For internal leadership review

The institutional case, in your own numbers.

Enter the figures you already know. Your annual births estimate the families affected; the nurse replacement cost is a published national figure you do not need to look up. The model translates readiness into the terms leadership decides on, then writes a leadership memo you can hand up as is.

Your figures

Estimates are fine. Adjust anything.

Institution

Prepared by your name and title, for the memo

Annual births approximate is fine

At about 9 losses per 1,000 births (CDC stillbirth and neonatal mortality data), that is roughly 27 perinatal and infant loss encounters a year. Adjust the number below if you know your actual count.

Perinatal & infant loss encounters per year stillbirths, neonatal deaths, significant losses

Cost to replace one bedside nurse national figure: $60,090 (2026 NSI report) $

Founding-partner engagement cost optional, for the ROI multiple $

See unit-wide retention exposure (optional)

Bedside nurses on maternal-child units

Annual RN turnover rate national average 17.6% is pre-filled (2026 NSI)

Families this standard protects

27 families a year

experience perinatal or infant loss here, each a defining encounter with the institution.

Retention & workforce

Preventing one avoidable nurse departure

$60,090

returns the full national replacement cost of one bedside nurse (2026 NSI National Health Care Retention Report). The case does not need a turnover percentage to hold: one retained nurse pays for the engagement many times over.

Patient experience, reimbursement & loyalty

Families affected each year

Investment context

Return on investment (ROI)

The Word document opens in Word or Google Docs and is fully editable. Copy pastes the memo as plain text. Nothing is sent anywhere.