Clinical Component

Navigating the Clinical Component

  • No hearts & no heads, no spines, and very little trauma
  • Focus primarily on Ortho, OB, and General Surgery
  • Efficient Teams - 10 Minute Turn Over Times for Endoscopies & Ortho
  • Share surgical cases evenly with 4 CRNA’s - Top-notch surgery center on campus
  • Orthopedic heavy making up about 40% of the practice.  Robust TJs program
  • General Surgery roughly 20% 
  • Bread and Butter roughly 20% 
  • OB / GYN roughly 20%, avg 250 deliveries a year
  • Ultrasound guided blocks
  • Davinci Robot Cases
  • Corey Machine
  • Centric EMR
  • Approx. 200 surgical cases per month – about 250 births per year and growing
  • Support from OHSU telemedicine for stroke, ICU, and pediatrics
  • ER, Pulmonologist, or Hospitalist will intubate ICU patients

Scheduling 

Monday through Friday work week (40 hours) on Avg. 7am-5pm with breaks

Call

  • 1 weekday a week, call schedule is from 5pm-7am
  • 1 weekend block every 6 weekends, call starts at 5pm Friday until Monday AM
  • Post call day off

The Surgery Service Nurse Manager – does all the scheduling.
The team has bi-monthly surgical provider meetings where they discuss their needs and also review utilization data to determine how much surgical time is needed.
Surgeries are scheduled up to a month or more out.  

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