BFW Inc.

JUNE 17, 2021

Operating room inventory and equipment account for nearly 60% of total hospital costs alone. However, cost is just one factor worth considering when you’re looking to improve hospital efficiency. Let’s take a deeper look at the relationship between hospital performance, equipment, and processes.

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SpecialtyCare

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

To improve SPD efficiency, effective management tools need to be implemented, including training and error tracking, tray optimization, and increased communication and collaboration between the SPD and the OR. Error tracking is another key area where many hospitals fall short in SPD management.

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OR Manager

JUNE 23, 2024

Consider the surgical safety checklist. In 2020, more than a decade after the World Health Organization (WHO) started advocating that every hospital More » The post State of the huddle: The barriers to and benefits of preop meetings appeared first on OR Manager. Complex problems do not always require complex solutions.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JUNE 4, 2024

Yet, with a single minute in the OR costing as much as $120, ASCs, hospital outpatient departments (HOPD), and ORs regularly waste much more than that. Start and End With Communication Communication is far and away the most crucial element in successful pre-anesthesia testing processes. Do it again. Wait another minute.

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SpecialtyCare

JUNE 21, 2025

At SpecialtyCare, we’ve witnessed firsthand how career opportunities in sterile processing provide not just employment, but meaningful work that directly impacts patient safety and surgical outcomes.

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EARN Cares

MAY 26, 2022

Medical-Surgical Nursing is the Foundation of Hospital Nursing Medical-Surgical Nursing is the foundation of hospital nursing. Keeping it Clear Communication is critical to excellent healthcare outcomes. An essential tool to communicate with is the SBAR method. Another essential communication tool is delegation.

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BFW Inc.

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Optimize Care Synchronization and Communication In the operating room, clear communication and seamless coordination are required to perform safe, successful surgeries. Now, this is not to suggest that video replaces the need for verbal communication.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Luke’s Health System, Gerry Biala, RN, MS, CNOR, CSSM, Senior Vice President, Sullivan Healthcare Consulting While the facility is technically a hospital outpatient department (HOPD), St. OR committees are important for any hospital, HOPD, or ASC. Through their work, they helped St. And for a facility of this scale, they’re essential.

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Picis

JULY 18, 2024

For patients, the PSH model can lead to reduced complications, shorter hospital stays, and improved overall satisfaction with the surgical experience. From preoperative planning to postoperative rehabilitation, the PSH model facilitates coordinated transitions that enhance patient safety and recovery.

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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Patient safety issues and medication errors. Watch for these signs of ineffective leadership: Little to no participation in hospital/ASC committees. Poor alignment with the hospital’s goals and mission. Inadequate communication. Lookout for: A trend toward severe post-operative nausea and vomiting.

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Nashville Anesthesia Professionals

AUGUST 30, 2023

million hospital births found that pairing a newborn with a physician of the same race reduces in-hospital mortality by 50%, as well as decreasing communication barriers between patients and physicians, and increasing healthcare utilization by these patients 2. Another retrospective analysis of 1.8 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

From patient safety and satisfaction to payer relationships and OR utilization, sterile processing has an enormous yet often-obscured impact on a facility’s function and sustainability. And when a sterile processing department can do that, they can ensure an elite level of patient safety and satisfaction.

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Somnia

MAY 2, 2023

Masking requirements in health care have continued longer than in the community because these settings need higher safety measures. Now, most mask mandates only remain at hospitals and in healthcare settings, but experts say it is time to walk back those policies. . In March 2020, the world was rocked by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Incision

JANUARY 29, 2024

Many of us have seen problems caused by a lack of communication between different parts of an organization. We organize our work according to what tasks fall under what teams, based on the traditional structures of hospitals and training programs. Part of the phrase's popularity surely comes from the commonality of what it describes.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JULY 9, 2024

In today’s fierce talent market, retention is a core concern for hospitals and ORs. As a result, ORs and hospitals are paying for it. In fact, the onboarding program’s success is hampered from the start if your hospital doesn’t develop a preboarding program. For hospitals and ASCs, a one-year nurse turnover is unsustainable.

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 12, 2024

As a trusted partner to hospitals across the United States, SpecialtyCare offers a wide range of career paths in healthcare that provide meaningful work, professional development, and competitive benefits. You’ll be working with professionals who value communication and cooperation. Why Choose SpecialtyCare for your Medical Career?

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Salem Anesthesia

JUNE 12, 2023

They play a crucial role in healthcare by ensuring patient safety and comfort before, during, and after surgical procedures. The CRNA uses a variety of information to execute and modify the anesthesia plan as needed, including measures to assess patient safety and comfort.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

He wants to get out of bed, walk as much as possible, and go home from the hospital as soon as he can. They walk out of the hospital room together, and the patient, still headache free, looks back over his shoulder to you and says, “Thanks, Doc. It can happen, and it’s not that difficult in some hospital systems. Let’s do it.”

