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How OHSU is Leveraging AI and Change Management to Alleviate Staffing Challenges in the OR

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OR Case Study_Dio Sumagaysay_OHSU
Dio Sumagaysay, RN, MS
Vice President, Perioperative & Multi-specialty Procedural Services, OHSU
OR Case Study_Stacey Leadbeater_LeanTaaS
Stacey Leadbeater
Senior Product Manager, LeanTaaS

Summary

Staffing challenges in the operating room (OR) have presented significant hurdles for health systems across the nation.  Leaders and managers continue to face daunting challenges in matching the supply of OR staff to the unpredictable demands of surgery schedules.  The planning process, often reactive and time-consuming, lacks the proactive approach necessary for optimal outcomes and poor planning can have profound implications for patient care and the efficiency of healthcare delivery. 

Join us to see how OHSU leverages strategic staffing insights and automated workflows to optimize staff planning and transform OR staffing practices. Discover actionable strategies to enhance efficiency, improve resource allocation, and empower nurse leaders to navigate the future of OR staffing with confidence and foresight.

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Chapter 1: The Looming Challenge

If you work in the healthcare industry, or even if you’re just an interested observer, you don’t need a book to tell you that the financial pressure is on as never before. A perfect storm of circumstances is swirling together, one that will make survivability, not to mention profitability, a greater challenge for healthcare companies than we’ve seen in the modern era.

As with banks, retailers, and airlines, which had to rapidly enhance their brick-and-mortar footprints with robust online business models—it is the early movers eager to gain new efficiencies that will thrive and gain market share. The slow-to-move and the inefficient will end up being consolidated into larger health systems seeking to expand their geographical footprints.

The pressures on healthcare

Let’s look at just a few of the looming challenges healthcare must meet head-on.

An aging population

By the year 2030, the number of adults sixty-five years of age or older will exceed the number of children eighteen years or younger in the United States. We are living longer than our parents did. Positive news for sure, but problematic for several reasons.

The older we get, the more medical help we need. Older people have more chronic diseases. By 2025, nearly 50 percent of the population will suffer from one or more chronic diseases that will require ongoing medical intervention. This combination of an aging population and an increase in chronic diseases will create a ballooning demand for healthcare services.

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