Detroit's Harper University Hospital Tackles OR Expansion, Improvement

Detroit Medical Center's Harper University Hospital will start a project to improve its operating rooms in November, beginning with infrastructure expansions and then looking to improve efficiencies with lean management techniques, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.

The project is one of the first funded by the hospital's new owner, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems. The funds will be used to expand the hospital ORs, invest in new technology and double the number of preoperative and recovery room beds, among other initiatives. The project will add LED lighting and robots for microsurgery and increase OR size from 350-510 square feet to 800-1,200 square feet.

Harper University Hospital has scored 50-60 percent for patient and physician satisfaction over the past few years; with the opening of the new OR suite in 2013, hospital leaders expect the scores to jump to the mid-90 percentiles.

Once the OR construction project is completed, the hospital will start an OR process improvement project to increase efficiency. The project will tackle bottlenecks that occur while patients wait for a bed in recovery and help surgical teams work together to keep cases moving quickly.

Read the Crain's Detroit Business report on Harper University Hospital.

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