OR Overhaul 2009: Cutting Edge Efficiency and Alignment Strategies

OR Overhaul 2009: Cutting Edge Efficiency and Alignment Strategies

Webcast Presented on September 28, 2009

Sponsored by Service Lines Strategies Virtual Workshop

Dedicating a surgeon and OR suite to emergency services is one strategy hospitals can use to make the surgical services department more profitable, efficient, and aligned for the future.

Learn from HealthLeaders Media's 90-minute webcast, where our experts provide senior hospital leaders actionable solutions on how to:

• Appoint a dedicated ED surgeon who can improve patient flow through the OR, decrease length of stay, and improve quality.
• Create a dedicated OR suite that can relieve ED overcrowding, improve efficiency, and increase profits.
• Maximize the utilization of block scheduling.
• Coordinate care across multiple specialties: balancing emergent and elective care.
• Understand fundamental efficiency goals such as on-time starts and rapid room turnaround.

PROGRAM AGENDA

1. State of the surgical services: What are the biggest challenges today?
2. Improvement strategies
   1. Workflow best practices
      1. Block scheduling
      2. OR turnaround times
      3. On-time starts
      4. Motivate entire surgical team, including physicians
   2. Dedicated emergency surgeon
      1. Increase throughput
      2. Decrease length of stay
      3. Improve quality of care
      4. Create physician champions
   3. Dedicated emergency OR Suite
      1. Alleviate hospital overcrowding
      2. Keep elective procedures on schedule
      3. Increase number of cases
   4. Organizational Structure
      1. Elective procedures: coordinating care across multiple specialties
      2. Perioperative as a service line
      3. Physician involvement in OR governance
   5. Assessing future surgical services needs
      1. Technology
      2. Infrastructure
3. Q&A

SPEAKERS

John Maa, MD, FACS is currently an assistant professor in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and assistant chair of the Department of Surgery's Quality Improvement Program.  Dr. Maa is a member of the board of directors of the American Heart Association, and Associate Director of Surgery Clerkship at UCSF. He participates on several advisory boards and committees that focus on improving care in hospitals.

James Lewis, MD, FACOG is a member of the Innovations and Advanced Technology group within Kaiser Permanente's national information technology division of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Dr. Lewis is the leader of the Operating Room of the Future initiative for Kaiser Permanente's National Facilities Services, Information Technology, and Clinical Technology divisions. He is the clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School. He is also the former chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, CA. He is currently overseeing multidisciplinary simulated surgical workflow trials at the Sidney R Garfield Healthcare Innovation Center.

Kevin M. Kennedy, is a principal in Seattle-WA-based ECG Management Consultants, Inc.'s Healthcare practice. Kennedy's practice focuses on strategy, operations, and organizational design for hospitals, health systems, and integrated delivery networks.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

CEO, COO, CNO, CFO, CIO, Chief Medical Officer, OR director, OR administrator, OR medical directors

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