“An avoided infection does not really affect the bottom line.” Are you sure?

Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2024
In collaboration with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC and Nozin

I spent more than twenty years as a Corporate Director of Infection Prevention for an Integrated Health Care Delivery Network (IDN). During that time, I learned a great deal about managing infection prevention and about corporate leadership culture and priorities. My job was to secure senior leadership support for the major initiatives my team wanted to execute to reduce infection risk. Over the years, communicating the financial impact of our proposals became more fundamental to securing approval due to the increasing financial and operational challenges our organization faced.

I learned two important things: First, hospital leadership often does not understand the actual cost of an avoided infection, an HAI (healthcare associated infection). Many think it is a “sunk” or “soft”...

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