[Histonet] slide distribution

[Rene J Buesa]

You have just identified your "bottle neck": it is the pathologists. You have to go by what they want to do and how they receive the cases.In my case  my concern were the "Rush" cases that I had always ready (ALL) at 8AM and were brought to the path. office and left on an assigned spot.From there the pathologists took what they wanted.Similarly the rest of the cases were brought to the office in batches until all were finished (never after noon every day).In another lab I managed it was instituted the "pre-sorting" and it was just a chaos with, as you describe, cases piling up in so pathologists compromising the TAT in a way that histology was finished on time, but the office, as a whole, had sometimes 11 days delays.Talk to the office manager (if you have one), and with the chief pathologists that the best way is to leave the finished cases at the office and from there the pathologists would pick their cases.René J. 

     On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:34 PM, "Algeo, Lacie A" <Lacie.Algeo <@t> providence.org> wrote:
   

 Hi All,
I know there are different schools of thought on slide distribution methods.  I am trying to move from pre-assigning cases to a continuous flow delivery to read system.  Does anyone have any protocols, feedback, data, literature etc. on this that would be helpful?  We are currently wasting a lot of time and money on pre-assigning (including when changes need to be made etc.).  I am also finding that TAT suffers due to Paths waiting on assigned cases to be completed when other Paths have a stack of cases waiting to be read because theirs just happened to come out first.
Thank you!!!
Lacie

Lacie Algeo, HTL (ASCP) MBCM
Histology Supervisor
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Laboratory
101 W 8th Avenue
L-2
Spokane, WA 99204
509-474-4418
FAX 509-474-2052
lacie.algeo <@t> providence.org<mailto:lacie.algeo <@t> providence.org>


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