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
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