onboarding of total joint replacement." It also offers a webinar by
Mark Snyder, MD, director of the Orthopaedic Center of Excellence at
Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, titled, Best Practices for
Pre, Peri and Post-Op Care of the Short Stay Joint Replacement
Patient.
2. Coordinate site visits to other total joint facilities
Nothing opens your eyes like seeing what's involved for yourself.
DePuy Synthes and Arthrex are among the companies that set up site
visits to up-and-running joint programs so facility leaders can see first-
hand how the process works.
David Uba, MBA, CEO of Excelsior Orthopedics in Amherst, N.Y.,
recalls going to a surgery center in Columbus, Ohio, under the guid-
ance of DePuy Synthes, and spending the day with surgeons and the
administrative team. He was able to get a feel for how the personnel
worked together in the surgical center to make sure the patient was
ready to leave by the end of the day, says Mr. Uba.
Arthrex invites a party of 4 — generally a surgeon, administrator,
member of the nursing department and an anesthesiologist — from
the facility interested in adding a program to spend a day in a surgery
center, says Steve Schewe, director of global arthroplasty business
development for Arthrex.
Each visitor spends the day shadowing his or her corresponding
peer, watching how the other works, sets up patients, gives advice to
family members and fills out paperwork for payers, says Mr. Schewe.
What makes the biggest impact? Almost always, visitors expect only
large facilities to be able to handle outpatient total joint procedures
and are shocked at just how much one small surgical facility can han-
dle, says Mr. Schewe.
"Typically, the group leaves motivated — and they also realize how
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