Driving Discharge Efficiency: How One Health System Transformed Through Innovation

Driving Discharge Efficiency: How One Health System Transformed Through Innovation

Discover how Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System redesigned its discharge processes to improve patient flow and create capacity across the organization. In this session, learn how the team used data-driven insights and predictive tools to identify bottlenecks, prioritize discharges, and streamline care coordination. Their journey offers practical strategies for nurse leaders seeking to enhance throughput, reduce delays, and lead systemwide transformation.

Learning Outcomes:

1. The challenges Sarasota Memorial faced in managing capacity and throughput due to growing demand and limited insights to upcoming bottlenecks
2. How Sarasota Memorial implemented iQueue for Inpatient Flow to automate discharge prioritization and patient predictions

Presenters

Susan Grimwood, DNP, APRN-C, Executive Director of Logistics, Capacity and Patient Throughput, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System

Susan Grimwood is currently the Executive Director of Logistics, Capacity and Patient Throughput at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System. She is an APRN with extensive experience in dermatology, plastic surgery, neurology, and medical surgical/cardiac care.
At Sarasota Memorial, she has been instrumental in leading logistics operations and managing patient flow, achieving substantial improvements in patient throughput while maintaining high quality care.

About the Sponsor

LeanTaaS transforms health system, hospital, and infusion center operations through software and services that combine lean principles, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and machine learning. The company’s software and services are being used by 200 health systems in 1,200+ hospitals and centers across the nation, which rely on the iQueue cloud-based solutions to increase patient access, decrease wait times, reduce healthcare delivery costs, and improve revenue. LeanTaaS is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with an office in Charlotte, NC. For more information about LeanTaaS, please visit https://leantaas.com/, and connect on LinkedIn.