Perioperative Operations Consulting
Perioperative Operations Consulting
While the perioperative department is often the highest cost center, it also holds the highest margin potential. Agility Surgical offers leading-edge, contemporary Perioperative Operations Consulting to hospitals and health systems, delivering comprehensive program assessments that result in improved operational efficiency and significantly increased income. We help bring your entire surgery program—including Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Supply Chain Management, and Sterile Processing—up to best-practice standards. Our expertise covers everything from Anesthesia Negotiation and Management to implementing Best Practice Surgery Scheduling and providing Interim Leadership & Change Management, ensuring your surgical services achieve peak performance and profitability.
Best Practice Perioperative Analysis Program
Our most requested service, the Best Practice Perioperative Analysis Program, is a high-level, broad assessment of your entire perioperative program, typically completed within a rapid six to eight-week turnaround. Characterized by its broad scope and active clinical staff involvement, our consulting team uses extensive comparative benchmarks to identify every opportunity to maximize efficiency. This analysis focuses on key areas like Governance, Surgery Scheduling, Presurgical Screening, and Patient Throughput. The result is a substantial reduction in cost per case and measurable improvements in operating room utilization, improved productivity, and consistently high-quality patient care.
What We Offer
Best Practice Surgery Scheduling
Overcome the common causes of dysfunctional scheduling with our deep dive into your surgery and block utilization. Our perioperative consultants establish a custom-designed, enhanced scheduling process that directly improves facility utilization and significantly decreases cost per case. We use proven methods to increase the number of surgical cases scheduled each day, ensure elective procedures start as planned, and maintain the effective utilization of all valuable operating room resources, providing your facility with consistently accurate schedules and maximum surgical volume.
Patient Throughput Assessment
Achieving optimal Patient Throughput is essential for simultaneously improving quality, profitability, and surgeon satisfaction. Our extensive assessment dives into learning and redesigning current workflows to meet patient expectations and reduce the cost per case. We partner with your clinical staff and management to identify improvement opportunities and educate team members on best practice standards for case time definitions and sequencing of activities. The result is a well-executed throughput process that significantly enhances OR efficiency and clinical flow.
Service Line Organization Assessment
To ensure your Operating Room (OR) staff is positioned for success, a detailed Service Line Organization Assessment is critical. We recognize that an OR organized by specialty service line teams maximizes staff potential and surgeon support. Our perioperative consultants help you determine the necessary FTE-based coverage plan and the ideal number of service line teams, providing customized role descriptions and training materials for each OR staff position to ensure maximum staffing efficiency and optimal utilization of your clinical workforce.
Perioperative Education
We provide essential assistance for building or growing your Perioperative Education program, recognizing that a tiered education program is the most critical component of a specialty service line team. Our goal is to meet OR nurses and support staff where they are and swiftly elevate them to the required skill levels for their respective positions. Our perioperative consulting team provides you with a seasoned perioperative education consultant who can work directly alongside your clinical educator to establish a sustainable, high-impact training curriculum.
Presurgical Screening Assessment
Ensure operational efficiency and maximize income with a comprehensive Presurgical Screening Assessment. Our perioperative consulting experts will immediately identify the unique challenges within your current patient management program. We then deliver a new or redesigned screening program focused on improving efficiency, reducing pre-operative costs, and minimizing case cancellations. This strategic approach streamlines the patient journey, guaranteeing surgical readiness and increasing overall OR throughput.
Surgical Facility Planning & Design
Secure the future of your surgical services with our expert Surgical Facility Planning & Design assistance. Healthcare organizations and architectural firms frequently consult with us to review and develop architectural plans that meet the highest standards of clinical flow and compliance. We specialize in designing and integrating critical components like the Sterile Processing Department (SPD), ensuring efficient instrument reprocessing and preventing bottlenecks, ultimately saving you time and costly redesigns during construction.
Why Choose Us
Financial Feasibility & Strategy
We review and recommend on pro-formas and feasibility studies to maximize banking options, approvals, and investor participation.
Strategic Vendor Selection
Leveraging relationships to select and negotiate with vendors who bring maximum value based on your facility’s specific needs and preferences.
Operational Staffing & Leadership
We provide insight on staffing ratios, budgetary considerations, and organizational leadership to maximize profitability and manage overhead.
Equipment Sourcing & Negotiation
We negotiate on your behalf to maximize capital purchase value. We also offer certified, pre-owned equipment to reduce unnecessary spend and protect equity.
Brand-Centric Facility Design
We create functional, aesthetically beautiful, and welcoming spaces that reduce patient anxiety. We partner only with top-tier healthcare design firms.
Shareholder Privileging & Review
We offer services for clinical background, practice outcomes, and legal review for prospective physician shareholders practicing at your facility.
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