University of Kansas Hospital exceeds blood savings goal in less than one year.

As Medical Director and Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Hospital, Lowell Tilzer, M.D., understood that blood is a precious resource. As such, he had attended educational seminars on blood management and read literature on how blood overutilization is shown to negatively affect patient outcomes. His colleague, Shirley Weber, the Administrative Director of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, initially approached blood utilization from an administrative perspective. She learned through benchmarking reports that other similarly sized academic medical centers were spending less on blood than their hospital was spending. With 550 staffed beds, a Level I Trauma Center, a large oncology program, and a very active transplant center, effective blood management is important to the success of the organization.

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