SUNY Upstate Medical University Increased Weekly OR Case Volume by 3.4%
Syracuse, New York-based SUNY Upstate Medical University, the only academic medical center in central New York, focuses on improving the health of the community through education, biomedical research, and healthcare. As the region’s largest employer with almost 10,000 employees, SUNY Upstate Medical University serves 1.8 million people stretching north to Canada and south to Pennsylvania […]
Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville Increased Robot Utilization by 45%
Baptist Health is a nonprofit, mission-driven healthcare system in the greater Jacksonville, Florida area. The system includes five Magnet-designated hospitals with 74 operating rooms and 14 endoscopy suites. Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville is the flagship hospital, with 513 beds, 4,849 team members, and 18,529 surgeries performed annually.
Using an innovative approach to address critical staffing challenges in operating rooms (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review in February 2022. Reports from the front lines of hospital perioperative departments show a daily, ongoing staffing crisis. Short-handed nurses and other personnel are strained to handle the unpredictable capacity demands of their service lines. These critical shortages of both contracted and full-time staff are driving a cycle that increases costs […]
Centralized surgical scheduling: an innovative model to streamline health systems, address case backlogs
In the wake of COVID-19 surges, many hospital leaders are struggling to work through an extensive backlog of cases with limited operating rooms (ORs) and staff available. Certain staff, such as often-undervalued and underestimated perioperative schedulers, are especially stretched since their work requires aligning the needs of patients, surgeons, and others across multiple locations and resources. […]
Webinar Writeup: Doing more with less – WakeMed’s experience with optimizing operating room capacity
At the Winter 2021 LeanTaaS Transform Hospital Operations Summit, Jon Peterson, Business Manager of Perioperative Services at WakeMed Health, and Ashley Walsh, Vice President, Client Services – iQueue for Operating Rooms and Inpatient Beds, discussed how giving staff and physicians full data transparency enabled them to promote optimal operating room utilization and inpatient capacity. See the full conversation […]
Rush University Medical Center Increased Room Utilization by 3%
Located in downtown Chicago, Rush University Medical Center is a nationally ranked hospital with 11 ORs that performs about 30,000 surgeries a year. Rush University Medical Center is ranked as one of the top US hospitals, and has 11 top ranked clinic programs, including three of the best in the state of Illinois.
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 […]
Today’s surgery scheduling technology can address OR staffing challenges
Ongoing healthcare staffing shortages have critically impacted both inpatient and infusion spaces. Technology has helped support and optimize staff in these settings and can address operating room staffing challenges as well, especially via effective surgery scheduling. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, perioperative nurse leaders and administrators already struggled to recruit and retain qualified healthcare workers to accommodate unpredictable surgery […]
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 […]