Perioperative Consulting Services
Overview
In most hospitals, the perioperative department is the highest cost center, but also the department with the highest margin potential. When you need help bringing your surgery program up to best practice standards, Sullivan offers expert, leading-edge, contemporary perioperative services and solutions.
Sullivan’s project teams provide hospitals and health systems with comprehensive perioperative program assessments and recommendations that result in improved operational efficiency and increased income. Request a SHC Operational Quickcheck today or contact us for more information on our perioperative services.
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Improved Perioperative Performance with Customized Solutions
Each project is customized to meet your individual needs. Our perioperative consultants can provide some or all of the following perioperative program assistance. Additionally, Sullivan perioperative consulting experts offer implementation services for any recommendations made.
Best Practice Perioperative Analysis Program
A high-level, broad assessment of the entire perioperative program
Our Best Practice Perioperative Analysis Program is our most requested perioperative service offering and is typically a fast turnaround (often completed in 6-8 weeks). It is characterized by a broad perioperative scope, extensive use of comparative benchmarks and active medical staff involvement.
During your Best Practice Perioperative Program Analysis, our perioperative consulting team will identify opportunities to maximize your perioperative department.
In this assessment, our perioperative consultants typically evaluate:
Governance
Surgery scheduling
Presurgical screening
Service line organization
Patient throughput
Our Perioperative Experts Will Deliver Outstanding Results
Consistently high-quality care
Improved productivity
Improved operating room utilization
More accurate scheduling
Improved schedule access
Reduced cost per case
Best Practice Surgery Scheduling
A deep dive into your surgery and block scheduling
Sullivan Healthcare Consulting has developed proven methods of addressing common causes of dysfunctional scheduling programs. During a perioperative consulting project, our perioperative consultants will establish a customized scheduling process for your organization.
Enhanced scheduling programs that will improve:
- Facility utilization
- Increase the number of cases scheduled each day
- Allow elective cases to start as scheduled
- Maintain effective utilization of resources
- Decrease cost per case
- Provide accurate schedules
Patient Throughput Assessment
An extensive look into your patient throughput
By optimizing patient throughput, quality and profitability are both simultaneously and significantly improved. A well-developed and well-executed patient throughput process will meet patient service expectations, surgeon needs, and reduce cost per case. In a patient throughput optimization project, our perioperative consulting team will spend time learning current workflows and identifying opportunities for improvement. Partnered with a workflow redesign team composed of multiple levels of client staff and management, they educate team members on best practice standards for OR case time definitions and sequencing of activities.
Service Line Organization Assessment
A detailed assessment of your service line organization and needs
An OR organization comprised of specialty service line teams provides OR staff with the best opportunity to succeed. During an OR organizational structure and staffing project, Sullivan perioperative consultants will help you determine the number of service line teams you need, address FTE needs-based/determined coverage plan and develop role descriptions/training materials for each OR staff position.
Perioperative Education
Assistance building or growing your perioperative education program
Perhaps the most critical component of a specialty service line program is tiered perioperative education that meets OR nurses and support staff where they are and takes them to the required skill levels for their respective positions. Our perioperative consulting team can provide you with a seasoned perioperative education consultant who can work alone or with your clinical educator.
Presurgical Screening Assessment
A comprehensive review of your presurgical screening program
During a Presurgical Screening Assessment, our perioperative consulting experts will help you identify the unique challenges of your current patient management program and address them with a new or redesigned program. Our perioperative consultants focus on improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and maximizing income.
Surgical Facility Planning & Design
Assistance planning for the future of your surgical facility
We are frequently contacted by healthcare organizations that are developing facility architectural plans that will include a sterile processing department (SPD). We are also contacted by architectural firms and asked to review architectural plans they are preparing for hospital clients.
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