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Hospital HVAC downtime risk

Compare financial risk using hospital records or an hourly outage estimate.

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Metric: Scheduled case minute displacedWhich of this building's own numbers the event is priced in

Both halves of this rate are already on file at every hospital in the state. Each year it reports its operating minutes and what surgery cost. So the rate exists for each hospital, and nobody has to buy it. The published figure behind it came from reports that 302 hospitals filed with the state. Those reports covered 2014. The count comes off the hospital's own block schedule. It is the booked case minutes that fell inside the window and did not run. Never staffed room hours. Never the hours the equipment was down. This rate is priced per minute of surgery. The minutes run from when the patient goes under to when the patient comes out. Multiplying it by the hours the plant was down is not a loss. It is two clocks mixed up.

Childers CP, Maggard-Gibbons M. Understanding Costs of Care in the Operating Room. JAMA Surgery 2018;153(4):e176233

Step 2Pull the block schedule

Is the block schedule on hand?

Yes means someone has the block schedule for those rooms and that date.

minutesNot set
0100,000

Booked minutes of surgery that could not run, not elapsed outage minutes.

$

dollars per operating minute

Market average: a published study of California hospitals.

Condition of use: The study says more than half of this cost cannot be changed in the short term.

0200

The hospital's own yearly cost filing holds this rate.

$

dollars per operating minute

Market average: a published study of California hospitals.

0200

The same yearly cost filing holds pay and benefits for the room team.

percentNot set

Payroll shows which of that team the hospital paid through the hold.

Is the optional overhead page part of the cost filing?

Yes means the hospital filed the optional overhead page with its cost report.

hoursNot set
05,000

The schedule records the weekend and after-hours blocks the hospital added.

$per hourNot set
020,000

The hospital's own pay scale holds the premium for one of those hours.

casesNot set
05,000

The schedule shows which canceled cases never came back within 30 days.

$Not set
0200,000

The finance office holds contribution margin by service line.

slotsNot set
020,000

The imaging department counts the slots that never came back within 30 days.

$Not set
0100,000

The hospital's own published price file holds the rate for that code.

$Not set
010,000,000

The policy names the deductible on the line that answers for a failure like this.

$Not set
0100,000,000

The policy shows what limit that same line carries.

$Not set
0100,000,000

The policy shows whether spoiled stock has a limit of its own.

findingsNot set
020

The compliance office holds the count of those penalties.

Step 3Describe the equipment serving those rooms

Is there a standby unit, with a load test on paper in the last 12 months?

Yes needs both a standby unit and a load test written down in the last 12 months.

Would hooking up temporary cooling here need state review first?

The compliance office knows whether a temporary hookup here needs state review.

dosesNot set
0100,000

The pharmacy knows which doses were in the cleanroom and could not be released.

$Not set
050,000

The hospital's own invoices hold the cost of the drug and the consumables.

dosesNot set
0100,000

The purchase orders hold the count of doses actually bought.

$Not set
050,000

The hospital's own invoices show both prices for the same dose.

unitsNot set
020,000

The monitoring record on that refrigerator holds the count.

$Not set
020,000

The blood supplier's bill shows what the lost units cost to replace.

roomsNot set
0500

The drawings show which isolation rooms sit downstream of the failed unit.

daysNot set
03,650

The hospital's own log shows the check that failed and the date it failed.

degrees FNot set

A thermometer or the building system gives the hottest reading during the hold.

Is this equipment on the emergency power branch?

Yes means this unit itself restarts on the generator.

Questions included in this metric

Every question in this panel feeds the figures beside it. Nothing is set aside.

Starting values, blanks and sources

Every box below opens blank, or at a starting value. A starting value stands only until the site's own figure takes its place. It is named under its box, with its source, and with its working one symbol away. A blank box is refused by name until the site answers it. Every box says why behind the information symbol beside its question.

Repair costs to include

Select only costs not already counted above.

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Building types and method

Step 1

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How this is different
Every box opens blank, or at a starting value. A starting value stands only until the site's own figure takes its place. Where CCMS cannot source something honestly, this page leaves it out and names it.
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Questions, and every one of them this building type's own

28 of them sit in the two steps below. The count of events in a year sits at the foot of the panel. Each one comes off this market's own contract language and its own published rates. A question CCMS cannot source honestly is not asked.

Daikin water-cooled chillers with insulated piping in a mechanical room
The machine the building cannot lose. That is where the analysis starts.

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