Nominate Your Facility and Staff for an OR Excellence Award

If you work with a team of surgical all-stars, it’s time to boast about their contributions to your facility’s success by nominating them for an OR Excellence Award. To enter, choose the category or categories where your facility excels and share as much detail as possible about how you go above-and-beyond in that area. We’ll determine the winning facilities in each category and feature them in our September issue. To top it off, we'll host the 7 winners at OR Excellence this October in Bonita Springs, Fla., where they'll be recognized and celebrated at an awards luncheon. Good luck!

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* 1. Financial Management. Have a smart way to cut staffing costs, get patients to pay on the day of surgery, save on supplies or maximize profits? Share your strategies here.

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* 2. Environmental Stewardship. Do you reprocess single-use devices? Has your facility recently gone paper-free? Do you repurpose blue wrap? Explain the many ways you’re limiting waste and going green.

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* 3. Pain Control. If your anesthesia providers are multimodal masters, share how they keep your patients comfortable after surgery and ready for timely discharges.

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* 4. Patient Safety. From holding true-to-life safety drills to using effective checklists to enhancing pre-op time outs, we want to hear about all the creative and effective ways you protect those in your care.

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* 5. Patient Satisfaction. Thank you cards, patient warming and PONV prevention are just a few ways to make sure patients appreciate the care they receive. How do you guarantee patients wouldn't hesitate to recommend your facility to friends and family?

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* 6. SSI Prevention. Share how prepping protocols, instrument reprocessing practices and environmental cleaning policies contribute to your low infection rate.

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* 7. Staff Safety. Do you use safety sharps, smoke evacuators and ergonomically friendly devices? Tell us everything you do to protect your surgical team from harm.

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