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Accreditation Dings - August 2013 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Page 17 IDEAS THAT WORK WHAT GETS MEASURED GETS DONE Improve Your First-Case Start Times We publish our daily on-time first-case starts and the reason for delays in an area that all staff and physicians can see, including a Pareto chart that lists the reasons for the delay. It has totally created a culture of being on time. Lynette Wilkos-Prostran Weiss Memorial Hospital Chicago, Ill. lynette.wilkos@aol.com TRAFFIC JAM When the first surgical case of the day starts late, it delays subsequent cases.

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