Does your anesthesia team deliver value?

Anesthesiology plays a critical role across all facets of perioperative and procedural services. With clinical expertise in pre-, intra-, and post-operative care, your anesthesia team has the potential to build strong networks with surgeons, nurses, and other peers in perioperative services and facility operations. These ties can enhance your existing surgical services to save time, reduce costs, and improve your facility’s brand among surgeons and patients.

Strong anesthesia leadership at the helm of collaborative anesthesia teams is an untapped resource for hospitals and health systems to improve care and drive growth. In assessing whether your existing anesthesia team is providing you with optimal services, you should consider the following outcomes as basic expectations, not value-adds.

Participating in pre-op assessments and optimization to reduce preventable case cancellations.

If your anesthesia team is addressing patient readiness for the first time on the day of surgery, it may already be too late. A proactive and experienced anesthesia team helps its hospital partner maximize performance and increase profitability by ensuring patients are ready for surgery well in advance of the scheduled date. Forward-thinking processes in pre-op assessment and optimization result in more dependable on-time starts, reduced length of stay, reduced readmissions, and increased quality and patient safety.  

Leading a multidisciplinary approach to patient care from pre-op to post-operative, including pain management.

Creating a comprehensive patient care plan is a collaboration between anesthesiology and surgical services. Anesthesiology brings a unique skill set in areas of medicine such as risk stratification and pharmacology, which leads to safe and effective individualized patient care plans. By being both innovative and current in this area, the anesthesia team can support greater productivity, lower costs, maximize value, and streamline perioperative care. In addition, this approach can lead to improved satisfaction and reduced burnout for surgical and recovery unit colleagues.                       

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