Case Study: Central Maine Medical Center achieves 350 additional OR hours and $300K annual labor savings with Stryker Vocera

Central Maine Medical Center Uses Vocera to Boost its Operating Room Efficiency and Make Every Minute Count

Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC), an integrated healthcare system serving roughly half a million people in central and western Maine, faced chronic operating-room inefficiencies driven by slow, ineffective internal communications—reliance on beepers, walkie-talkies and overhead paging caused repeated delays and limited the hospital’s ability to increase surgical capacity without raising labor costs.

In 2011 CMMC deployed the Vocera voice-driven, hands-free communication system over the hospital wireless network. The hospital created an extra 350 hours of annual OR capacity and saved more than $300,000 in yearly labor costs, while cutting high‑impact delays by 26%, reducing average case length by 2.6%, improving productivity 9%, lowering FTE hours 11.6% and slashing beeper pages by 93%. The system also improved safety, OR flow and rapid coordination of staff and equipment.

Central Maine Medical Center

Bruce O’Donnell

Chief Nurse Anesthetist