Surgical Directions is a national consulting firm that assists community hospitals and academic medical centers with operational, financial, and strategic performance improvements in perioperative and anesthesia services. Our firm, led by a collaborative team of Anesthesiologists, OR Nurse Executives, and Perioperative Business Strategists and Analysts, has successfully helped hospitals and health systems improve perioperative services by:

• Implementing new models of perioperative governance creating alignment of key stakeholders
• Improving patient throughput utilizing Lean Methodology reducing waste and increasing efficiencies
• Increasing access to the O.R.
• Creating appropriate and fair block scheduling systems that increases block utilization and surgeon satisfaction
• Ensuring adequate Anesthesiology coverage and services
• Developing surgical service business line strategies to grow incremental volumes
• Streamlining and standardizing the preoperative process decreasing case cancellations
• Improving anesthesia charge capture, billing and collections
• Developing performance-based Anesthesia compensation programs

As a result of our work, our clients have experienced growth in surgical volume and improvements in their hospital's overall financial performance.