Faced with rising surgical demand and limited operating room capacity, Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System turned to AI-powered strategies to achieve a 16% increase in staffed room utilization, allowing the team to  perform 1,600 additional surgical cases. During a recent webinar hosted by Becker’s Healthcare and LeanTaaS, Wesley Hart, MD, anesthesiologist at MultiCare’s Tacoma General Hospital, and Chris Hunt, MBA, MSHA, BSN, RN, CSSM, NEA-BC, associate vice president of perioperative services at MultiCare Health System, explained how end-to-end orchestration and governance reform drove this success without added costs to staff or facilities. Mr. Hunt is slated to present on this work at the upcoming Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit (September 16-7, 2025).

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