This community hospital had no formal process in place for updating operating room instrument sets and requested that Novia provide assistance in the development and implementation of a strategy to standardize their approach and to reduce waste in the process. Instrument tracking system enhancements led to opportunities to consolidate and update instrument sets, with the goal of improving efficiencies and ensuring compliance with recommended practices for set weights and sterilization modalities. Using a facilitative approach and LEAN methodologies, Novia guided this client to assemble a multi- disciplinary team and develop a documented and sustainable process to address their known opportunities and to identify additional opportunities for ongoing operating room instrument se

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