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Barbara McClenathan

A Peer to Peer Model that Supports Every Role at the Hospital

Our team of highly experienced physicians, nurses, and business consultants leverage a peer-to-peer triad model to build credibility and trust among your front-line teams. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:08.26] Our model of surgical directions is a peer-to-peer model. We have nurses, physicians, and business staff. And when we go on site with a client, we partner.

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Brian Watha

Challenging the Status Quo to Improve Operations

Peel back the layers that touch procedural care to reveal progress, results and financial improvements. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO]   [00:00:07.29] I think when we’re able to go to an organization and you have all these individuals and all these different actors– anesthesia, nursing, SPD, financial clearance, scheduling, and so on and so forth, everyone has their

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Barbara McClenathan

Client Case Study

See how Surgical Directions partners with you to transform perioperative services to deliver significant results. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:08.01] We’ve been with this client over seven years, and it started out where we came in to do a perioperative transformation and there was a significant amount of success. When we started with this client their

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Brian Watha

Driving Accountability with Merlin

Take back control of your operating room, the financial heart of your organization, by leveraging data and analytics to maximize performance. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:08.82] How can you actually like manage block time? If the reports you’re using to hold a surgeon accountable aren’t trustworthy from the surgeon perspective, and there’s a whole layer of

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Brian Watha

Growing into the ASC Market

Can your hospital survive the growing dominance of ASCs? [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:07.70] Surgeons have multiple options of where they’re going to do surgery, hospitals are competing for that volume. And with the emergence of the ASCs, I mean, if you’re not efficient, there’s a lot of leakage that’s happening. But how do you do

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Brian Watha

How to Improve Company Culture

Create processes to improve efficiency, throughput and better patient care. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:08.21] Most times we go to organization and there’s a culture of accommodation because they want to make their surgeons happy, which I appreciate to a certain extent. But when you accommodate every single surgeon you’ve undermined the hospital’s process to the

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Barbara McClenathan

Improving Company Culture

Identify and overcome barriers to create more cohesive and effective environments [00:00:00.47] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:07.57] We develop goals, initially. Right from the start, we try to develop some goals of the project. And yes, there is resistance, and that’s expected. But one of our primary goals is sustainability. So we like to work with the

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Brian Watha

Leveraging Data to Reprioritize Patient & Doctor Needs

Proactively manage the OR to meet patient & doctor needs. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:07.76] I think the most important thing is helping an organization reprioritize their OR to their patient and surgeon needs. Take a step back to proactively think, “How should we manage the OR, how should our access be so that it aligns

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Barbara McClenathan

Our Company History & Accomplishments

Partner with a solution-focused consulting organization that is powering the future of perioperative and procedural care one implementation at a time. [00:00:07.37] We are a procedural and perioperative partner for hospitals, for ambulatory centers, for anesthesia departments. We work hand-in-hand with our clients, which are leaders, administrators, physicians, nursing staff. We have a peer-to-peer model.

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Barbara McClenathan

Our Process of Working with a Client

Learn how Surgical Directions partners with you to reduce costs and increase revenue using peer-to-peer leadership and process expertise coupled with actionable data analytics. [00:00:00.00] [AUDIO LOGO] [00:00:07.68] Project get started and at that point we’ll have calls to identify what would they like us to do, what are the challenges within the hospital, where

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