How Ochsner Health Is Aligning Perioperative Performance, Supply Chain, & Clinical Variation


Thursday, June 4th, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT 

The perioperative environment is one of the largest untapped sources of financial and operational improvement in health systems — and most organizations still aren't capturing it.

Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision-making quietly erode margins without triggering obvious alarms. The systems pulling ahead are the ones connecting data, physicians and finance around a shared operational picture.

Ochsner Health is one of them. In this webinar, leaders from Ochsner will share how they're approaching perioperative optimization through advanced analytics, physician engagement and cross-functional collaboration — and what it takes to translate data into decisions that actually move margins.

You'll leave with:
 
  • How to identify the key drivers of perioperative margin leakage in your organization
  • Strategies to reduce clinical variation through physician alignment and data transparency
  • How supply chain optimization directly affects financial and clinical performance
  • Approaches to building collaboration across medical, operational and finance teams

Moderator: 

DawnPerryman - McKenzie Patrick

Dawn Perryman

Associate Vice President, Perioperative Supply Chain Solutions, Vizient, Inc. 

Presenters

Rene Gurdian - McKenzie Patrick

Rene Gurdian Jr., MBA

Vice President, SCM Data Analytics and Transformation 
Ochsner Health 

Nattie Leger - McKenzie Patrick

Nattie Leger, MSN, RN, LSSBB

Vice President, Supply Chain Value & Clinical Performance Ochsner Health