How can individual entities (systems or hospitals) set a goal for number of lives saved?
One way to set a hospital-specific goal is to determine what level of improvement we need from each participating hospital in order to reach 100,000 lives saved over 18 months. At current levels of national enrollment (over 30 million discharges per year in hospitals participating in the Campaign), participating hospitals would need to average just above 2 lives saved per 1000 discharges over the entire 18 months of the Campaign. For example, a hospital with 10,000 yearly discharges would need to save a total of: (10,000 discharges) x (18 months/12 months) x (2 lives saved/1000 discharges) = 30 lives saved If every hospital (or system) in the Campaign were to achieve this level of improvement, the Campaign overall would reach 100,000 lives saved. Of course, not all hospitals will be able to do this, so, in practice, we need more than the 2 lives per 1000 discharges average from hospitals that are able. Once hospitals have started to have success in their improvement projects and met th
