

Operating Room Design Assistance
OR Design Focuses on Support Resources, Patient, Material & Staffing Flows
Operating Room Design Assistance
OR Design Focuses on Support Resources, Patient, Material & Staffing Flows
The design of a perioperative facility can either contribute to operating room efficiency or challenge the cost-effective delivery of surgical care. A well-designed operating room suite requires emphasis on patient, material, and staffing flows as well as the integration of support resources. Operating room design and capacity requirements must consider future growth, market expansion and surgical discipline-specific facility requirements.
A well-designed perioperative facility can have many benefits for a hospital or ambulatory service center. A good perioperative facility design can minimize avoidable and expensive late stage facility construction costs, increase the efficiency for professionals, customers and materials, support the planned functions as intended, and improve patient safety and satisfaction. Some of the key elements of a well-designed perioperative facility include adequate preadmissions, preoperative processing, operating room support areas, equipment and supply storage for surgical suites, and postanesthesia care unit requirements for phase I and phase II recovery.
The design should also consider the differences in planning for these perioperative support areas in a large hospital venue versus an ambulatory surgery center venue. A well-designed perioperative facility can help an organization achieve its goals of delivering high-quality health care services in a cost-effective and timely manner.


Inadequate operating room design can result in:

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.

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.
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
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.
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.