About Surgical Directions

FOUNDING MEMBERS

David Young

MD, Managing Partner

Tom Blasco

MD, MS, Managing Partner

Jeff Peters

President and Chief Executive Officer

End-to-end Results

Our approach begins by focusing on the culture of your perioperative service line.  We strive to  create a collaborative team with shared interests and ownership of the process. Each member’s practical expertise and insights are critical to creating a bridge from problems and frustrations to solutions and efficiency. The results are impressive.

In the past five years, Surgical Directions has changed the culture, the environment, and improved the bottom line for more 200 clients nationwide; from community-based hospitals to large quaternary academic centers.

Our Principles

  • Build a collaborative culture among senior administration, anesthesia, nursing, and surgeons
  • Engage front-line staff in the change process utilizing Lean Methodology
  • View surgeons as key customers
  • OR success tied to  a service-oriented, clinically strong anesthesia department
  • Focus on client-defined measurements of performance based upon “best practice”
  • Apply a business-focus to the OR
  • Create a strong surgical services leadership/governance model
  • Implement enabling technology
  • Increase surgeon, staff, and patient satisfaction

Our Advantage

Depth and Strength: Surgical Directions’ team leaders are clinically-active and nationally recognized anesthesiologists; experienced OR nurse executives; and perioperative strategic planning business executives who work in a collaborative manner, like a well-run OR.

Extensive, Proven Experience: Surgical Directions’ team experience covers all aspects of surgical and procedural services including anesthesia, OR Leadership, strategic planning, medical staff development strategy planning, business development, revenue cycle management, material management, sterile processing, and information technology. Our experience enables us to tackle all challenges facing today’s OR.

Inside OR Knowledge: Surgical Directions’ team members know what makes ORs run efficiently; we’re in our own ORs daily. We also know it takes a collaborative team to balance and blend the interests of the surgeons, anesthesiologists, clinical staff, administration, and patients to create a well-run OR.

Strong Physician Rapport: Buy-in is key to success. Our team typically includes clinically-active surgeons and anesthesiologists, so your physicians can relate to what we have to say and offer. As a result, your physicians will be more willing to collaborate on solutions and implementation.

Tailored Solutions: We know our clients are unique. We consider our clients' culture and/or limitations and provide time-tested solutions and strategies for implementation that take culture, facility, staffing, and geographical limitations into account; from rural to urban, from community-based to large academic medical centers, we have solutions to your specific needs.