LeanTaaS logo - Home
Request a demo
Resources
Back to Operating Rooms
Transform Webinar

From Quick Wins to Lasting Impact: How OhioHealth Grant Medical Center Boosted OR Utilization and Freed 148,000 Minutes of Surgical Time

Speakers

Copy of OhioHealth_Joel_Shaw
Joel Shaw, MD
Vice President, Clinical Affairs, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center

Summary

At OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, the OR is a hub of constant activity—but like many hospitals, valuable minutes were being lost to unused block time, last-minute cancellations, and disconnected scheduling workflows. Instead of accepting those inefficiencies, the team set out to redesign how surgical time was managed. By combining AI-powered tools, structured governance, and a culture shift toward transparency and shared accountability, the team built a system that’s scalable, data-driven, and surgeon-friendly.

In this session, you’ll hear how Grant turned reactive scheduling into a proactive, data-driven system—and how they’re sustaining results over time.

Learn how their team:

  • Increased block utilization by 3% YoY and freed up 18,100 fewer minutes of unused block time
  • Captured 148,000 additional OR minutes since go-live
  • Backfilled 43% of released time with cases from other surgeons
  • Engaged nearly 1,900 surgeons through smarter workflows and improved visibility

This isn’t just about more minutes, it’s about building trust, efficiency, and a system that works better for everyone in the OR.

Related resources

View all resources

Ready to get started?

Take the first step towards unlocking capacity, generating ROI, and increasing patient access.

Request a demo
Click to access the login or register cheese

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.

Read more