Hospital COPD Bundle Curbs Costly Readmissions
University of Cincinnati Medical Center used improvement science to develop and implement a ‘COPD care bundle’ for COPD patients who are often readmitted due to care-delivery failures.
How Cleveland Clinic Saved Millions Through Smarter Energy Use
The Office for a Healthy Environment at Cleveland Clinic has launched several initiatives to manage its heating, ventilation, and air conditioning costs, which can drain the energy budget. For example, using setbacks to lower the thermostat just two degrees saves $600,000 a year.
Using Predictive Analytics to Align ED Staffing Resources With Patient Demand
A data analysis provided the basis for developing an emergency department staffing model that more precisely accounted for day-to-day variations in volume of patient visits.
Henry Ford Health System Cuts Food Service Net Cost Per Patient Day
The health system achieved a 1-3 percent cost reduction by moving to self-operated services and streamlining vendors, while adding room service and healthier food options.
UI Health Cuts ED Homeless Patient Costs by 45 Percent
The Illinois public hospital pays $1,000 per patient per month to an outside agency to house 27 homeless patients in furnished, one-bedroom apartments. This investment is significantly less than the nearly $3,000 per patient per day that UI Health and managed care organizations were spending on some chronically homeless patients.
Feeding the Demand for Performance Management Information: Reports or Dashboards?
Access to actionable data presented in well-structured reports and dashboard formats optimizes decision-making.
Using Physician Assistants Can Save Costs
Healthcare executives responding to a recent survey overwhelming agree that transforming costs is a “significant” or “very significant” need, but more than 50 percent have no cost reduction targets for the next five years or have a goal of 1-5 percent—a range that is far below what will be required to transform cost structures.
Crisis Behavioral Health Readiness
Geoffrey Boyce describes the benefits of putting telehealth infrastructure in place before a natural disaster or other crisis strikes.
New Survey Finds Current Cost Transformation Initiatives Lack Required Urgency
Healthcare executives responding to a recent survey overwhelming agree that transforming costs is a “significant” or “very significant” need, but more than 50 percent have no cost reduction targets for the next five years or have a goal of 1-5 percent—a range that is far below what will be required to transform cost structures.
Benchmarking Helps OSF HealthCare Save $160M Annually
Spurred by a drop in operating income, OSF HealthCare embarked on a clinical and financial improvement initiative that has saved the organization $160 million each year.