Operating Room Succession Planning Consultants - DDS Surgery Management Improvement Group
Operating Room Succession Planning Consultants - DDS Surgery Management Improvement Group

Operating Room Succession Planning

Creating a Pipeline of Internal Leadership Development

Operating Room Succession Planning

Creating a Pipeline of Internal Leadership Development

The Surgery Management Improvement Group Inc. provides the tools and assistance to plan for operating room succssion planning. 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.

Helping Meet Today’s Needs for Surgery Leadership Development

A severe shortage of experienced, surgery leadership is increasingly evident throughout the country. Accomplished Operating Room Directors have been retiring or leaving the field to pursue other career opportunities. Reduced margins have forced hospitals to “flatten” their organizations, limiting opportunities for focused, individualized leadership potential and skill development.

Surgery managers typically evolve from the ranks of exceptional clinicians. Top clinical performers often have the potential to demonstrate a similarly high level of expertise in management, but require significant preparation for these new roles and responsibilities. Surgery administrators frequently fail or give up prematurely during this role transition due to the lack of appropriate preparation, administrative support, definitive career planning and development. Additionally, the critical shortage of nursing professionals feeding the pool of young managerial talent has been exacerbated by the absence of skilled leaders to guide their professional growth.

Operating Room Succession Planning Consultants - DDS Surgery Management Improvement Group
Operating Room Succession Planning Consultants - DDS Surgery Management Improvement Group

In response to this deficiency in perioperative leadership development, the Surgery Management Improvement Group has designed a comprehensive program that will provide the following:

  • A baseline assessment of the overall perioperative organization including leadership skills, competencies, potential and strategic direction;
  • An audit of the existing surgery program to quantify point-of-departure performance indicators (dashboard) and establish a template of activities required to achieve positive program change;
  • Identification of significant issues, deficiencies and opportunities for leadership enhancement;
  • Design of a customized leadership development program which addresses identified learning needs of the organization, individuals and leadership team;
  • Facilitation of day-to-day communication among all groups involved in perioperative processes;
  • Regular administrative feedback regarding the progress of individual(s) leadership development.

Most thorough, yet easy to understand improvement plans I have ever seen from any consulting group . . .

SMIG has provided us with one of the most thorough, yet easy to understand improvement plans I have ever seen from any consulting group throughout my 17 year career in healthcare. From a comprehensive interview process with staff, physicians, and administration & critical data analysis to actual on-site involvement monitoring our total patient, staff and physician experience, SMIG engages at every level to understand how we work, thus providing us with a very useable tool to improve our efficiency, better utilize our resources and most importantly, improve the quality of our patient care experience.
Scott Raynes, President & CEO, NorthCrest Medical Center, Springfield, TN

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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.