Value Analysis Information Packet
The complete clinical and financial case for the Couplet Care Bassinet, formatted for hospital review.
Postpartum nurses are often the first to recognize a design gap at the bedside. This packet gives you the clinical evidence, safety documentation, and operational analysis to bring that observation to leadership. It is designed to move through procurement without requiring additional research on your end.
What's inside
Everything the committee needs, in one place.
Clinical champions at hospitals across the country have used this packet to advance a conversation about hospital bassinet design through the Value Analysis Committee process. It contains the clinical evidence, safety documentation, design comparison, and cost avoidance analysis a committee needs to evaluate the Couplet Care Bassinet.
Value Analysis Information Packet contents
Clinical evidence
National Institutes of Health research summary
Results from a randomized controlled trial funded by the National Institutes of Health: families assigned to use the Couplet Care Bassinet called for nursing significantly less and infants were removed from postpartum rooms for significantly less time.
Quality care alignment
World Health Organization Ten Steps, American Academy of Pediatrics 2022 Policy Statement on safe sleep, and Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative documentation and design implications.
Design distiniction framework
How the Couplet Care Bassinet differs from a traditional hospital bassinet and why that distinction matters for how mothers and infants are cared for together after childbirth.
Safety documentation
Infant safety and access analysis
How bedside design affects a mother's ability to pick up and set down her infant safely. The relationship between hospital bassinet design and safe sleep risk when independent access is not possible.
Patient safety and documentation
Published case documentation on the safety consequences of hospital bassinets that do not support independent postpartum access. For risk management and safety committee review.
Financial and operational case
Cost avoidance worksheet
Customizable by annual birth volume, nurse hourly rate, and Bassinet fleet size. Each Bassinet can support up to 150 couplets per year and may save up to 495 hours of nurse time annually.
Operational scenarios by birth volume
Directional projections of nursing time recovered at 1,000, 3,000, and 5,000 annual live births.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems and nurse retention implications
How calls for infant handling assistance affect patient satisfaction scores and nursing stress over time.
Design and validation
Product comparison
Feature-level comparison of the Couplet Care Bassinet, the Halo BassiNest, and traditional hospital bassinets on all clinically relevant design criteria.
Awards and recognition
2025 Red Dot Award, Industrial Designers Society of America IDEA Award finalist, Core77 Design Awards, Good Design Award. National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research Phase I and Phase II grantee.
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