Reducing
length of stay
by 30%
Making hospitals work. Real results. Safely delivered. Proven approach
Benefits
Achieve your Emergency Department targets
Free up beds for ED patients requiring admission and reduce overcrowding while improving performance.
Achieve your Referral to Treatment targets
Eliminate the need to place medical patients onto surgical wards, enabling the admission of revenue-generating elective inpatients.
Improve your financial performance
No more opening up unfunded beds and having to employ out-of-budget bank and agency staff.
Reduce your acquired infections
Reduce the chances of your patients acquiring an infection whilst in your care.
Real reductions in patient length of stay
JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
In the Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit, patient length of stay was reduced by 50.8% and unnecessary admissions by 8.93%. Nominated for the HSJ Acute Sector Innovation Award.
Beaumont Hospital Dublin
The average patient length of stay was reduced by 34.5%.
CALDERDALE & HUDDERSFIELD FOUNDATION TRUST
The average length of stay was reduced by 30% for medical patients and by 53% for surgical patients.
PLYMOUTH HOSPITAL TRUST
The average patient length of stay was reduced by 28.3%.
UNITED LINCOLN HOSPITALS TRUST
The average length of stay was reduced by 27.3% for medical patients and by 28.3% for surgical patients.
Every patient receives the right care
On time, every time
Monitor has “identified a lack of bed availability on inpatient wards as one of the main culprits contributing to the recent Emergency Department (A&E) crisis”.
Visual Hospital and our data-driven approach to patient discharge reduces patient length of stay on wards by 30% and increases available bed capacity. The increased bed capacity improves flow through and
from A&E and Assessment Units, and creates opportunities to significantly reduce costs by matching safely staffed bed capacity with the demand, and by ensuring the right patient is in the right specialty bed. Eliminating outlier patients creates the capacity to increase elective activity. Our approach aligns perfectly with NHS England’s Five Year Forward View to increase the quality of care while reducing the costs of delivering care.
Want to find out how to reduce patient length of stay?
The Visual Hospital Perspective at Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust
Tania King, Service Improvement Manager from Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust talks about “Redesigning Complex Processes” using the Visual Hospital perspective at the Lean Summit 2011 ran by the Lean Enterprise Academy.
You will hear how using the Lean techniques described in our book, Making Hospitals Work, have made significant improvements to the Trust.
