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Strategic Perioperative Growth: RUSH University System for Health’s Surgeon-Centric Approach to Case Volume Increase & Service Line Success

Speakers

Sam Davis RUSH
Sam Davis, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, CNOR
AVP of Perioperative & Interventional Clinical Services, RUSH University Medical Center
Rose Andron_RUSH
Rose Andron, RN, MSN, CNML
Director of Perioperative Services,RUSH University Medical Center

Summary

As health systems navigate increasing surgical demand and financial pressures, hospitals must optimize operating room (OR) utilization and align case volumes across inpatient and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) settings to achieve strategic growth and financial sustainability. This presentation showcases RUSH’s transformative approach to: right-sizing block allocation, driving surgeon engagement and excitement, optimizing OR access, and strategically leveraging ASCs to align case complexity with the appropriate surgical setting.

Sam Davis and Rose Andron will demonstrate how leveraging data-driven strategies and collaborative stakeholder engagement can overcome longstanding OR challenges. They will share insights on implementing a roadmap for OR optimization and strategic block allocation, ensuring OR time is aligned with high-growth service lines, evolving surgical trends, and financial performance metrics across multiple surgical sites.

Key Results Achieved:

  • 5% increase in surgical volume
  • 8% increase in case minutes
  • 4% increase in primetime OR utilization
  • 12% increase in surgeon block utilization

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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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