Right Case, Right Place: Optimizing OR Scheduling Across Multiple Hospitals with AI for a 16% Increase in Staffed Room Utilization and 1,600 Incremental Cases

Hospital leaders are increasingly focused on ensuring the “right case in the right place” as they seek to enhance operational efficiency across multiple facilities. Multi-hospital systems face the complex challenge of coordinating surgical demand with operating room (OR) capacity while managing resources effectively. The reliance on outdated, manual block management processes exacerbates these challenges, limiting the ability to optimize OR time and improve patient outcomes.

Join Dr. Wesley Hart, MD, Anesthesiologist at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital, and Chris Hunt, Associate Vice President at MultiCare, as they discuss how MultiCare Health System has leveraged AI to optimize OR scheduling. This presentation will explore how the right technological tools are ensuring the right cases are placed in the right ORs across multiple hospitals, leading to improved resource utilization, surgeon engagement, and system-wide standardization.

Learn how MultiCare’s proactive, data-driven approach to block management and regional scheduling structures has transformed operational decision-making and how these successes can be replicated across other health systems.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the Role of AI in OR Optimization
   Participants will learn how AI-driven tools can be used to match surgical demand with OR capacity, ensuring that the “right case is in the right place” across multiple hospitals within a health system.
2. Identify Strategies for System-Wide Standardization and Efficiency
   Attendees will explore how MultiCare Health System has implemented proactive, data-driven approaches to OR block management and scheduling that have led to increased standardization and operational efficiency across their facilities.
3. Examine the Replication of Success Across Health Systems
   Participants will gain insight into how the scheduling model used at MultiCare can be replicated across different hospital systems, improving OR utilization, surgeon engagement, and overall patient outcomes.
4. Learn About the Integration of Regional Scheduling Structures
   Attendees will understand the benefits of a coordinated, regional scheduling structure that supports multi-hospital systems, ensuring consistent and efficient use of OR resources.