Results: Surgical Services Assessment and Reengineering
Goals:
- Increase efficiency, patient throughput and both physician and staff satisfaction
- Develop system-wide surgical services plan
- Generate OR backfill plan after volume shift to newly-opened ASC
- Improve staff productivity and utilization of resources
Results:
- Surgical services plan for health system's five OR locations
- Measured improvement in:
- Physician satisfaction
- Turnaround time
- Utilization
- Staff productivity
- Reduced surgical services expenses by almost $300,000 through standardization and improved efficiency
- Surgeon-specific case cart delivery system
