REST ASSURED WITH USAP.

 

The way your anesthesia team operates speaks volumes—patient volumes.

The importance of an efficient and optimized operating room is well documented. But how do you arrive at the most effective and streamlined approach? As the industry leader, USAP has over a decade of experience in providing health systems and hospitals with highly efficient anesthesia teams and services. While there is not a one-size fits all approach, USAP is ready to partner with you on the path to operational excellence and success.

 

The USAP approach

Define your OR strategy.

USAP will put our analytics to work to evaluate your operating model, OR metrics, facility mix, provider mix and other relevant factors to develop a multi-phase strategic plan.

Articulate areas of opportunity.

Utilizing proven industry best practices, USAP will provide optimized anesthesia scheduling, staffing, board running, and resource planning.

Partner for measurable improvement.

USAP partners with your leadership, OR directors and surgeons to optimize OR efficiency which in turn may increase hospital margins and patient satisfaction.

 

Leveraging data to achieve OR efficiency one facility at a time.

USAP tracks a suite of metrics to ensure our optimization strategies are resulting in more efficiencies for your organization. Some key metric examples include:

• Start time
• Gap time
• Care team ratio

 

Collaborating to achieve shared goals.

USAP recently partnered with two large health systems to bring improved efficiency to their anesthesia care team and their operating rooms. Through the sharing of best practices and utilization of our proprietary OR data analytics and benchmarking tools, we were able to achieve improvements in several key areas. The results showed measurable success and demonstrated USAP’s ability to clearly optimize the way their ORs operate.

 

Partnership with Health System 1

(Change from 2020 to 2021, Sept-Nov)

• Gap time decreased by 12.5%
  Gap time reduced from 40 to 35 minutes

• Clinician utilization increased by 7%
  Clinician utilization increased from 67% to 72%

• % 1:1 decreased by 54%
  Percent of time in 1:1 reduced from 24% to 11%, Reduced 1:1 staffing, and optimized care team ratios to improve coverage ability and drive scheduling efficiency

• Care team ratio increased by 26%
  Care team ratio improved from 2.3:1 to 2.9:1

 

Partnership with Health System 2

(Change from 2019 to 2022)

• Gap time decreased by 18.4%
  Gap time reduced from 38 to 31 minutes

• Clinician utilization increased by 16%
  Clinician utilization increased from 58% to 69%

• Average first case started 11 minutes earlier
  Average morning start time improved from 7:45am to 7:34am

 

How can USAP help you rest assured?

Whether it’s reducing your turnover times or optimizing your anesthesia coverage model, at USAP we have the tools, expertise, and collaborative spirit to solve for your opportunities. Put the industry leaders in anesthesiology to work for you.

 

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