Project Description
Operating Room Design Assistance
The design of a perioperative facility can either contribute to operating room efficiency or challenge the cost-effective delivery of surgical care. A well-designed operating room suite requires emphasis on patient, material, and staffing flows as well as the integration of support resources. Operating room design and capacity requirements must consider future growth, market expansion and surgical discipline-specific facility requirements.
Inadequate operating room design can result in:
- Unnecessarily high staffing levels
- Inefficient use of surgeons’ time
- Decreased patient, surgeon, and anesthesiologist satisfaction
- Poor inventory control
- Increased costs of operation
- Decreased marketability to patients and surgeons
- Increased anesthesiology staffing costs and potential need for stipends
The OR Efficiencies can assist you by working with your architect and clinicians to:
- Perform surgical specialty-specific case volume demand analyses
- Forecast new business potential and OR capacity requirements
- Identify space and function requirements for renovated or replacement facilities
- Consult with your architects during the design-development phase
- Interpret architectural drawings to clinical stakeholders
- Prepare “operating manuals” that outline the optimum flow of patients and materials in the new facility and define processes to maximize the benefits of the new space.
Other Services Offered By OR Efficiencies. . .
Client Testimonials
My hospitals department of anesthesiology was falling apart due to stresses of the operating room.We lost a number of doctors and I feared losing my CRNAs because of our issues. Jerry personally assisted me to bring stability to the anesthesiology program and his team improved OR efficiencies and general operations so that now we're able to recruit and retain highly skilled anesthesia staff.
CEO - major Mid-Atlantic healthcare system- The consulting team assisted our surgeons to realize that they must be part of developing solutions, not simply to expect administration to provide them a perfect world.
Now our surgeons and anesthesiologists are actively engaged, police themselves and have a higher level of satisfaction with our ORs being much more efficient.
Surgeon and OR Committee Chair - major Northeastern medical center - The hospital CEO and the dean made it my responsibility to fix the OR without holding any other parties accountable.
Our anesthesiology program was greatly in deficit due to the staffing costs associated with a terribly inefficient OR. I was losing faculty and could not recruit to our program due to the imbalance of work-load and compensation package. Jerry brought facts and education. He assisted in mediating our relationships and educated us on how to move forward. The assistance Jerry provided me and my program assisted me not only to improve our present situation and be successful in my position but also to move on in my own career.
Department of Anesthesiology Chair - then serving at a mid-Atlantic University program having moved on to Department Chair at a prestigious Southwestern University. - I moved to another CEO position and didn’t realize the disrepair our OR program was in until after I started.
I lost the contact information and spent hours tracking them down after nearly ten years. They were there for me and assisted me through another difficult situation.
CEO - Northeastern community medical center 
Jerry assisted me to bring stability to the anesthesiology program and his team improved OR efficiencies and general operations. . .My hospitals department of anesthesiology was falling apart due to stresses of the operating room. We lost a number of doctors and I feared losing my CRNAs because of our issues. "Jerry assisted me to bring stability to the anesthesiology program and his team improved OR efficiencies and general operations so that now we're able to recruit and retain highly skilled anesthesia staff."
CEO - major Mid-Atlantic healthcare system- Jerry Ippolito’s team assisted our surgeons to realize that they must be part of developing solutions,
not simply to expect administration to provide them a perfect world. Now our surgeons and anesthesiologists are actively engaged, police themselves and have a higher level of satisfaction with our ORs being much more efficient.
Surgeon and OR Committee Chair - major Northeastern medical center - Jerry, the services and education you provided my department and administration proved to be invaluable in resolving differences and developing solutions.
Before we started the engagement I thought my anesthesiology department was going to implode; you spread oil on troubled waters.
Highly published Chair of Anesthesiology - Midwestern University Hospital System - Our surgeons wanted to develop their own ASC until Ippolito and his team showed us that a community hospital OR can be as efficient as a surgery center.
Surgeon satisfaction improved and the surgeons continued to support the hospital.
Chief Nursing Officer - rural Midwestern community hospital - Their team made me feel good and part of the solution. . .
and never threatened in my position. I learned a lot and value the experience. I feel like we're friends.
Director of Surgical Services - major Northeastern medical center - “I’ve worked with Jerry Ippolito for over fifteen years. . .
Not only has he always been there to guide me through challenging situations, but he is a person of the highest integrity I've met in the business world.
Exec VP Operations - major Midwestern medical center