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Paediatric anaesthesia · Jul 2013
Utilizing integrated facility design to improve the quality of a pediatric ambulatory surgery center.
- Nicole Pelly and Brian Zeallear.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA 98145-5005, USA. nicole.pelly@seattlechildrens.org
- Paediatr Anaesth. 2013 Jul 1;23(7):634-8.
AimThe aim was to use Integrated Facility Design (IFD) to design a surgery center that enhances the delivery of health care by developing processes that provide highly efficient patient, family, and provider flows while adding value and utilizing costly resources effectively.BackgroundIntegrated Facility Design is an adaptation of the Toyota 3P (Production, Preparation, Process) Program. The goal of IFD is to accelerate development time and lower start-up costs.ResultsThe use of IFD produced a savings of $30 million in project costs and enabled a completion date 3.5 months ahead of schedule. The designed patient flow processes resulted in dramatic improvements in patient, family, and provider throughput.ConclusionsThe use of IFD in the design of a pediatric ambulatory clinic and surgery resulted in significant cost savings and improved clinical efficiency.© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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