Cost management

Format:
XLS (spreadsheet)

Size:
1 page

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads or team members

Best used:
Use this spreadsheet to track and determine the economic benefits of your team's performance improvement projects—you can easily see the impact of your efforts on the bottom line.

Note: Entries are placeholders; delete them and add your own information.

Format:
PDF (color and black and white)

Size:
8.5” x 11” (two-sided)

Intended audience:
Level 2 and higher unit-based teams

Best used: Download and share this introduction to performance improvement with team members as a guide to the common types of wasted resources that diminish care and service. 

Use with:

• Waste Walk Instructions
• Waste Walk Observation Sheets

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Managers and union members

Best used:
Review this list at your UBT meeting to see if your team could adapt one of these projects to improve affordability.

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Frontline workers and managers

Best used:
This Hank Lib from Winter 2013 can provide variety and fun at a team meeting while highlighting waste reduction and savings.

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP employees, UBT consultants, improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a Colorado UBT that found a way to better track its surgical instruments and save thousands of dollars. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente.

Format:
PowerPoint

Size:
8.5" x 11", three pages

Intended audience:
Department managers, management and union co-leads and UBT sponsors

Best used:
Shows the growth of performance improvement projects, including cost reduction, efficiency and patient safety.

Format:PPT

Size:
1 slide

Intended audience:
LMP staff, UBT consultants and improvement advisers

Best used:
This PowerPoint slide features a Materials Management team that found a way to save in linen costs. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente. 

Format: 
PowerPoint

Size: 
30 slides 

Intended audience:
UBT co-leads, sponsors and consultants

Best used:
To find out what other teams are doing and adapt their successful practices. 

Download PPT

Format:
PPT

Size:
1 Slide

Intended audience:
LMP staff, UBT consultants, improvement advisers 

Best used:
This slide highlights a lab team that saved thousands by reducing use of the butterfly needle. Use in presentations to show some of the methods used and the measurable results being achieved by unit-based teams across Kaiser Permanente.

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5" x 11"

Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians

Best used:
Share the story of this lab team that saved thousands by reducing the use of the butterfly needle on bulletin boards, in break rooms and in other staff areas.