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Tierney Dodge

Sr. Customer Success Manager

As Sr. Customer Success Manager, Tierney partners closely with Apella users to help perioperative teams achieve their goals for OR intelligence and productivity. She works in tandem with customers throughout their Apella journey, from scoping goals and product adoption to achieving ROI and informing new solutions that benefit surgical teams, health system managers, and patients alike.

Articles by Tierney Dodge

A Brief History of OR Turnover Solutions (and Their Shortcomings)

Historically, OR managers have prescribed three strategies to improve and speed up turnovers: the extra bodies solution, the pit crew solution, and the vertical integration solution. Because of the poor outcomes and, often, worse problems that result from some of the legacy approaches to improving OR turnover time, there’s still a need for new solutions. In addition to there typically being too little budget and too little time to address turnover inefficiencies, there has historically also been way too few metrics to develop meaningful guidance on what to improve and how.