Jul 13, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
As hospitals face increasing financial pressures, workforce shortages, and growing demands for surgical efficiency, perioperative performance has never been more critical. Yet one of the most…
Angel Martino-HorrallGuest
Daniel MarinoHost
Many hospitals, as they begin to think about their financial performance or focus on creating efficiencies within the hospital and even beyond that, surgical services and what occurs in the OR is critical to their performance.
in many of the organizations that we've worked with over the, you know, probably the last 15 to 20 years, the impact of surgical services, the revenue impact is somewhere around 65 to even 70%.
So it's imperative that the efficiencies of surgical services, of perioperative services, is maximized as much as possible in order for organizations to keep costs down, but also maximize the revenue potential.
So as you think about improving surgical services and perioperative performance, leadership and governance is a critical component and is often an area which is which is overlooked.
A lot of times organizations think about having the directors of nursing drive a lot of the operational processes.
And although that's important, Leadership related to the surgeons and particularly the integration of anesthesia is really a driving force, and especially anesthesia.
And oftentimes their impact, their ability to influence is really underutilized.
And what we found is organizations who are the best in class, who've really optimized perioperative services, have strong integration of their anesthesiologists within all of surgical services.
Many hospitals, as they begin to think about their financial performance or focus on creating efficiencies within the hospital and even beyond that, surgical services and what occurs in the OR is critical to their performance.
in many of the organizations that we've worked with over the, you know, probably the last 15 to 20 years, the impact of surgical services, the revenue impact is somewhere around 65 to even 70%.
So it's imperative that the efficiencies of surgical services, of perioperative services, is maximized as much as possible in order for organizations to keep costs down, but also maximize the revenue potential.
So as you think about improving surgical services and perioperative performance, leadership and governance is a critical component and is often an area which is which is overlooked.
A lot of times organizations think about having the directors of nursing drive a lot of the operational processes.
And although that's important, Leadership related to the surgeons and particularly the integration of anesthesia is really a driving force, and especially anesthesia.
And oftentimes their impact, their ability to influence is really underutilized.
And what we found is organizations who are the best in class, who've really optimized perioperative services, have strong integration of their anesthesiologists within all of surgical services.
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