OR Throughput Evaluation
Consulting Services | Clinical Operations | OR Throughput EvaluationFinding methods of delivering high-quality surgical services, while controlling costs and maximizing reimbursement, can be challenging for any hospital or ambulatory center.
Here’s how QHR can help.
QHR can help you identify and improve the bottlenecks in your OR processes – positioning you to serve more patients, improve quality, satisfy surgeons and clinical staff, and drive revenue.
We conduct a thorough evaluation of your operating room, post anesthesia care unit, ambulatory surgery and endoscopy suite processes, focusing on revenue enhancement opportunities, surgical throughput, resource utilization and performance monitoring.
QHR’s experts:
- Observe daily operations as they pertain to efficiency of surgeons, anesthesia and staff
- Evaluate existing processes for anesthesia scheduling and clinical practices
- Review departmental charts for documentation, coding and charge accuracy
- Evaluate all phases of surgical throughput, including patient access/registration, pre-admission testing, case scheduling and room utilization
- Utilize surgical data to evaluate existing case scheduling methods, room and surgeon utilization, staffing and hours of operation
- Track patients through a day of surgery to determine on-time delivery and efficiency
- Evaluate the materials and supplies procurement process and perform a sterile process review
- Evaluate physician and staff satisfaction as it pertains to personal interaction, department operations, scheduling practices, anesthesia and leadership
Your QHR OR Throughput Assessment is designed to support:
- Improved surgical documentation and charge capture to increase reimbursement
- Improved patient access through improvements to preadmission testing processes
- Improved surgeon productivity through a redesign of the surgical scheduling process
- Improved surgical efficiencies through the revaluation of anesthesia contracts
- Improved patient satisfaction through the creation of a common vision statement committing to on-time delivery of services
- A commitment to the ongoing efficiency and effectiveness of OR operations
