Medicine

Medicine

All hospitals highlighted below implemented one of three main interventions in IHO’s Variability Methodology®: Optimize Medical Inpatient Flow

This intervention to Optimize Inpatient Flow is focused around the main goals of improving quality of care, patient safety, and throughput while achieving cost savings. For more information about IHO programs and services, please
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Towson, Maryland

  • Savings of approximately $2million in avoided capital expenditures by opening needed medical beds rather than building telemetry beds
  • Savings of more than $1million per year in staffing costs

CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ

  • Telemetry beds required decreased from 54 to 42 while providing adequate clinically appropriate access
  • Inappropriate telemetry admissions decreased from 18% to 1%
  • Average waiting times for incoming patients (i.e. ED boarding) decreased from 18.2 hours to about 9 hours
  • Telemetry length of stay decreased 31% from 4.4 days to just under 3 days
  • Delays in discharging patients out of telemetry decreased from 8.3 hours to 3.5 hours on average
  • Patient satisfaction increased from 56% to 73%

Ocean Medical Center, Brick, NJ

  • Telemetry ALOS decreased by 6%
  • Patient waiting time (i.e., average ED boarding time) decreased 56%
  • $1.07 million cost reduction

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ

Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ

  • ED boarding time for ICU admissions decreased by 21%
  • ICU LOS decreased by over 14% from 3.5 to 3 days
  • 40% reduction in mortality
  • Waiting time of discharge- and transfer-ready patients in the ICU decreased by 34% and 84% respectively