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SpecialtyCare

JULY 10, 2024

Another critical question for hospital administrations is the size of their robotic fleet. Since the implementation of EMRs, hospitals collect a lot of data, but extracting and analyzing this data to turn it into actionable information is challenging. What’s Considered Best Practice in Robotic Surgery? But it’s actually possible.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 28, 2024

While 43% worked in an academic medical center, 35% worked in a community hospital, 11% worked in a city/county hospital, and 6% worked solely in an ambulatory surgery center. The establishment of a successful preoperative evaluation clinic requires commitment, collaboration, and support from several hospital disciplines.”

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Triage Staffing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But what can you expect? A Wide Range of Experience ER travel nurses can work in many hospital types, from large, Level 1 trauma centers to smaller, community or rural hospitals. We’ve heard of travelers communicating with a scammer, signing a lease and even paying thousands for first month’s rent and a deposit.

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OR Manager

JUNE 30, 2025

The leadership structure for an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) can be confusing for the uninitiated. Structures vary across ASC types, which range from a single physician owner to complex joint ventures More » The post ASC adaptability depends on properly structured leadership appeared first on OR Manager.

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walkerproject

JANUARY 20, 2021

In addition, the influence of hospital administration on this platform is also increasingly visible. Stable management and reliable planning ensure a balance in this personnel- and cost-intensive hospital area. Patient orientation is created by secure planning, reliability of (OR) appointments, no waiting times and patient safety (e.g.

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ARC/STSA

JUNE 22, 2023

Luke’s University Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania I am extremely humbled and thankful to be a recipient of this scholarship. Deanna Hayden Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Being the last line of defense for patient safety and sterility in the operating room requires someone with strong and effective communication.

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MEDITEK

JANUARY 26, 2022

With so many options for premium operating tables, you may find it challenging to select a surgical table for your hospital. Motorized control Modern tables now offer hybrid options for motorized control, which prevents the stress of manual operations and physical accidents with hospital staff.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 4, 2022

How soon will we see robotic anesthesia in our hospitals and surgery centers? Most of these discoveries originated in Silicon Valley, just miles outside Stanford University Hospital where I’ve been working for the past 42 years. Our medical world inside the hospital has changed more slowly. Relatively little.

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CNECT

MARCH 19, 2024

AI Scanning Images to Detect Breast Cancer Risk Massachusetts General Hospital has harnessed the ability of an AI system developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to detect patients at high risk of developing breast cancer. These safety concerns have caught the eye of Congress. Tom Cunningham, I.T.

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OR Manager

JUNE 23, 2024

Reforming instrument reprocessing practices does not always end with the main sterile processing department (SPD). Holding clinics to the same standard adds to the challenge, whether they are associated with More » The post Scaling standards from sterile processing department to clinic appeared first on OR Manager.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

News & World Report Best Hospitals expert opinion survey and vote for the Best Hospital in Cardiology and Heart Surgery. The survey gives you the opportunity to vote for the top hospitals across the nation. 8 at IU Health Methodist Hospital.

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SpecialtyCare

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) therapy has increased in recent years, after the COVID pandemic, as hospitals and clinicians have realized its growing value as a life-saving therapy with multiple new and emerging use cases.

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MEDITEK

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Surgical Booms for Optimal Movement With the advancement of technology, more Canadian healthcare facilities are using surgical booms with cutting-edge communications and video systems. Studies show that ORs are a significant revenue source but also the main source of waste and cost in hospitals. Million by 2027. SecondStreet.Org.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 2, 2018

Prior to the FDA statement, Texas Children’s Hospital performed more than 43,000 cases each year. 1 Dr. ) Some anesthesiologists do specialty fellowship education for one or two years in pediatric anesthesia, usually at an academic pediatric hospital, and are therefore well-trained to attend to your child. There are an estimated 1.5

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OR Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

Before Florence Nightingale revolutionized nursing in the mid-19th century, men played the crucial role of nurses on the battlefield. However, as time passed, nursing became a female-dominated profession. Men and women received the same level of training and worked together during World War I, but the men were called orderlies and paid less.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 12, 2021

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the internet as “an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.” Every hospital operating room is equipped with a computer connected to the internet. Love it or hate it, the EMR is here to stay.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

The Department of Otolaryngology has a longstanding history of its residents placing into nationally recognized fellowship programs and hospitals. The rest go straight to work in hospitals and private practices. Most residents—about 60%—enter fellowship programs. And about half of the residents practice academic medicine.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

On January 3rd 2023, 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest when he collapsed after experiencing a helmet-to-his-sternum tackle against the Cincinnati Bengals. Hamlin received CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) on the field, and his heartbeat was restored before he was taken to a Cincinnati hospital.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

To hold on to that privilege, you must promote healthcare safety and a caring heart. Promise with me to maintain habits in which you self-assess and self-correct your own and our peers’ skills and safety. The contract has nothing to do with money, or prestige of the patient, or dictates of insurance companies or hospitals.

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