On this episode of Scrub In, Leslie Basham, President and CEO discusses the five areas impacting hospitals and health systems nationwide in 2024 and provides tips and insights on how to manage them.
On this episode of Scrub In, Barbara McClenathan, VP of Nursing and Michael Besedick, Managing Director of Product discuss how the new Merlin Nurse Staffing Module is helping clients optimize staffing ratios, save money on…
Join Dr. Katherine Grichnik, Barbara McClenan, and Lindsay Lauders as they explore crucial strategies for tackling the anesthesia labor and revenue crisis in surgical services. In this insightful discussion, you'll learn about the growing demand…
On this episode of Scrub In, the Surgical Directions team sits down with Sarah Bush Lincoln’s CFO, Dennis Pluard, VP Surgical Services, Colt Guthridge, to discuss how a successful perioperative implementation improved their volume a…
This is our nurse staffing dashboard. Across the top, you have a couple options that I'll touch on in a minute. And this main panel is a few important visualizations. This is a snapshot of…
There's days when there's more rooms running past 5 PM than they're staffed for. They have a high load of add-on cases, and there's not predictability. So in order to do this manually, it's ask…
What the predictive analytics helps you do is essentially say, well, based on these patterns, we can understand you may not want to staff those two extra rooms on that third Thursday of the month…
We saw a lot of our clients that had a high degree of traveling nurses, which can be really costly to an organization. We had a lot of clients that felt as though-- well, maybe…
One of the big drivers behind developing the perioperative nurse staffing tool was largely surgical services has experienced a tectonic shift post-COVID with the drop in elective surgeries that happened and then the ramp up…
Not every staff person is cross trained across every specialty. And also different organizations have different preferences that maybe fall outside of the norm of traditional ARON, or other productivity driven guidelines. And that's something…