UMC El Paso Increased Case Minutes by 19% per OR
University Medical Center of El Paso is a not-for-profit, 394 bed-community hospital in El Paso, Texas. With 11 operating rooms and one trauma room, the hospital provides the only Level 1 trauma center and Level 1 stroke center in the El Paso region. UMC El Paso also serves as a teaching institution in partnership with […]
Webinar Writeup: Improving operating room efficiency in University of Cincinnati Health’s OR – Three simple steps
In June 2020, University of Cincinnati Health’s Director of Transformation Tyler French and Perioperative Supervisor of OR Scheduling Julie Kirby joined LeanTaaS Implementation Specialist Alyssa Trocchio to share how the health system managed the cultural changes required to improve operating room efficiency and capacity management and leveraged iQueue for Operating Rooms to reach their desired capacity management […]
Maximizing operating rooms during the end-of-year elective case rush
Elective surgery case volume trends up and down during the calendar year, and typically follows similar patterns for smaller facilities and large hospital systems. Assessment of an operating room’s utilization throughout all four quarters reveals peaks and valleys of demand. Many pediatric and adult non-urgent, elective procedures often increase during the typical vacation and traveling […]
Improving OR access and visibility: Five myths, five best practices, and the importance of surgical scheduling software
Managing operating room capacity, without the support of analytics-based surgical scheduling software, is a constant challenge. Perioperative clinicians and staff are frustrated by the empty ORs and idle equipment that result from suboptimal scheduling processes and inadequate capacity metrics. While OR managers and schedulers work tirelessly to allocate surgeon time and make the most of […]
Hospital-surgeon data transparency delivers surgeon satisfaction and hospital ROI
Hospitals across the country have been increasingly adopting technology to proactively optimize surgical capacity. By leveraging technologies to improve the accessibility, accountability and visibility of operating room time, hospitals that have implemented LeanTaaS’ iQueue for Operating Rooms have achieved impressive results including increased primetime utilization (6 percentage points, on average), increased block utilization, hospital-surgeon data transparency […]
5 solutions to maximize your OR capacity
Operating Rooms (ORs) are the economic backbone of nearly every healthcare system, and OR utilization is a key metric. It’s a perishable commodity that trades in time, and once time comes and goes, it’s an opportunity forever lost. Too many times, ORs sit unused, for a variety of reasons, ranging from the early completion of […]
“No block left behind” in operating rooms
Operating Rooms are the economic backbone of a hospital, often generating more than 50 percent of revenues and profits for the institution. A single block of Operating Room time (~500 minutes) can generate $50K – $100K+ in revenue per day, depending on the payor and case mix. ORs are also the most expensive resource to […]
Making the invisible visible: optimizing operating room access
An earlier version of this article originally appeared on Health IT News. Accessing operating rooms (ORs) has been a cumbersome, manual process often managed by history and instinct. However, today’s environment requires lean, agile, and visible access into this expensive and complex hospital resource. Flexing OR access up and down, maximizing use of open time and […]
MultiCare Reclaimed 20+ Blocks per Quarter and Millions of Dollars in Block Time
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization caring for the Washington State community for well over a century. Consistently ranked as one of the nation’s Most Wired health care organizations by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, MultiCare is committed to providing outstanding care to residents of the Pacific Northwest through its robust network of hospitals […]
Parkview Medical Center Built a 21-day Average Block Release Lead Time
Parkview Medical Center is a community hospital based in Pueblo, Colorado, offering general acute healthcare and behavioral health specialty services. As a private, non-profit organization, Parkview is licensed for 350 beds and provides a full range of healthcare services. With both a Level II Trauma Center and Stroke Center, Parkview covers Pueblo County and 14 […]