Beyond bucks: Best ideas for recognizing staff

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Abstract: Amid staffing challenges faced throughout the health system in the first half of 2022, Gundersen’s perioperative department further experienced capacity constraints and lacked access to real-time visibility into key data to make actionable decisions.  To address these challenges,  the organization launched an AI-based solution to provide visible data and tools to right-size block allocation, repurpose unused time, and streamline the scheduling process. 

Join Gundersen’s Clinical Operations Director to hear how forming a true partnership with a proven industry technology team to achieve operational excellence through the use of predictive and prescriptive analytics has now empowered leaders to make better informed decisions.  Key results include: 

• 8% increase in prime time utilization
• 9% increase in staffed room utilization
• 8% increase in block utilization
• 14% increase in prime time robot utilization
• 76% increase in manually released minutes

Learning objectives

• Describe the specific operational issues that prevent effective surgical block utilization.
• Identify levers to release open time and improve availability.
• Understand the impact of visible, accurate, and accessible data on leaders, surgeons, and scheduler functions.

Speaker:

Leah Schild Clinical Operations Director Surgery & Procedures, Integrated Platform, Department of Anesthesiology Gundersen Health System

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When you optimize the process for scheduling surgical cases, the OR runs more efficiently, surgeons can practice at the top of their license and the OR can accommodate more cases, allowing patients to get their surgeries done sooner.

In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of scheduling and keeping surgeons satisfied from the hospital perspective, tips for how to do that, and innovative approaches to make scheduling surgical cases easier on the surgeons, schedulers, and patients.

Learning Objectives:

• Discover the five keys to surgeon satisfaction and how that ties back to OR efficiency and improved patient outcomes.

• Identify the different requirements of employed and independent surgeons and how that impacts scheduling their cases.

• Understand how to optimize the scheduling process leading to improve surgeon satisfaction.

Speakers:

Matt Churchill Chief Operating Officer LiveData	Aileen Killen, PhD, RN Director of Perioperative Excellence LiveData

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Abstract:

As a hospital leader, it is indeed frustrating for you and/or your perioperative leadership to have  difficult conversations with surgeons about block allocation and utilization, particularly when the data isn’t defensible and when surgeons can take their cases elsewhere. It is also challenging to decide how much time and flexibility you can afford to give new surgeons to grow their practice without tying up potentially underutilized time.

How can your organization establish a more effective, less stressful program for managing and optimizing your operating room schedule- particularly given today’s challenging environment of constrained nursing and anesthesia resources?

Join The University of Kansas Health System’s (TUKHS) Senior Director of Business Operations, Perioperative and Procedural Services to learn about creating an Effective Block Management System and learn how TUKHS was able to, in less than a year’s time, achieve a 20% increase in block utilization, 5% increase in prime time utilization and facilitate 98% more manual releases/transfers of time before the auto-release deadlines.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the characteristics of an effective block management system.
• Identify ways to break through historical barriers and confidently make quicker block allocation decisions.
• Explain why, even after a significant EHR investment, hospitals still need to invest in data management systems, particularly for the operating room.

Speakers:

Megan Eubanks, MBA Senior Director of Business Operations, Perioperative and Procedural Services The University of Kansas Health System	Ashley Walsh, MHA Vice President Client Services, iQueue for Operating Rooms and Inpatient Beds LeanTaaS

 Critical Components of Optimized OR Performance: Credible Data and an Effective Surgery Block Management System
Wednesday, December 14 2022 | 2:00 PM ET
1 CE Credit

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Abstract

Operating Room risk factors require education about and protection from sharp injuries as well as physical, chemical and biological insults. Evidence, professional recommendations and statistics outline these risks and offer solutions. Content will outline protocols and implementation suggestions.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the impact of occupational exposure on healthcare workers today
• Describe the ECRI method of product review
• Identify the benefits of Double Gloving in the OR

Speakers:

Deborah L. Spratt, RN, BSN, MPA, CNOR, NEA-BC CRCST CHL	Lorrie Calabrese, RN, BSN, CNOR Senior Clinical Specialist Molnlycke

Culture of Safety: Sharps Safety
Tuesday, December 6, 2022 | 12:00 PM ET
1 CE Credit

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Abstract

As an OR leader, you’re facing overwhelming challenges due to staffing shortages, pent-up demand for OR time, and financial pressures. What new strategies can you use to rapidly optimize existing resources while simultaneously preventing burnout?

During this webinar, discover how Allina Health uses AI-powered automation software to simplify the OR scheduling process, re-energize staff and rapidly boost OR & block utilization. By automating manual OR processes, the health system rapidly increased OR access for surgeons, improved utilization, and grew strategic case volumes — delivering millions to the bottom line.

Learning Objectives:

• Add 2+ cases per OR per month and grow robotic cases by 50%
• Increase case volume by up to 10%
• Reduce manual work and boost staff satisfaction
• Create more predictability for staff schedules and decrease late-running cases

Speakers:

Whitney A. Johnson, RN, MHA, Director of Surgical Services & The Center for Advanced Endoscopy, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, a part of Allina Health	Derek Fine, Customer Success, Qventus

How to Rapidly Boost Your OR Utilization and Re-energize Staff: Allina Health’s Strategic Partnership Using AI & Automation
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | 1:00 pm CST
1 CE Credit

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Abstract

Disruption to the OR schedule is far too common.  Attempts to fix issues come at a high cost (overnighting supplies, staff overtime). These disruptions frustrate staff, impact patient care, and cut into profit margins.

When you are able to streamline operational planning for cases through automation, you can minimize day-of impacts, maximize efficiency and reduce scheduling conflicts. Provide OR leadership with ample time to proactively resolve problems related to staffing, equipment, supplies, case length and patient readiness (including some issues you may have not otherwise been aware of).

In this session, learn how perioperative readiness helps run your surgical day as planned, giving you enough time to proactively and economically address barriers and optimize OR operational efficiency.

Learning objectives 

• Learn how to automate surgical case planning to run cases more efficiently and run the surgical day as planned
• Anticipate and identify operational issues with staffing, equipment, supplies, case planning and patient readiness ahead of time
• Discover effective ways to streamline communication and overcome operational scheduling barriers

Presenter:

Shawn Sefton, MBA, BSN, RN CNO & VP, Clinical Solutions Hospital IQ

Perioperative Readiness to Optimize the Surgical Schedule
Thursday, November 10, 2022 | 1:00PM ET
1 CE Credit