Do You Experience any of these issues?
- Significant number / percent of urgent / emergent high acuity cases requiring rapid access to the OR
- Surgeons report difficulties in accessing the OR for urgent/emergent cases
- Significant number/percent of urgent/emergent cases done after prime time hours
- Significant moving, bumping and delaying of elective cases to accommodate urgent/emergent cases
- High OR staff turnover (representative of OR chaos and staff dissatisfaction)
- Quality Assurance (QA) reports of increased waiting for the OR for urgent/emergent cases resulting in patient or family dissatisfaction or poor patient surgical outcome.
- Inability to grow surgical volume because of perceived OR capacity limitation
The benefits of OR re-engineering can include:
- Shorter waiting times for surgery for emergent and urgent patients
- Reduced or eliminated cancellations and postponement of elective surgeries
- Reduced OR overtime
- Higher OR prime time utilization
- Greater surgical throughput (i.e., increased overall surgical patient volume)
- Reduced cost per surgical case
- Reduced inpatient length of stay for unscheduled surgical patients, leading to reduced rates of hospital-acquired infections and costs
- Improved patient safety and reduced mortality
- Improved patient and provider satisfaction
Results from organizations that have worked with IHO »
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