Mayo Clinic Consulting Edge

Over the last ten years, the advent of electronic medical records has dramatically changed the nature of healthcare practitioners’ work. As these health records are optimized and re-engineered, changes to provider schedules may be required. In today’s podcast join Spencer Richards, Health Systems Engineer and host Jodi Grimm as they illustrate how non-visit care time … Continue reading Cracking the Code on Patient Wait Times for an Express-Care Practice →

In today’s special edition of Mayo Clinic Consulting Edge we will introduce a significant organizational change for Mayo Clinic.  The departments of Management Engineering and Consulting (ME&C) and Planning Services are combining forces to help enable and accelerate the organization’s strategic vision.  We are joined today by Janine Kamath and Steve McNeil for an extended … Continue reading Stronger Together: Integration of Management Engineering and Consulting and Planning Services →

As the COVID-19 Pandemic entered the U.S. and the nation’s fears began to surge, Mayo Clinic nurses were asked by the Hospital Incident Command Center to stand up a nurse line specifically for COVID. The COVID Nurse Line went live on March 11th, 2020 with a unit of about 40 nurses but quickly expanded to … Continue reading Turning on a Dime: The Story of the COVID-19 Nurse Line →

The Mayo Clinic Biospecimens Accessioning and Processing (BAP) Lab, which has facilities at all three Mayo Clinic sites, has been involved in various projects which were supported by Management Engineering and Consulting. The mission of the BAP lab is to provide world-class Biorepositories and state-of-the-art Biospecimen Processing and Storage with a focus on quality and … Continue reading Biospecimens Accessioning and Processing Lab →

Even though employee mental health was a large topic of discussion during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayo Clinic identified this as a concern beforehand. The pandemic created new levels of stress and anxiety, with employee needs becoming more complex in this continuously changing environment. National data found that symptoms of anxiety disorders and depressive disorders have … Continue reading It’s Okay Not to be Okay: Mental Health for Mayo Employees & Learners →

After smaller rural clinics were closed due to COVID-19, this left a need to provide healthcare to these communities in a creative way. A 38ft customized commercial Winnebago RV was built to bridge the gap. This self-sustained unit provides patients with a direct access to Mayo Clinic and their providers without having to travel long … Continue reading Clinic in a Winnebago →

With the unpredictability of COVID-19, and impending winter months of the Midwest, Management Engineering and Consulting was tasked with helping to transform our current drive-up COVID testing models and prepare the southeast health system sites for winter. With these sites situated in the heart of the Midwest’s infamous cold and snowy winters, the teams had to move quickly to develop and implement a plan. The … Continue reading COVID-19 Test Site Winterization →

Emergency-Triage-Treat-Transport, or ET3, is an initiative with a goal to reduce the total cost of care while improving experience and outcomes by reimbursing ambulance services for providing treatment on scene through telemedicine or providing transportation to alternative destinations like urgent care. Management Engineering and Consulting was brought in to help obtain the electronic tools and … Continue reading ET3 →

Research shows that patients with a longer length of stay have poorer outcomes and longer recovery times after their joint surgery. Additionally, the Mayo Clinic Health Systems market for total joint surgery is highly competitive and their length of stay was higher than the competition at 1.84 days in late 2018. As of February 2021 … Continue reading Enhanced Recovery After Surgery →

In early spring 2020, COVID-19 cases were rapidly increasing across the US which resulted in shortages of beds, staff and equipment. Personal protective equipment, or PPE, are required for both staff and patient safety and if these were unavailable, there would be critical limitations to the level of care Mayo Clinic needs to provide for … Continue reading Mask Reprocessing →