo will no longer achieve the profits needed to fill gaps and grow. Even maintaining routine services for our patients could be jeopardized if we do not change.  

At our firm, we will listen to your needs, review your resources, and help you customize your institution efficiently and effectively to prepare you for a productive future.