Boosting OR Utilization: How UCHealth Optimized Surgical Scheduling with Predictive Reporting
Boosting OR Utilization: How UCHealth Optimized Surgical Scheduling with Predictive Reporting
1 PagesUCHealth, a Colorado-based system with 12 hospitals and 140 operating rooms, faced challenges with timely block time releases and underutilized OR capacity. To address these issues, UCHealth partnered with LeanTaaS to develop a "Predicted Availability Report," which provides daily statistical predictions on block time usage. This solution led to a 19-day average for proactive block time releases, a 49% release fill rate, and an 80% OR utilization rate, helping UCHealth recover from pandemic-related procedure backlogs and optimize surgical services
