Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Feb
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All of those problems originate upstream.
And all of those problems limit what's possible downstream.
This is why we always start.
with SPD when we do perioperative turnarounds, not because SPD is the most glamorous function, not because it's where the money is most visible, but because it's the constraint.
And the theory of constraints tells us improving anything other than the constraint doesn't improve the system's performance.
It just looks better.
You can optimize the OR to perfection, but if SPD can't reliably deliver instruments, the OR will never perform at its potential.
Fix SPD first, then harvest the downstream gains.
Now, here's what gets interesting.
The SPD directors sitting in the leadership meeting, they're not hearing what you're hearing.
They're not seeing what you're seeing.
Their metrics look fine.
Turnaround times are acceptable.
Volume is being processed.
Productivity ratios are in range from where they sit.
The operation is working.
But you're experiencing something different.
The CFO sees cost climbing in ways that don't make sense.
The COOC's OR efficiency stuck at a ceiling.
The CNOC's quality risk that won't go away.
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