Saving Blood and Saving Lives During Time of Urgent Need Nationwide AN DIEGO and ONTARIO, Calif., May 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- At Prime Healthcare, a partnership with Accumen is saving blood and saving lives during a time of urgent need for blood donations nationwide.1 The program protects a vital life-saving resource and offers evidence-based guidance for clinicians, which has resulted in a reduction of unnecessary or avoidable transfusions while reducing costs amidst a climate where healthcare costs continue to increase. Accumen, as a performance partner, developed a comprehensive Patient Blood Management program (cPBM) to improve patient outcomes and deliver value for the health system that includes 45 hospitals in 14 states. In just one year, the results of an enterprise-wide campaign to "Save Blood and Save Lives" drove a decrease of more than 11,000 units of Red Blood Cells (RBCs) being transfused and resulted in reduced transfusion-associated risk of HAIs (hospital-acquired infections), thrombotic events, transfusion reactions, mortality, and morbidity. Accumen's team developed an evidence-based proprietary prioritization matrix to scale its PBM Program that included infrastructure development, clinical education and awareness, clinical guidelines, CPOE blood order builds and meaningful transfusion benchmarks and analytics. "Prime Healthcare's commitment to patient safety and evidence-based clinical care, coupled with Accumen's comprehensive Patient Blood Management model, has resulted in an incredible partnership, profoundly improving healthcare quality across the entire hospital network within 12 months," said Joe Thomas, BSN, RN, National Director of Clinical Optimization for Accumen. "Prime is the largest health system to implement a comprehensive program and achieve these incredible results in such an accelerated timeframe." "I applaud our physicians, nurses and all clinicians for their dedication to patient blood management and adhering to evidence-based guidelines," said Sunny Bhatia, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Prime Healthcare. "This initiative has, most importantly, resulted in improved patient care and clinical outcomes." In a collaborative approach supported by Prime Healthcare's leadership, a corporate PBM steering committee was established as well as a PBM Task Force at Prime Healthcare's hospitals. With physicians and subject matter experts from Prime and Accumen, a new set of evidence-based transfusion guidelines was developed for implementation at the hospitals. Prime's award-winning IT and EHR (Electronic Realth Record) team optimized its CPOE platform to accelerate blood order implementation across its system with multiple EHR
saving blood and saving lives during a time of urgent need nationwide
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