Interim Operating Room Management Consulting | Surgery Management Improvement Group
Interim Operating Room Management Consulting | Surgery Management Improvement Group

Interim Operating Room Management

Successfully Bridge the Gap to Manage Change During
Hospital Leadership Turnover

Interim Operating Room Management

Successfully Bridge the Gap to Manage Change During Hospital Leadership Turnover

Interim Operating Room Management is important for hospitals experiencing leadership turnover because it provides stable management of perioperative services or sterile processing for hospitals that have recently experienced leadership turnover or recognize the need to support and mentor the current or potential director. Interim management can help maintain continuity of care and ensure that the hospital continues to operate efficiently during the transition period. An interim director can provide guidance and support to staff members, help identify areas for improvement, and ensure that the hospital is meeting regulatory requirements.

Hospitals can face several challenges when experiencing leadership turnover. One of the most common challenges is employee turnover. When a hospital loses a leader, it can lead to job dissatisfaction and patient dissatisfaction, which can increase employee turnover. Burnout is another challenge that hospitals face during leadership turnover as it can lead to high levels of stress among front-line workers, which can negatively impact the resiliency of hospitals and health systems. This in turn can create an increase in staff turnover with the resulting loss of morale and operational efficiency.

SMI Group provide interim management consulting and programs that can help hospitals avoid costly mistakes that can occur during periods of leadership transition. By providing experienced leadership during this time, hospitals can minimize disruptions to patient care and ensure that they continue to provide high-quality care.

Interim Operating Room Management Consulting | Surgery Management Improvement Group
Interim Operating Room Management Consulting | Surgery Management Improvement Group

Providing Leadership & Stability: Bringing Management into Focus

An interim director provides stable management of perioperative services or sterile processing for hospitals that have recently experienced leadership turnover, or recognize the need to support and mentor the current or potential director. In addition to providing management services, an Operational Program Audit is conducted.

Accelerating Successful Change
Performance of the Operational Program Audit in conjunction with the interim director’s placement accelerates the review and initiation of needed change under the direction of a skilled, trusted manager.

Hospital Interim Management Availability
Interim management is available for the Perioperative Services and Sterile Processing departments.

Avoid Poor Communication & Leadership
Studies have shown that poor leadership in healthcare organizations can increase costs, reduce efficiency and effectiveness, and cause dissatisfaction among staff, ultimately resulting in lower patient satisfaction and society health level

About 20 years’ worth of updates in a very short period of time.

We are all smiles here. Your team accomplished much more than we expected. The interim manager's knowledge and level of experience were perfect for our needs- he was complimentary and giving but very frank with staff- just the type of leader we needed. He was able to get our team members to think about the patient and program and less about themselves. Our sterile processing program is in a completely different place now than when the engagement started-you solidified our program. It is amazing what was accomplished in 3 months. We are highly satisfied...off the chart satisfaction with this engagement.
Mike Festa, Director of Sterile Processing, HealthEast Health System, St. Paul, MN

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Why Choose Surgery Management Improvement (SMI) Group?

Why Choose Surgery Management Improvement (SMI) Group?

The SMI Group’s Principals have worked as senior level executives and vice presidents of hospital management consulting firms including Chi Systems, DJ Sullivan & Associates, and Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc.

  • SMI Group brings you experienced, dedicated clinical and business professionals who care about your hospital management. We will craft a winning strategy to successfully implement change for your organization.
  • The Principals and Founders of the Surgery Management Improvement Group share a combined total of seventy years of experience as hospital management CONSULTANTS.
  • All our consultants are seasoned professionals with perioperative clinical, surgery business, sterile processing, and high-level management experience.
Why Choose Surgery Management Improvement (SMI) Group?
Surgery Management Improvement Group - Operating Room Scheduling Management

Operating Room Scheduling Management

Operating room planning is a complex task where numerous resources must be synchronized in order to achieve efficiency. Surgeon availability, operating team scheduling, patient related information (i.e. estimated operating time, priority and diagnosis), equipment, and support resources must all be carefully orchestrated.

Surgery Management Improvement Group - Anesthesiology Program Consulting

Anesthesiology Program Consulting

A well-defined, coordinated anesthesiology program is essential to a cost and operationally effective, marketable operating room. Areas of evaluation and development expertise include: Program Evaluation and Design, Anesthesiologist/CRNA/ Resident Care Team Process Evaluation, Surgeon Nursing Interrelationship

Surgery Management Improvement Group - Succession Planning for the Operating Room

Operating Room Succession Planning

Use our tools and assistance to plan your operating room management succession. Our process identifies key roles, the management capabilities of existing staff, and cultivates qualified internal candidates to become superior leaders for tomorrow’s perioperative environment.

Surgery Management Improvement Group - Ambulatory Surgery Center & Program Development

Ambulatory Surgery Center & Program Development

SMI Group provides hospital and surgery center consulting services that provide ambulatory surgery program development & management solutions. We help you retain & grow Ambulatory Market Share while improving expected surgery outcomes.