geons stop griping and
next month's staffing
schedule is set. I'm an
anesthesiologist and the
medical director of a
small surgery center, so I
get that the amount of
hats you wear outnum-
ber the hours in a day,
and the last person you
want to hear from is
someone who's threaten-
ing to make your to-do
list even longer. But
what if I told you that
the following 7 creative
solutions help save my
facility between $50,000
and $100,000 a year. Do I
have your attention now?
Put a scrub tech in charge of supplies
If you don't have the time or patience to monitor supply
usage in the OR, then you have no idea which items are
actually being used during cases. You assume everyone has
the supplies they need, but what you might not see is that the surgical
team throws out half of the items contained in your procedure packs.
Why are you paying for those items? And why isn't that kit cus-
tomized? To save on supplies, you need input from someone who's in
the OR on a daily basis. Why not make a trusted scrub tech your
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• INSIDE INFORMATION Eugene Zamora, a surgical tech and materials manager at Bay
Surgery Center in Oakland, keeps close watch on supply use in the OR.
Thomas
Durick,
MD
