HAI Cost-Avoidance & ROI
Hand hygiene programs compete for budget like everything else in the hospital. clearPath helps you make the financial case: it translates the compliance gains you have already measured into a defensible dollar figure — the healthcare-associated infections avoided, the inpatient days and readmissions saved, and the net return after your program cost.
The result is a single executive page and a set of live dashboard widgets you can take into a budget meeting and defend line by line. Every number traces back to an assumption you control, seeded from published CDC, AHRQ, and peer-reviewed estimates and tunable to your own surveillance and finance data.
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- Compliance lift expressed in dollars
- One board-ready executive page
- Avoided HAIs by infection type
- Length-of-stay and readmission savings
- Net of your annual program cost
- Defaults from CDC, AHRQ, and the literature
- Every assumption tunable to your data
- Four live ROI widgets on the dashboard
A Number You Can Defend
The ROI calculation only counts compliance gains above a baseline you set, so the figure stays conservative and credible. It estimates how many infections that improvement plausibly prevented, multiplies by the cost of each infection type, then adds the downstream savings — the inpatient days a prevented infection would have added, and the readmissions it would have caused. Your prorated program cost is subtracted to give a true net return.
- Counts only improvement above your chosen baseline
- Avoided infections × cost per case, by category
- Plus length-of-stay and readmission savings
- Minus your prorated annual program cost
- Conservative by design — built to survive finance review
Assumptions You Control
Every facility's costs are different, so every input is yours to set. The ROI Assumptions editor ships with illustrative defaults drawn from published sources, then lets you replace them with your own contracted licence cost, your finance team's cost-per-inpatient-day, your readmission rate, and your own surveillance figures — for the five infection types that drive the bulk of HAI cost.
- Program & compliance — annual cost, baseline, attributable fraction
- Length-of-stay & readmission — excess days, day cost, readmit rate and cost
- HAI categories — CLABSI, CAUTI, SSI, C. difficile, and MRSA
- Include or exclude any infection type your facility does not track
- Reset to published defaults at any time
ROI on Your Dashboard
The same model powers four widgets on the Executive dashboard, so leadership sees the financial story update as new observations land — no waiting for a quarterly report. Drop them onto the dashboard alongside your compliance gauges and they rescope together with every account, facility, unit, and time-period filter.
- Net Savings — the bottom-line return for the period
- Cost Avoided by Category — where the savings come from
- Net Savings Trend — the return tracked over time
- Compliance Lift — the improvement driving it all
Make the Case in Dollars.
Available in the clearPath Ultimate edition. Turn the compliance gains you have already earned into a board-ready return-on-investment story.
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