Driving Profitable Surgery Growth
Webinar

Another distance learning opportunity brought to you by MHA

Program Overview

This webinar will profile how top performing hospitals have been driving profitable surgical growth in contradiction to national trends. This session is specifically designed for organizations searching for effective ways to fully leverage their existing OR capacity to maximize bottom line impact.

Objectives:

• Manage perioperative operations with the goal to become the "provider of choice" for surgeons in their competitive market.
• Make informed investments to drive profitable growth.
• Leverage procedural level benchmarks to proactively identify improvement opportunities and build the case for change.
• Enfranchise physicians through self service access to scorecards profiling block performance, supply cost, and referral trends.
• Hardwire efficiency gains to smooth the OR schedule, create usable prime-time capacity, and optimize block performance.
• Assess current performance against best practices tactics.

AUDIENCE

CFO, COO, Surgical Services, OR Directors, Materials Managers/Purchasing

FACULTY

Graham McLaughlin is the Partnership Director for the Advisory Board's Clinical Operations vertical. In this capacity, he is focused on educating members on current research trends and opportunities for operational and financial improvements in the surgical terrain.

During his tenure at the Advisory Board, Mr. McLaughlin has also served as the Global Partnership Director for Surgery Compass members in the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as the Dedicated Advisor Team Lead for domestic Spend Compass membership.

Prior to joining the Advisory Board, Mr. McLaughlin worked in hospitals across the country as a revenue cycle consultant. He also has strategy consulting experience with IBM, Microsoft, and other Fortune 500 firms in the United States and Europe.

Mr. McLaughlin graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina with a dual degree in management and psychology.

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