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Project get started and at that point well have calls to identify what would they like us to do, what are the challenges within the hospital, where do they see a partnership that would fit? Then we, generally, come on site and we conduct an assessment. So well evaluate each of the areas. If were looking at a perioperative transformation, well evaluate every area within perioperative services and well look at the scheduling process. The pre-anesthesia testing department well look at pre-op morning of surgery, interop well look at their workflow, sterile processing, how instruments flow, the recovery room.
Well also evaluate their data. Well look at length of stay, well look at quality indicators, well look at their metrics, their volume, their block utilization, room utilization, staffing. And given that, we have some proprietary goals and benchmarks and well evaluate where does this client stand in the spectrum? And with that well provide a report of what our findings are and our reports are very detailed. We meet with staff, we interview staff, we try to better understand all activities that are conducted within each one of the departments. We like to see whats working well, we like to see what their challenges are, what their opportunities are.
And with that well provide the report to the executive team and well flag out where we see their greatest opportunities for improvement are. Many times its raising the bar. We go into quite a few A level hospitals where we will just help them to get to that A-plus status. There may be one area that they would like us to work on or there may be numerous areas that they would like some help with, and then we mutually decide where would they like some help?
Following that we would come back on site for an extended period of time, and this is where were boots on the ground. We work hand in hand with your surgeons, with your anesthesia providers, with your nurses, with your sterile processing techs. And we work with them to help design optimal workflow, we try to resolve any challenges that theyre having, and to rebuild and do tran– and conduct a transformation on their services. And the projects can last anywhere from four months, sometimes years, depending on what were come in for. And then we share all of our findings on a regular basis.
