Project Description
Succession Planning for the Operating Room
“OR Efficiencies provides the tools and assistance to plan the management succession for your operating room. Our process identifies key roles, the management capabilities of existing staff, and cultivates qualified internal candidates to become superior leaders for tomorrow’s perioperative environment.”
Description of Succession Planning Services
The challenges of today’s complex surgical service dictate the need for uninterrupted proactive management to:
- Provide dynamic, stable leadership across all components of perioperative services;
- Facilitate day-to-day communication among key stakeholders;
- Identify opportunities to implement new programs and improved processes enhancing patient care, optimizing physician productivity, and promoting staff retention
Helping Meet Today’s Needs for Surgery Leadership Development
A severe shortage of experienced, surgery leadership is increasingly evident throughout the country. Accomplished Operating Room Directors have been retiring or leaving the field to pursue other career opportunities. Reduced margins have forced hospitals to “flatten” their organizations, limiting opportunities for focused, individualized leadership potential and skill development.
Surgery managers typically evolve from the ranks of exceptional clinicians. Top clinical performers often have the potential to demonstrate a similarly high level of expertise in management, but require significant preparation for these new roles and responsibilities. Surgery administrators frequently fail or give up prematurely during this role transition due to the lack of appropriate preparation, administrative support, definitive career planning and development. Additionally, the critical shortage of nursing professionals feeding the pool of young managerial talent has been exacerbated by the absence of skilled leaders to guide their professional growth.
In response to this deficiency in perioperative leadership development, the OR Efficiencies has designed a comprehensive program that will provide the following:
- A baseline assessment of the overall perioperative organization including leadership skills, competencies, potential and strategic direction;
- An audit of the existing surgery program to quantify point-of-departure performance indicators (dashboard) and establish a template of activities required to achieve positive program change;
- Identification of significant issues, deficiencies and opportunities for leadership enhancement;
- Design of a customized leadership development program which addresses identified learning needs of the organization, individuals and leadership team;
- Facilitation of day-to-day communication among all groups involved in perioperative processes;
- Regular administrative feedback regarding the progress of individual(s) leadership development.
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