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Page 20 IDEAS That Work ON-TIME STARTS Bedside Check-In ******************* FAST TRACK An admissions rep uses her portable workstation to register a patient at bedside. ******************* Want to shave 30 to 45 minutes off your admission times and improve your first-case on-time starts? Register patients at bedside. After we give patients an armband, we bring them straight back to pre-op rather than asking them to take a seat in our waiting room. There, patients change into a gown and are met by an admissions rep. We equipped our admissions staff with mobile carts that contain everything they need to admit patients at the bedside.

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