Benefits of the Rapid Recovery^® Program

Benefits for Patients

• Exceptional care delivered by a specialized orthopedic team
• Enhanced patient experience
  • Joint Care Coordinator
  • Physical Therapy
  • Patient education
• Reduced length of stay^1-3
• Family Involvement

Benefits for Surgeons

The Rapid Recovery^® Program will enable you to focus on your surgery. It will do this by:

• Streamlining the process, making it more efficient, more consistent and more predictable.
• Increasing patient satisfaction by speeding up treatment and enabling improved quality of care.
• Ensuring that you are up to date with the latest developments and techniques in your field.

The Program will generate ongoing improvement by:

• Improving patient and stakeholder satisfaction, leading to word-of-mouth recommendations that enhance your reputation.
• Creating a continuous process of improvement, resulting in potential new referrals from other areas, and many more improvements into the future.
• Reduced OR time and length of stay.^1-4
• Reduced readmission rates.^{2, 3}

Your patients will love it:

• Exceptional care delivered by a specialized orthopedic team.
• Family Involvement.
• Clear and well presented information about the surgery and recovery.

Benefits for Hospital Management

The Rapid Recovery^® Program will have a positive effect on:

• Your hospital’s cost structure
• The quality of care offered by your hospital, and consequently
• Your hospital’s reputation.

The Program will enable your hospital to cut its costs by at least 20% because:

• People and resources are deployed more efficiently
• More patients can be dealt with in the same time
• Fewer overnight stays are required
• Fewer patients need to be re-admitted.^1,2

The Program will enable you to enhance your hospital’s reputation because:

• It demonstrates that your hospital is systematically working to achieve continuous improvement in the quality of its orthopaedic care
• It increases patient satisfaction³, leading to higher ratings for your hospital in evaluations and valuable word-of-mouth recommendations.