Flexibility is the future: Why you need dynamic block management

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT

As a major revenue generator for a health system, perioperative leaders focus on structuring block schedules to maximize utilization, most often by surgeon, but also by service-line or a hybrid of both. However, most solutions pigeonhole organizations into a one-size-fits-all approach for managing blocks, without considering each hospital’s unique structure, goals, and changing circumstances. As a result, health systems find themselves bound to a rigid management model that does not align with their surgeons’ needs, their department’s overall priorities, and the changing dynamics they face on an ongoing basis, leading to financial repercussions and dissatisfied surgeons and staff.

In this webinar, we will discuss how dynamic block management principles provide the flexibility to adapt operating models to the specific circumstances that your health system is facing to achieve peak perioperative performance. Hear from industry leaders at MUSC, Siemens Healthineers and Hospital IQ about how they partnered to apply innovative block management solutions that empower perioperative service lines across the MUSC network.

Key Learning Objectives:

Strategies to identify what block operating model is the best fit for a health system
How and when to adjust block management practices/models to meet evolving priorities (from structuring blocks to optimize high-margin service lines or to attract new surgeons and practices)
Review examples of how a leading hospital has applied these practices and the benefits they have seen.

Presenters

Dr. David Zaas

Chief Executive Officer, Charleston Division, Chief Clinical Officer, MUSC Health

Shawn Sefton, MBA, BSN, RN

Chief Nursing Officer and VP, Clinical Solutions

Ben Sperling

Vice President, Enterprise Intelligence Solutions, Siemens Healthineers