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Driving Surgical Services and the Tertiary Growth Engine
Surgical services continues to be a key growth focus for health systems--fueling about half of a hospital’s total revenue today and forecasts for continued growth ahead.
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Demystifying Length of Stay Projects
When educating healthcare executives to lead high-occupancy organizations, one of the fundamental outcomes-based measures to monitor is Length of Stay (“LOS”).
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GE Healthcare Included in Fast Company's "Top 10 Innovative Companies in Health"
GE Healthcare is featured as one of Fast Company's Top 10 Innovative Companies in Health of 2017.
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Results
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Perioperative Services Transformation
Here's a quick look at some of the outcomes we've achieved in perioperative services.
Using Simulation Technology to Optimize Care Delivery
University of Texas Medical Branch
University of Texas Medical Branch wanted to open a new hospital with inpatient units twice the size of their current layout. Using simulation technology to test a range of future-state workflow scenarios gave UTMB the hard data they needed for decisions affecting the cost, quality, and efficiency of care to enable them to modify care delivery processes for the much larger space.
Freed Up OR Capacity for 750 Additional Cases Per Year
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
An initiative at this teaching hospital to improve capacity management, better manage patient length of stay, and enhance staff satisfaction freed up OR capacity for 750 additional cases per year, while shuttering two rooms, increased utilization of the OR block schedule by 22 percent, and reduced bed request to assignment time by 42 percent.
Expanded Capacity for 620 More Surgical Procedures Per Year
University of Texas Medical Branch
The University of Texas Medical Branch was able to expand OR capacity by optimizing scheduling practices and governance which reed up 45 hours a week. This translated to capacity for 620 additional surgical procedures annually – without extending hours or opening new rooms.
Using Simulation Modeling to Right-Size and Boost Efficiency
Central Iowa Healthcare
Central Iowa Healthcare (CIH) decided to build a new hospital and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and worked with GE Healthcare Partners to help design both facilities to optimize the patient experience while maximizing operational efficiency. This included the application of our robust, proprietary simulation modeling to test different design strategies.
Perioperative Growth Through Capacity Optimization
Central Maine Medical Center
With an OR schedule that was 95 percent blocked, this hospital could not add surgeons to meet growing demand. Yet the OR suites were being utilized less than half the time. By reconfiguring block scheduling and creating strict governance policies, 100 hours per week of capacity were freed up, and utilization rose to 61 percent.
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5 Things to Get Right in Your Hospital Command Center
Command centers are happening in healthcare. But how to design your command center? How much to budget? How will it pay for itself? What IT is needed?
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Population Health Management, Financial Operations and Transactions, S... / Blog Post
10 Characteristics of High-Performing Healthcare Organizations
We have observed consistent and common characteristics or attributes among the leaders and many of the employees who work in the highest performing organizations.
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Care Coordination Best Practices: The Right Care At The Right Time
Care coordination becomes critically important as the acuity of patients increases, and hospitals face financial challenges as a result of readmission penalties, declining reimbursement and ...
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In Command: The Rise of Command Centers in Healthcare
Command centers are commonplace in many industries such as aviation and oil and gas. They’ve been a rarity within the healthcare industry, but this is quickly changing.
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Humber River Hospital Breaks New Ground with the Opening of Canada’s First Hospital Command Centre
Humber River Hospital opens Canada’s first hospital Command Centre built in collaboration with GE Healthcare Partners addressing capacity, safety, quality, and wait time issues that have pre...
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Humber River Hospital Opening State-of-the-Art Command Center
Humber River Hospital prepares to open its state-of-the-art Command Center November 30th, 2017, in Toronto.
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