For example, the Northshore LIJ hospital system increased utilization of operating rooms by challenging teams to improve in a short period of time, which triggered ideas and actions for innovative scheduling, patient transport, and materials management processes.
They stressed that such a review had been in the works for some time and was not triggered by the departure of Gen Petraeus or the subsequent question marks raised over "possibly inappropriate communications" involving the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) commander, John Allen, and Tampa socialite Jill Kelley.