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$6M
saved
in St. Luke’s operating costs
through GE’s Patient Care
Capacity Management
Solution
“Through these efforts we’ll
be able to operate at higher
occupancy, and we can
improve patient experience.”
—DR. PEG VAN BREE,
ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL
Healthy Improvements in Hospital Operations
GE’s Patient Care Capacity Management Solution helps hospitals find ways
to provide patients with better care—faster and more cost-effectively.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, a 650-bed teaching hospital
with more than 30,000 admissions a year, is using GE Healthcare’s advi-
sory services and AgileTrac™ software to improve capacity utilization and
enhance the patient experience. GE’s Performance Solutions group uses
proprietary simulation models to design operational care pathways that
balance supply and demand and advance patient care. The GE–St. Luke’s
team has used these designs to optimize surgical capacity and efficiency,
streamline bed assignment, and improve discharge planning. Less than two
years into this effort, the hospital has freed operating room capacity for
750 more patients each year, reduced average length of stay by approxi-
mately half a day, and saved more than $6 million in operating costs.
PICTURED: Angelle Rhemann, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital
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