Several recent publications
have described strategies for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers
to improve their operational health—their profitability, to be blunt.
Anesthesiologists are well aware of the role that they can play in O.R.
management and of the need to assume O.R. leadership responsibilities in
order to remain competitive. There are some valuable ideas to be
gleaned from articles and presentations directed to O.R. managers.
Anesthesiologists can take charge of most, if not all, of the processes
described below.
Many ways to improve O.R.
efficiency are already familiar. The value of on-time starts, fast
turnover times and block scheduling, to name but a few such ways, is a
given. Jeffry Peters’s February 28, 2013 webinar hosted by Becker’s
Healthcare and entitled Managing Surgical Services Lines under Accountable Care and Value-Based Purchasing
identified some additional operational changes that would help
hospitals obtain a “sustainable competitive advantage.” Peters is the
president and CEO...
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