About

Starting Semester: Fall 2025
Assigned: No
Location: Marietta

Wellstar Health System

Client Profile

At Wellstar, people are at the center of everything we do and every decision we make. As a not-for-profit organization, we have made a generational commitment to transform healthcare for all. We work to ensure every person has access to personalized care that helps them spend more time being a person, rather than a patient. That’s what we mean when we say we’re more than healthcare–we’re PeopleCare.



Wellstar is nationally recognized for our inclusive culture, exceptional doctors and team members, and personal, high-quality care. We thoughtfully reinvest in prevention, wellness programs and charity care, and provide access to compassionate, world-class care through our expansive system of 11 hospitals, 329 medical office locations, 11 cancer centers, 91 rehabilitation centers, 35 imaging centers, 20 urgent care locations, five health parks, three hospice facilities and two retirement villages.

Project Description

2. Kennestone Hospital Patient Flow / Epic Optimization Project(s)

a. Problem Scope:

i. Kennestone Hospital has recently implemented new features within Epic to assist with discharge planning, communication, and timeliness of discharge to right-size the LOS for patients at their facility.

ii. While these features have been implemented, they have not yet been operationalized, meaning they have not been incorporated into the day to day workflow of all impacted staff, so the desired outcomes of LOS improvement have not yet been realized.

b. Desired Outcomes:

i. Partner with the Director of Industrial Engineering at Wellstar and the leadership staff at Kennestone Hospital to:

1. Understand the current challenges with implementing the Epic discharge improvement features and the current plan for operationalization.

2. Determine the best process measures to track the usage and effectiveness of the new Epic features.

3. Determine processes that should incorporate the new features and make recommendations on how to upgrade those processes to improve LOS.

4. Build a plan for implementation of process changes to incorporate new features and improve LOS.

5. Participate in the implementation process as time allows.

Skills

Industrial Engineering Students preferred given the process improvement work required.