Description
Upgrading your surgical suite’s equipment, adding new technology, or updating specific processes can all contribute to performance improvement.
These sessions from OR Business Management Conference, will show you how taking a new approach or investing in your department can help the overall performance in the surgical suite and increase profitability.
Reducing Staffing Costs by Decreasing Minutes in the Workday
Learning Objectives:
• Discuss the financial impact of OR inefficiency.
• Identify critical timestamps for room turnover in the OR.
• Describe how to create delay reports to generate actionable data.
Take-home tool: Template with critical timestamps to be captured for room turnover. Handout of analytics tool with
adjustable goal setting.
Speakers:
• Stephanie R. Landmesser, MSN, RN, CNOR, CCNS, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
• Monica Young, Vice President Perioperative Services, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
How to Pivot and Save Millions on Vendor Contracts
Learning Objectives:
• Chart your inventory usage rates and develop a cost savings strategy.
• Create an inventory reallocation plan to move product from low usage to high usage facilities.
• Learn how to use data to drive decision-making of where to reallocate inventory.
Take-home tool: Operational model using team synergy, a new approach to save millions of dollars.
Speakers:
• Dusty Clegg, MSN, RN, Operations Officer, Surgical Operations, Intermountain Healthcare
• Larissa Jimerson, RN, BSN, Clinical Operations Manager, Intermountain Healthcare
• John Sturzenegger, Continuous Improvement Manager, Supply Chain, Intermountain Healthcare
Managing Rising Labor Costs to Cope with the Ongoing Staffing Crisis
Learning Objectives:
• Learn how to develop creative staffing models to maximize OR capacity.
• Develop a schedule of options for on-call associates and understand how late you could run cases.
• Learn how to maximize staffing without hurting the budget.
Speakers:
• Amanda Brown, MS, RN, PCNS-BC, CNS-CP, CNOR, Nurse Professional Development Specialist, Lutheran Medical Center, Intermountain Health
• Deborah Hedrick, MA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, Director, Perioperative Services, Lutheran Medical Center, Intermountain Health
A Roadmap for Service Line Consolidation: Staying Between the Lines
Learning Objectives:
• Understand best practices for surgical service line consolidation.
• Explore the project planning tools used to plan and track the work.
• Learn how to achieve results on time and within budget.
Take-home tool:
• Service line relocation checklist
• Gantt chart template
• Equipment and instrument checklist
Speakers:
• Natalie Bright, MBA, MSN, RN, CNOR, Department Administrator for Enterprise Surgical Operations, Cleveland Clinic
• Teri Masters, Project Manager Enterprise Surgical Operations, Cleveland Clinic
• Wendy Simmons, MSN, RN, Director of Ambulatory Surgical Nursing, Cleveland Clinic
