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Do You Experience any of these issues?

  • Long waiting times for Cath Lab patients needing emergent or urgent procedures
  • Cancellation or postponement of elective procedures
  • High Cath Lab overtime
  • Poor Cath Lab utilization
  • Minimal throughput (i.e., Low Cath Lab patient volume)
  • High cost per procedure
  • Poor access to telemetry beds
  • Low patient and provider satisfaction score

The benefits of Cath Lab redesign can include:

  • Reduction in waiting times for placement in an inpatient bed for elective Cath Lab patients thereby reducing overall hospital LOS
  • Increase in percentage of patients placed in the preferred unit based on their condition
  • Improving access to telemetry beds
  • Additional increases in Cath Lab procedure throughput
  • Additional decreases in Cath Lab overtime
  • Reduction in refusals of transfers requiring Cath Lab access
  • Improvements in inpatient quality of care and patient safety
  • Greater patient and provider satisfaction

Results from organizations that have worked with IHO »

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