Inside OHSU's OR staffing turnaround: 25 hours a week returned to patient care
Oregon Health & Science University runs 53 ORs across 4 sites and performs nearly 39,000 cases a year. With financial pressure and rising surgical volume, perioperative leaders needed a faster, more reliable way to staff rooms and sustain morale.
This report details how OHSU replaced paper-based rosters with a data-driven approach that centralizes staff experience, forecasts demand and builds consistent, skill-matched OR teams.
Learnings include:
This report details how OHSU replaced paper-based rosters with a data-driven approach that centralizes staff experience, forecasts demand and builds consistent, skill-matched OR teams.
Learnings include:
- How OHSU reclaimed 25 hours/week in staffing coordination and redirected time to patient care
- How data-driven assignments reduced average case duration by 5 minutes and turnover by 2 minutes
- How OHSU moved from 50% to 80% consistently staffed teams
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