Creating Value Together: From Bedside to Boardroom

Brian 14:07 “There are some excellent clinicians out there and there are some excellent researchers out there and there’s some excellent operations managers out there. But how often do you find an operations manager who is also pretty, pretty adept at the literature base and applying it clinically? How often do you have a clinician who understands operations and on a regular basis can tie it back to how they’re increasing or decreasing length of stay. And how often do you have researchers who are actively embedded within acute care…but it’s rare to find someone who is an active clinician. An actively publishing, disseminating researcher who is also excellent at clinical operations. And so, being able to pull it all together.”

Kyle 18:15 “one of our chief nursing officers in our system always says the wisdom is at the bedside. And so if we’re trying to decrease length of stay, of course. Brian is an operations economics expert. He can help us model that he could be thinking about. Hey, we need to process map this out. I need to understand what we’re doing. But the clinician might have the secret sauce that says here’s the bottleneck and here’s the problem and them and Brian together can fix it and come up with a potential solution.

And the researcher that the data minded person can say, well, and you know what, if you really want to answer that question, Brian, here’s the data you need to collect or you can’t answer that question, but you can quantify this. And I think that and that’s why all of those levels are important. And it’s important to connect them from top to bottom and side to side.”

Rapid Responses:

If you can have lunch with one person from past history, who would it be?

Brian: “I’m going to go from current history and also past Willie Nelson, who is the star of Texas and poet laureate, and he’s still around for a little bit longer. So I’d love to sit down with him.”

What other podcasts would you recommend to our audience?

Kyle: “The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish”

You know you work in acute care when:

Brian: “When you love things to fall down all around you continuously and that you’re challenged to pick up the pieces and somehow make it better than it was originally.”

Kyle: “I’m going to say when you’re called everything but a therapist, every other profession that can work.”

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Leo Arguelles (LEE-O R-GWELL-IS)

largue2@uic.edu

Twitter @LeoArguellesPT

Ashley Poole

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