AHA with leaders from Carilion Clinic and Surgical Directions discuss strategies to enhance surgical operations and drive better outcomes.
Stephen LovernFebruary 17, 2026
On this episode of Scrub In, Barbara McClenathan, VP of Nursing and Michael Besedick, Managing Director of Product discuss how the new Merlin Nurse Staffing Module is helping clients optimize staffing ratios, save money on…
Barbara McClenathanSeptember 18, 2024
Join Dr. Katherine Grichnik, Barbara McClenan, and Lindsay Lauders as they explore crucial strategies for tackling the anesthesia labor and revenue crisis in surgical services. In this insightful discussion, you'll learn about the growing demand…
Katherine GrichnikSeptember 18, 2024
CHICAGO, IL. – September 18, 2024 — Surgical Directions, a leading provider of perioperative and anesthesia consulting and technology services, proudly announces the launch of the Merlin Nurse Staffing module. Developed to address the critical…
Surgical DirectionsSeptember 18, 2024
There's days when there's more rooms running past 5 PM than they're staffed for. They have a high load of add-on cases, and there's not predictability. So in order to do this manually, it's ask…
Barbara McClenathanSeptember 9, 2024
The nation’s surgical market is booming. This is accelerated by a growing senior population and recovering surgical volume (including elective procedures) after the pandemic. ASCs are key for increased volume at a lower cost.
Katherine GrichnikSeptember 5, 2024
My background, being a director, I was very familiar with different types of staffing models, with benchmarks, industry standards. And every client that we would visit would ask us to do a staffing analysis compared…
Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024
Traditionally, ORs look at the block schedule. And they'll say, we have four ortho rooms on a Monday, two GYN rooms, et cetera. And that's how they'll try to build their staffing schedule. X number…
Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024
By aligning all the staffing levels, we're able to identify what the needs are based on the predicted case load and doing it manually the traditional way, we certainly just couldn't accomplish that. Merlin has…
Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024
