Critical to maintaining a financially viable and marketable surgery pro-gram is the operation of an effective and efficient surgical program. At least seven key pro-gram elements dramati-cally impact surgical program marketability and success.
"Our surgeons wanted to develop their own ASC until Ippolito and his team showed us that a community hospital OR can be as efficient as a surgery center. Surgeon satisfaction improved and the surgeons continued to support the hospital."
Chief Nursing Officer - rural Midwestern community hospital Read other client comments
The design of a perioperative facility can either contribute to operating room efficiency or challenge the cost-effective delivery of surgical care. A well-designed operating room suite requires emphasis on patient, material, and staffing flows as well as the integration of support resources. Operating room design and capacity requirements must consider future growth, market expansion and surgical discipline-specific facility requirements.
Inadequate operating room design can result in:
Unnecessarily high staffing levels
Inefficient use of surgeons' time
Decreased patient, surgeon, and anesthesiologist satisfaction
Poor inventory control
Increased costs of operation
Decreased marketability to patients and surgeons
Increased anesthesiology staffing costs and potential need for stipends
The OR Efficiencies can assist you by working with your architect and clinicians to:
Perform surgical specialty-specific case volume demand analyses
Forecast new business potential and OR capacity requirements
Identify space and function requirements for renovated or replacement facilities
Consult with your architects during the design-development phase
Interpret architectural drawings to clinical stakeholders
Prepare "operating manuals" that outline the optimum flow of patients and materials in the new facility and define processes to maximize the benefits of the new space.
End-To-End Ambulatory Surgery Development & Management
Over the past two decades surgery has become vastly outpatient based. For most hospital's surgical programs at least seventy percent of all surgery performed is outpatient surgery. On average at least seventy percent of outpatients are candidates to have their procedures performed in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
Ambulatory Surgery Program
Succession Planning for the Operating Room
Providing assistance in succession planning for the Operating Room.
OR Efficiencies provides the tools and assistance to plan the management succession for your operating room. Our process identifies key roles, the management capabilities of existing staff, and cultivates qualified internal candidates to become superior leaders for tomorrow's perioperative environment.
Succession Planning Details
The Challenge of Physician Recruitment
Physician Recruitment & Medical Staff Development By OR Efficiencies
One of the greatest challenges for hospitals wanting to increase market share is the ability to recruit and retain physicians with the skills, training and personality to attract patients and develop their confidence. Patients expect your hospital to have specialists that are comfort-able performing procedures in a minimally invasive manner. Physician Recruitment
