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IDEAS
That Work
ON-TIME STARTS
Bedside Check-In
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FAST TRACK An admissions rep uses her portable workstation to register a patient at bedside.
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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.