Lives being saved and bodies being mended within the operating room certainly represent an essential service in healthcare, but a growing number of providers are accomplishing their missions while monitoring, managing and improving their expenses. The OR may be a revenue generator for a healthcare organization, but that function also comes at great costs, making Surgical Services an expense center, too. Some forward-thinking Surgical Services teams are narrowing the gap between revenues and expenses within their facilities. Might that be your team? You won’t know unless you nominate your team for HPN's 2022 Surgical Performance Excellence in Supply Chain award.
Deadline: December 19
Entries will be evaluated on elements disclosed in writing or provided in the following 4 areas:
Process Innovation and Productivity – How the department managed day-to-day operations for patients, including the use of information technology and performance improvement management processes (e.g., supply chain and workflow) to improve efficiency and productivity. How has the department increased throughput, improved service levels, and enhanced quality, cost savings, and patient benefits?
Teamwork – How the staff members (e.g., doctors and nurses) communicate, cooperate and work together with physicians and surgeons that have privileges to practice as well as with Sterile Processing and Supply Chain professionals so the department operates more effectively and efficiently.
Financial/Operational Cost Savings – How the department participates in product evaluations, contracting, purchasing, distribution, inventory management, consulting and facilitation to control and manage expenses. How specifically the department has reduced non-labor and labor expenses to maintain a healthy bottom line for the organization, including increased productivity, improved service levels and fewer errors.
Comprehensive Strategic Planning – How the department efficiently and intelligently evaluates clinical procedures and service lines for outcomes and how it evaluates technology – either directly or with Supply Chain – to ensure the ongoing and future viability and reliability of the organization as a surgical provider.
There are no limits on the length of your entry, but please provide quantitative support for any claims made.
A judging panel of respected Supply Chain and Surgical Services professionals from across the country, as well as selected experts on our editorial advisory board and our HPN editorial staff will evaluate each nomination.
For the nomination, highlight specific, measurable achievements and goals over the past year. Also include your name, telephone number, number of full-time equivalents, scope of responsibilities, and number of beds at the facility.
To qualify nominees MUST comply with the following rules:
- Only nominations submitted exclusively and originally to HPN and not to any other publication or association awards for any aspect of Surgical Services (inpatient or outpatient), will be considered. If you plan to submit or have submitted your case study as a nomination to other organizations (in print or online) in addition to HPN, we ask that you make a choice between HPN and those other organizations.
- All nominations must focus on team-driven contributions and results more heavily than outsourced/purchased services to consultants, distributors, GPOs, manufacturers and software companies. Basically, emphasize what your team has accomplished over what a third-party vendor did for you.
- But you must share with us relevant details on how some of your supply and service partners (manufacturers, distributors, GPOs, software companies and consultants) have contributed to your group’s development, growth and success. What did each of these key vendor partners do for/with you that mattered? Brag about what makes each of them useful and how they help /have helped your team succeed. Please identify each supplier/service company by name and include a sentence or two on what each did.
- All nominated organizations must be willing to share information regarding surgical volumes, annual performance and production details including number of instruments processed.
- Finally, all nominations submitted to HPN become the property of HPN for use in editorial and promotional purposes in perpetuity and shall not be submitted or used anywhere else for any reason without the expressed written consent of HPN’s publisher.
IMPORTANT: ONCE AN ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN HONORED AND PROFILED FOR THIS AWARD IT IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE RENOMINATED.
Document your accomplishments and submit to [email protected].
Deadline: December 19
Winners Circle:
2022 - Lehigh Valley Health Network
Honorable Mention: McLeod Health
