Cost of Care

Healthcare Cost Containment: October 2017

February 8, 2018 9:30 am

Healthcare Cost Containment subscribers can access the individual articles and web exclusives listed below.

Energy Costs

How Cleveland Clinic Saved Millions Through Smarter Energy Use

By Laura Ramos Hegwer

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.

Redesigning Care

Hospital COPD Bundle Curbs Costly Readmissions

By Laura Ramos Hegwer

University of Cincinnati Medical Center used improvement science to develop and implement a COPD care bundle for patients who are often readmitted due to care-delivery failures.

Facility Management

A Facilities Reinvestment Schedule Prevents Surprises, Creates Savings Opportunities

By Ed Avis

Having a disciplined, long-term reinvestment schedule is one way many healthcare organizations keep their facilities in top shape, maximize energy savings, and prevent catastrophic system failures resulting from inadequate maintenance.

Clinical Collaboration

Helping Emergency Department Clinicians Understand the Costs of Care

An interview with Kevin A. Hoffman, Lakeland Health, by Laura Ramos Hegwer

Finance leaders should collaborate with clinical leaders to develop a greater awareness of room fees, nursing fees, and radiology fees needed to treat ED patients.

Clinical Costs

Care Navigators Offer Cost-Effective Solution for Improving Value-Based Care

By Dawn Hawkins Johnson and Darcie Goodman

Targeted interventions by care navigators can make a big difference in population health and patient satisfaction without a big cost.

         Sidebar: Rising At-Risk Populations

         Sidebar: Care Navigators: A Mini Case Study

Containing Clinical Costs

Working Smarter: Using Control Charts to Tackle the High Cost of Clinical Variation 

By Jennie Dulac

From our sponsor Kaufman, Hall & Associates
Consistent, accurate, and timely clinical reporting has the power to prompt care teams to adhere to clinical protocols and be mindful of how they stack up against peers and national benchmarks.

Healthcare Costs at a Glance

Flu Vaccine Helps Avoid More than 70,000 Hospitalizations

CDC estimates that if vaccination rates increased by just 5 percentage points across the entire population, another 6,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations could have been avoided. 

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