February 1, 2014
First case on-time starts soar after rapid process improvement training
In 2011, fewer than half of all first cases at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, were starting on time. That meant subsequent cases were also delayed, with overtime costs exceeding $500,000 a year.
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