Patient demand keeps climbing, and the usual response is to add beds or break ground. Sarasota Memorial Health Care System took a different path: it changed how the hospital day is planned and run.
Susan Grimwood, DNP, APRN-C, executive director of logistics, capacity and patient throughput, shares how earlier planning, sharper visibility into demand and clear accountability reshaped daily flow at Sarasota Memorial. What began as a set of operational changes became a repeatable operating model that scaled across the system, with sustained gains in throughput, discharge performance and length of stay.
This on-demand session offers practical insight for leaders managing growing demand while protecting reliability and quality of care.
In this session, you’ll learn:
• How Sarasota Memorial created capacity by redesigning daily operations rather than adding beds
• Why earlier planning and clearer demand visibility change how the hospital day runs
• How prioritization and accountability support more reliable patient flow
• What it takes to sustain and scale operational gains across a system