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ICYMI: Here's what's going on This Week in Surgery Centers. ⬇️ Boston Children's Hospital decreased its OR turnover times from 42 minutes to 36 minutes (14%) by introducing a new hybrid role called the OR Assistant (ORA). The concept is based on a NASCAR pit crew. The hospital also saw improvements in dust control and overall workplace culture, and the ORAs felt more valued and integrated into the team. [Source: Outpatient Surgery Magazine] 🎓 How can you attract and hire students fresh out of college? Offer preceptorship opportunities, proactively establish a strong relationship with educational institutions, partner with organizations like the National Institute of First Assisting to provide perioperative educational training, clarify in your online job postings you welcome new grads, and create a welcoming and supportive environment. [Source: Ambulatory Surgery Center Association / ASC Focus] 🚗 Uber Health unveiled Uber Caregiver, a solution that allows caregivers to coordinate rides and deliveries on behalf of the people they care for. The app has the potential to be an excellent option for some of your patients to help them get to and from surgery and reduce last-minute cancellations. [Source: MedCity News] 🤖 A recent study found that large language models – a type of generative AI – can accurately determine which patients in an emergency department need to be seen more urgently. When given pairs of patient histories, these AI models could pick the higher-acuity patient with 89% accuracy. [Source: Healthcare Dive] Check out the full stories on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube! #HealthcareNews #ThisWeekinSurgeryCenters #TWISC

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As always, it has been a busy week in healthcare, so let's jump right in. So our first story comes from Outpatient Surgery magazine, and it's all about turnover times, which is something we've talked about a ton just in terms of efficiency. So back in 2019, Boston Children's discovered that their OR turnover time was averaging 42 minutes for their most complex cases, and that was higher than they wanted to see. So Andrew Smith, who is the senior Director of Nursing and Patient Care Services. Realized that this was something that needed urgent improvement, so in 2022 they launched a Lean 6 Sigma project to identify and tackle these inefficiencies, and they ended up finding a few key issues. The three issues they found were that team members weren't communicating well, cleaning tasks were poorly coordinated, and supplies were only gathered at the end of cases. So to solve these problems, they introduced a new hybrid role. Called the OR Assistant Ora and these Oras, dubbed the pit crew, joined forces with nurses, techs and other staff to start turnovers together, just like the NASCAR pit crew does. And the new system ended up having a huge impact. Turnover times for these complex surgeries dropped to 36 minutes, which is a 14% reduction. And as we all know, every minute in the OR counts, so that's a huge improvement the hospital also saw. Improvements and dust control and overall workplace culture as the ORA's felt more valued in integrated into the team and the hospital shared that communication has been key to their success. Nurses and clinical assistants now lead the way in identifying cleaning needs, which streamlines the process for everybody, and then the anesthesia text also pitch in which has helped to ensure ensure a smooth and thorough turnover. Now, I know we're always talking about staffing, so shortages might be a roadblock to implementing this system, but it seems like a really cool and effective way to reduce turnover times, cross train, and build a culture around teamwork. And the article shared the following five steps to get started. Observe your current turnovers. Appoint a pit crew flow manager, communicate the plan, conduct comprehensive or assistant training, and then constantly assess for improvement. So even if feels like there may not be hope or opportunity for improvement at your surgery center, I think Boston Children's has shown that with this right approach, even the busiest ORS can run like clockwork. Can run like clockwork and be as efficient as possible. Our second story is from the May edition of AC Focus, and it's all about how to attract and hire students fresh out of college. So Aaron Hardwick, who is the executive Director of ASC's for Providence Saint Joseph Health, summarized it best. Considering the staffing shortage we are experiencing in many markets, graduates represent a largely untapped pipeline of potential employees. I believe it is an absolute imperative that we create mechanisms to bring this emerging talent. Of our ASC's and I quote that because I just feel like it really encapsulates the article, but then also the tips that people shared as well. So here are 5 tips that I rounded up after reading the whole article that were shared by both Chris Skagen, the Executive Director of the Colorado ASC Association and the Oregon ASC Association and Tina De Marino, who is the Chief of Operations for Custom Surgical Consultants. And the five tips are the first offer preceptorship. Opportunities. So this provides a space for students to complete their clinical rotations and get experience under their belt before they are making decisions about a job. And it's something that's typically only offered at the hospital, right? So they go to the hospital for this opportunity. They start to build that relationship, that comfort level. But if we start offering it at ASC's, if you're able to, it'll just help to build that relationship and awareness. The second is to proactively establish a strong relationship with educational institutions around you and determine how your AC can help these schools and their students. The third is to partner with organizations like the National Institute of First Assisting. This will allow you and this one example, to open your doors to provide perioperative educational training and help more nursing students access mock perioperative environments. Again, now they're coming into your surgery center and they're just building awareness and creating a great recruitment opportunity for you. This is a simple but a powerful one. I want to make sure we're not forgetting in your online job postings. Highlight that you have a great opportunity for new graduates and you welcome those fresh out of