Maximizing hospital finanacial impact and emergency department throughput with simulation

Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital (Tucson, Arizona), the Ascension Health Operations Resource Group and FDI Simulation team worked collaboratively to improve hospital flow and increase access to care by implementing process improvements based on simulation that reduced the Emergency Center (EC) length of stay by 7%, increased the EC monthly volume by 5%, increased the inpatient daily census by 20% and improved the hospital net operating mar

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WSC
• Authors: David M. Ferrin, Marty J. Miller, Diana L. McBroom
• Keywords: Ascension Health Operations, EC Monthly Volume, FDI Simulation Team, Modeling And Simulation, WSC 2007