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In today’s environment with pressure to contain healthcare expenditure, combined with increasing physician demands, you need to find ways to deliver more with less.
In answer to these challenges, what will be your approach? On which lever will you act?
As your partner, bioMérieux can help you look at your lab from a different angle. Our Workflow Optimization Services combines management techniques (LEAN Six Sigma, Kaizen, 5S, …) and our microbiology expertise to enable you to:
Optimize resources:
Manage growing workloads:
Great workflow = clinician satisfaction:
Enhance human resource management:
Together we will analyze your lab structure and design a roadmap to optimize your laboratory workflow:
Diagnostic: a complete lab performance assessment
Action plan - Develop a Lean road map tailored to your lab, with a focus on:
Implement your road map
Partnership - Leverage indicators
Lab performance improvement
Lead-time issues often cause inadequate workload/capacity.
We leverage our expertise to guide you to a more streamlined workload, quicker time to results, increased productivity.
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The Holy Spirit Health System microbiology lab in Pennsylvania, USA, was struggling with the same staffing challenges many microbiology labs face every day – an aging workforce with a shortage of skilled resources to replace them. The lab needed a solution to elevate productivity, orient staff on value-added tasks and compress time-to-result.
Like all labs, the Florida Hospital System’s centralized lab faces significant challenges, including the constant pressure to do more with less, decrease turnaround times (TATs), and contribute to decreased length of hospital stays. In addition to these, the lab receives batch samples from a geographically large and populous area. All plating is done locally at each hospital, batched and shuttled to Orlando. They needed to find techniques to improve process and reduce turnaround times.
The Sunrise Medical Laboratory in Hicksville, New York is a large reference laboratory that provides microbiology testing for many private physicians and nursing homes, as well as some area hospitals. Sunrise faced the challenge of meeting ever-increasing demand from clients for faster turnaround times (TATs) without increasing costs or compromising quality. Physician clients were particularly concerned about TATS on the weekend – meaning the Sunrise staff routinely faced a huge workload at the beginning of each week. Unable to hire additional staff, lab management sought innovative methods and processes for improving lab efficiency and optimizing workflow.