Today, I’d like to provide more details on our partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Optimization (IHO). The IHO is a non-profit organization focused on research, education and service. It will support work already underway to improve patient outcomes and experience as part of the Alberta Surgical Initiative (ASI).

The focus of this work is on process improvement in the larger AHS acute care sites that provide scheduled and unscheduled surgical care. We’re looking to build capacity within our sites and make improvements to operational management, including how we handle variations in patient flow.

Joining me to tell us more about IHO and some of the success we’ve seen through the ASI are:

Joining the AHS Vlog to tell us more are:

• Stacey Litvinchuk, Senior Program Officer, Provincial Surgery Utilization, ASI.
• Kevin Gerrits, Program Director, Provincial Surgery Utilization, ASI.

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