college to apply. I think we can all remember looking for through job applications and they all say three to five years experience. And everyone has that same thought of how am I supposed to get experience if no one will hire me? So I think if you lay that out in your job postings, people will feel more comfortable applying and and reaching out. And lastly, along the same lines, make sure you create a welcoming and supportive environment for new students and new staff, and make sure that the culture of your organization supports new grads. So maybe you partner them with the mentor or something like that, just so that they never feel like they're on their own and they're just being thrown to the wolves. So the moral of the story is to make sure you're educating your communities and local schools on what an ASC is, and then also opening your doors as often as you can to build these. Relationships and a pipeline of graduates. And in this third story, just this past week, Uber Health unveiled Uber Caregiver, which is a solution that allows caregivers to coordinate rides in deliveries on behalf of the people they care for. So starting this summer, this new feature will allow care receivers to add their caregivers to their Uber profile. And this means caregivers can now request rides and grocery deliveries on behalf of the people they're looking after. Plus they'll also get real time updates on those rides in deliveries. And I think this is the coolest feature there. They'll have the ability to have that 3 way chat to communicate directly with the drivers. I've called rides for people on their behalf and they're texting me one. Is the ride showing up? Things like that. This integration, I think, will allow all parties to see the same thing. And then those caregivers who already have so much administrative work ahead of them on behalf of the people they're caring for, this should help simplify it a little bit. Caregivers will also be able to view the care receivers benefits, like how many rides are covered or how much of the monthly grocery benefit is left. And care receivers can even authorize caregivers to pay for services using the app's health benefits. And Uber Health head of growth is Zachary Clark, and he called caregivers the invisible backbone of the health care system. So with Uber Caregiver, the goal is to make ease of the logistical, financial and mental burdens caregivers face, and hopefully this app can help provide them with much needed support. That was Zachary's angle. And next, Uber Health plans to expand these services by partnering with Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans. Hopefully in the future, when it comes to how this impacts surgery centers, I think this just might be a great option for some of your patients to help them get to and from surgery. My mom used to care for my grandma before she passed, and I watched how much it impacted her day-to-day, especially with doctors appointments in the middle of the day. She's trying to take off of work, so maybe there's a caregiver who can't take the whole day. Off So perhaps they use Uber caregiver to make sure their loved ones get to your ASC safely and then they'll be able to pick them up and take them home after their procedure is complete. So this might be something you can suggest during the pre op screening or perhaps let your schedulers and physician offices know that this is an option so they can share it as well. And who knows, it might just end up reducing some of those last minute cancellations too. And to end our new segment on a positive note, a recent study found that large language models, which is a type of generative AI, can accurately determine which patients in an emergency department need to be seen more urgently. When given pairs of patients patient histories, these AI models were able to pick the higher acuity patient with 89% accuracy. So why does this matter large language models have been making? Waves, as we are all hopefully know by now, with their potential to lighten the load on healthcare providers, especially with tasks like clinical note taking and drafting responses to patient questions. There's even been research showing that these models can pass medical licensing exams and solve diagnostic challenges, although most of that research has been done in simulated environments, not real life. This latest study, however, did take a real world approach, researchers at the University of California in San Francisco. Analyzed over a decade of adult emergency department visits focusing on the Emergency Severity index acuity score which ranges from immediate to non urgent. They sampled 10,000 pairs of visits with different acuity levels and ask the AI to determine which patient needed more urgent care based solely on clinical history and the results were pretty impressive. The model correctly identified. The more serious patient in 8940 of the 10,000 pairs and an older version of the model performs slightly worse with an 84% accuracy. So it's already improving and getting better. And interestingly enough, the model is even more accurate, almost 100% accurate when comparing cases with extreme differences like immediate versus non, non urgent. But it did struggle to find the differences and distinguish between. Less urgent and non urgent. So when the differences were more extreme, it nailed it. But when the differences were a little closer together, it did struggle there. But the authors did share that this would be unlikely to have significant clinical consequences. But still definitely a bit of a a shortcoming there. But the fact that it's already improved from 84 to 89%, obviously trending up and it should continue to get better and better. And this development definitely just highlights the potential of AI to support emergency departments if it can quickly and accurately assess patient acuity. So more to come on that, but it's interesting reading these examples of how they're impacting hospitals and emergency departments. But I think from all of these stories from other types of healthcare facilities, there's always, it's always sparking ideas on the surgery center front too. And that officially wraps U this week's podcast. Thank you, as always for spending a few minutes of your week with us. Make sure to subscribe or leave a review on whichever platform you're listening from. I hope you have a great day and we will see you again next week. Why?

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