How Houston Methodist Used its Block Schedule to 3x One Surgeon's Daily Cases

Surgical teams count on the block schedule to manage time, space, and resources, and to drive coordination. Houston Methodist's block schedule had taken on epic proportions but was hiding underutilization and time mismanagement.

Apella's insights and analytics proved that, when it comes to OR operations, even basic processes can be improved without sacrifice. And the new way of visualizing the block schedule including more utilization calculations at the planning stage led to even more successful experiments.