FEATURED TEAM: Laboratory, Anaheim Medical Center Doing blood work in time for morning rounds

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FEATURED TEAM Laboratory, Anaheim Medical
CenterDoing blood work in time for morning rounds
RESULTS Between August and November 2010, blood
work was processed by 9 a.m. 93 percent of the
time, up 20 points from when the project started
in February 2010.
WHAT THEY DO To speed up the processing of blood
draws

• Lab assistants pick up blood specimens on the 6th
  and 7th floors of the hospital at 6 a.m., rather
  than having a runner deliver them.
• Lab assistants drop off specimens every half-hour
  throughout the day, instead of a runner
  delivering them.
• Clinical lab scientists from other lab department
  help process blood in the morning.
• Clinical lab scientists start work at 6 a.m.
  instead of 9 a.m. on the weekends.

Read more about the teams work and other
successful practices on the Labor Management
website, www.LMPartnership.org.