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Cut Turnaround Times for Patient Transport

  • Keeping gurneys and equipment where they are needed, and having staff speak with patients during transport
  • Cleaning and making the gurneys with sheets and blankets before they are needed
  • Designating a staff member to ensure equipment is placed where needed

What can your team do to make the best use of your "down time"?

 

A Quicker and Safer Trip, Door to Door

  • Coordinating transport times with other departments, and ensuring labs and meds are ready
  • Ordering new, wider and more accessible chairs to make it easier to move patients
  • Creating a new and dedicated transporter position to faciliate trips

What can your team do to work effectively with other teams? What else could your team do to better understand patients' needs? 

 

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PPT

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1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a Mid-Atlantic States team that reduced patient transport times. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente. 

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