The partnership achieves over a $2 million margin growth in one year through a strategic focus on efficiency and innovation for exceptional patient care.
Boca Raton and Tampa, FL – May 14, 2024 – Trivent Healthcare, a leading provider of ventilator liberation services, recently announced the fiscal achievements of its collaboration with Tampa General Hospital (TGH). This successful partnership continues to produce significant cost savings, once again exceeding $2 million for the hospital in 2023. Ventilator liberation is the process of removing a patient from mechanical ventilation to breathe successfully on their own.
TriVent Healthcare focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to liberating patients from ventilators. Using high-touch, high-frequency therapy provides an improved likelihood of success.
“We are thrilled to celebrate the achievements that our partnership with Tampa General has generated,” said TriVent Healthcare CEO Sam Nimah. “Their TriVent unit has not only resulted in significant cost savings for the hospital but, more importantly, improved the lives of countless patients. We are excited for the continued success of our partnership and look forward to further advancing patient care and enhancing ventilator liberation together in the future.”
Tampa General’s TriVent unit is fully dedicated to its acute care population. In 2023, the hospital’s average length of stay for patients in the unit was 16.5 days, with a ventilator liberation rate of 86% – both of which exceed industry standards.
“TriVent began as a strategic partner for our hospital in 2019, and our unit continues to deliver successful outcomes for both our patients and our hospital,” said Tampa General Hospital President and CEO John Couris. “We are on a mission to continue to transform health care through innovation and collaboration and we look forward to deepening our ongoing relationship with TriVent as we explore our opportunities to further enhance patient care and operational efficiency.”
In June 2022, TriVent and Tampa General renewed their five-year agreement to continue operating the TriVent unit. To learn more about TriVent Healthcare, visit triventhealthcare.com.
About TriVent Healthcare
TriVent Healthcare, formerly Special Care Unit, located in Boca Raton, Florida, is the industry-leading provider of ventilator weaning and pulmonary rehabilitation services. Since 1991, TriVent Healthcare has partnered with hospitals and health systems to offer a unique approach that improves recovery time, reduces length of stay, and lowers readmissions of medically complex patients with the goal of successfully reuniting patients with their families. To learn more, visit triventhealthcare.com.
ABOUT TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Tampa General Hospital, a 981-bed, not-for-profit, academic health system, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region’s only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-24 Best Hospitals, with six specialties ranking among the top 50 best hospital programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic health system’s commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – in the top 100 nationally in the 2023 America’s Best Employers for Women and top 25 in Florida in the 2023 America’s Best Employers by State. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit of approximately $240.3 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation’s busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH, the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital’s footprint includes TGH North which is comprised of three hospitals and several outpatient locations in Citrus and Hernando counties, 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Outpatient Center, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics. To see a medical care professional live anytime, anywhere on a smartphone, tablet or computer, visit Virtual Health | Tampa General Hospital (tgh.org). As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.