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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Read Case Study (pdf) |
Moving this activity
to the hands of materials personnel has
freed up the nurse's time to do nursing
related activities (direct patient care),
eliminated incorrect orders and reduced
labor costs, and we are able to maintain
lower on-hand quantities without experiencing
stock outs."
When we combined the
anesthesia workroom and the OR workroom,
not only did we free up space for two new
operating rooms but we were able to decrease
the inventory value more than half.
At the same time, materials
services took over the restocking of the
clean core, OR corridors, and all operating
rooms. This enabled us to transfer one fte
to materials for case cart picking."
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-June E. Smith,
Projects Coordinator, Perioperative Services |
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