Compirion and Anderson Surgery Center Reduce OR Inefficiencies and Improv...( MARYVILLE Ill. Aug. 3 /- ...),Health

MARYVILLE, Ill., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- In the midst of bad economic times, Anderson Hospital's Surgery Center is thriving, thanks to the devoted efforts of hospital staff and the assistance of a healthcare consulting firm out of Elm Grove, Wisconsin, Compirion Healthcare Solutions. While competing hospitals in the area are seeing a drop in utilization of their operating rooms, Anderson Hospital's Surgery Center has seen Volume Hours increase 8.5% over the last six months.

After seeing a slide in market share and receiving some negative feedback from surgeons who began at the end of last year, hospital leadership wanted to ensure they were doing everything possible to make the Surgery Center attractive to area surgeons and to streamline processes and procedures in the department in an effort to handle more volume and increase profitability.

According to Kim Perry, Director of Perioperative Services, "The Surgical Department had reached status quo. We tried but weren't moving along with Quality Indicators or Patient Satisfaction. I wasn't satisfied with Anderson being a good (surgery center.) We needed to be the best."

To assist in the improvement project, hospital President and CEO Keith Page suggested engaging Compirion Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare consulting firm focusing on hospital process improvement. Compirion had recently helped Anderson Hospital with a Patient Throughput improvement project in its Emergency Department that reduced door-to-admit time from 5.6 hours to 2.95 hours while increasing Billable Patient Volume 11%. Based on the success of that project, hospital leadership again cho
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