Six Metrics That a Top Hospital Addressed to Attract New OR Cases

In this encore presentation of LiveData’s seminar at the OR Manager Conference, LiveData Clinical Support Specialist Jeffrey Oliver, Lt. Col, Ret., CCNS, CNOR, will explain how a medical center in the southeastern US increased their OR throughput after widespread pandemic slowdowns.

By deploying analytics-driven insights, the hospital found where workflow updates would most impact OR capacity. While the medical center was able to increase capacity to schedule more patients and eliminate wait times, this led to a new challenge: with over a dozen hospitals and ASCs nearby, local practices held out for visible scheduling improvements before filling the hospital’s newly-created capacity.

This condensed session will explain in detail how focusing on six metrics was the most effective way for the hospital to attract new cases, resulting in a 6% growth in case volume.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand why six metrics had an outsized impact on OR capacity.
2. Identify practical analytic methods to track these six key indicators.
3. Summarize how a comprehensive OR scheduling policy and governance structure can address the six key metrics at an institutional and individual level.

Speakers:

Jeffrey Oliver, Lt Col, Ret.

Jeffrey Oliver, Lt Col, Ret., is a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CCNS) and certified perioperative nurse (CNOR). He has over 30 years of nursing experience and has served in various nursing roles throughout his career. He was commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1995. He was deployed three times during his twenty-five-year career. In his last assignment, Jeff was assigned as faculty at the Uniformed Services University Graduate School of Nursing and served as the Perioperative Nursing Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General. He retired from the Air Force in March of 2021 and served as the Director of Surgical Services at a community hospital in South Carolina. He is currently a Clinical Support Specialist with LiveData.