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Example Business Case: Boost Efficiency and Sustainability in A Hospital’s ICU with Procestimal

Let's say that in a small hospital in the Netherlands, the intensive care unit (ICU) has leveraged Procestimal’s Lean Six Sigma toolbox to enhance patient care and operational efficiency. With three team leaders and the head nurse using Procestimal’s tools, the ICU has achieved significant improvements. The ICU operates with a 24/7 staff, comprising six nurses per shift. By utilizing Procestimal’s toolbox, the ICU has streamlined its processes, reducing waste and improving patient care.

Financial Impact:
• Annual Cost of Procestimal for ICU: €479.52 (for 4 flexible monthly licenses of €9.99/user/mo).
• Estimated Savings: A starting ICU nurse in The Netherlands earns € 29.21/hr (As of June '24, FWG 55-0, including holiday pay, excl. irregularity allowance). The estimated savings are expected in less use of disposable materials, and less time searching for the right tools and equipment needed. Less waiting for other stages of the treatment and all this freed-up time can be used to increase patient care leading to increased customer value.

In a very pessimistic scenario, this team could only save 5min (worth € 2.43) of the working time of one nurse per shift. This adds up to a saving of € 7.29 a day making the payback time of the investment only 66 days (of which the first 30 are the free trial period, making the actual payback time only 36 days). Every additional small improvement made by using Procestimal's toolbox only increases the ROI (which in this example is already over 500%) even further.

Sustainability Impact: By cutting down on the use of plastic disposables, the ICU has in addition significantly reduced its environmental footprint.

Investing in Procestimal not only enhances patient care because less time is spent on non-value-adding activities like walking around searching for required materials, waiting on others or mistakes made, but also delivers substantial financial returns and supports the hospital’s sustainability goals. Next to these benefits, by embracing a Lean way of working worker satisfaction has increased and bottom-up improvement ideas are stimulated and welcomed.