Healthcare Performance Partners (HPP) introduces an approach to eliminate central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) that engages staff and leadership. The average estimated cost avoidance per CLABSI is $34,600 and there are often 19 additional days in the hospital per event. Hospitals can save millions eliminating CLABSI and regain over $100,000 in Value Based Purchasing dollars. After working with HPP using their "Gone in 60 Days" approach, a large teaching hospital achieved zero CLABSI rates for 4 months. A health system including a teaching hospital and community hospitals saw their CLABSI rate go to zero during deployment and over 90% improvement when sustaining the changes.

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Healthcare Performance Partners
(HPP, a VIZIENT Company),
introduces a Lean based, staff and
leadership engaging approach to the
elimination and prevention of
Central Line Associated Blood
Stream Infections (CLABSI).
With an average estimated cost
avoidance of $34,600 per CLABSI
event, 19 additional days LOS per
event and noting a 25% mortality
rate for CLABSI, many hospitals
stand to eliminate millions of dollars
in cost and gain back > $100K Value
Based Purchasing (VBP) dollars lost
due to high CLABSI numbers/rates.
For more information on how you
can eliminate CLABSI at your
organization, call Rick Beaver at
412-302-9900.
After many unsuccessful
attempts to eliminate
CLABSI, this large
teaching institution
engaged with HPP to
deploy their “Gone in 60
Days” approach. After 30
days to establish a
foundation for the front
line staff processes and a
Lean Management
Systems approach for
Hospital Leaders, the
improvement process
began. Beginning day
one of deployment,
through the 60 days of
proof of concept and for
a period of 4 successive
months, the hospital
experienced a zero
CLABSI rate. See graphic
below.
MAJOR 700 BED
ACADEMIC HOSPITAL
ELIMINATES CLABSI
A health system that
includes a large
teaching hospital and a
number of community
hospitals worked with
HPP in an attempt to
prevent CLABSI across
all its member hospitals.
Using “Gone in 60 Days”
the organization saw
their CLABSI rate go to
zero during deployment
and a >90%
improvement through
the sustainment phase
of their work.
Below is a graph
showing one example
how CLABSI was
reduced at several
hospitals.
A 20 HOSPITAL
HEALTH SYSTEM
DEPLOYS “GONE IN
60 DAYS” TO
ELIMINATE CLABSI