HASC is seeking hospitals to participate in the Southern California Operating Room Excellence (SCORE) Initiative, an intensive, nine-month program focused on improving the culture and operational efficiencies within the perioperative services area of hospitals.

SCORE is a results-oriented program designed to give hospitals the practical tools and skills needed for creating and sustaining effective, high-reliability processes within operating rooms. Through skills enhancement and the implementation of Lean improvement tools, SCORE increases levels of patient safety and reliability while reducing operational costs.

Participation in the SCORE initiative gives facilities the ability to identify and correct operational inefficiencies as well as create and sustain a lasting culture of patient safety. With a projected 5-to-1 return on investment, the SCORE initiative will provide participants with targets, benchmarks, assessments, educational and best-practice networking sessions, on-site training workshops and consultative support.

Included in the project are:

• Six general learning and educational sessions for hospital teams
• A one-week on-site analysis and consultative program for each participating facility
• On-site Crew Resource Management in Healthcare Training Workshop
• Human Factors in Healthcare Workshop participant kits
• Leadership in the OR High Reliability Webinar Training Series
• High Reliability Learning Series Library Reference Set
• Creation of local OR Process Improvement Roadmap Tool

Participation in the nine-month program is available to HASC members at a rate of $45,000 per hospital. This represents a 60 percent savings for HASC members.