OR Throughput Evaluation

Consulting Services | Clinical Operations | OR Throughput Evaluation

Delays cost you money and loyalty.

When your OR performs poorly, you put your patients’ satisfaction, your surgeons’ productivity and your bottom line’s health at risk. By improving bottlenecks in your OR processes, you can make everyone happy. 

Here’s how QHR can help.

Improve volumes, satisfaction and revenue.

QHR can help you find and resolve the bottlenecks in your OR processes, allowing you to serve more patients, enhance quality, satisfy surgeons and increase your income.

We’ll 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.

Our experts will help your team create a common vision and a decision-making group to implement it. We’ll guide you in improving pre-admission testing, scheduling and surgical metrics with the goal of enhancing surgeon productivity. And we’ll evaluate your anesthesia contract and documentation, in search of financial improvement opportunities.

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QHR’s experts:

  • Observe daily operations as they pertain to efficiency of surgeons, anesthesia and staff
  • Evaluate existing anesthesia scheduling and clinical practices
  • Perform a departmental chart review for correct documentation, coding and charges
  • Evaluate the phases of surgical throughput to include patient access/registration, pre-admission testing, case scheduling and room utilization
  • Examine existing case scheduling methods, room and surgeon utilization, staffing and hours of operation using client surgical data
  • 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
  • On time OR.

    QHR’s surgical experts can help your team deliver better service and better revenue.

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