Seven-Hospital System to Participate in Premier Healthcare Alliance ACO Collaborative, Harm Prevention Program
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PeaceHealth, a not-for-profit health system with hospitals, medical groups and joint-venture partnerships, has joined two Premier healthcare alliance efforts addressing health reform to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of care.
Serving patients and communities across Alaska, Washington and Oregon, PeaceHealth is now a member of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Readiness Collaborative, in collaboration with more than 45 participating health systems.
The healthcare system has also joined Premier’s QualityConnect™ performance improvement program and will use QualityAdvisor™, a newly enhanced solution within the program.
QualityConnect uses the nation’s largest comparative database to integrate quality, safety and cost data to help hospitals prevent harm, such as reducing hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) to enhance patient outcomes and preserve Medicare margins. Program members have saved more than $284 million in the past year through reductions in readmissions, patient length of stay, complications and mortalities.
“As an owner of Premier, we’ve seen the value the alliance brings to its membership,” said PeaceHealth President and CEO Alan Yordy. “PeaceHealth is eager to expand this partnership as a part of our ongoing efforts to keep patients safe and healthy in a cost-effective manner.”
According to Premier President and CEO Susan DeVore, “The quality improvement and cost containment work that alliance members like PeaceHealth have been conducting for years is exactly what health reform is driving at. They’re already implementing necessary reforms that will help ensure the care they provide will continue to be sustainable and highly effective under any circumstances.”
Members of the ACO Readiness Collaborative learn best practices and start to build the critical components of accountable care, including a patient-centered foundation that designs the ACO from a patient's perspective to foster better engagement, satisfaction and increased accountability for health.
QualityAdvisor facilitates physician, executive and data analyst communication regarding performance improvement. It also addresses value-based purchasing and The Joint Commission Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation requirements by identifying drivers behind outcomes. In addition, users can now benefit from KnowledgeBox®, a Web-enabled dashboard allowing hospital executives to easily view performance gaps and access best practices for improvement.
QualityAdvisor users learn key elements of success from top performers by leveraging clinical process expertise and knowledge from Premier's national performance improvement projects such as: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration™, a model for hospital value-based purchasing legislation; the QUEST®: High Performing Hospitals collaborative; and its new ACO collaboratives.
About PeaceHealth
PeaceHealth is a WA-based not-for-profit healthcare system serving multiple rural and urban communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. Founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, PeaceHealth has provided exceptional medicine and compassionate care to Northwest communities for more than a century, including serving the needs of small and remote communities through the operation of three successful Critical Access Hospitals. PeaceHealth annually receives national recognition for innovations in patient-centered care, patient safety and healthcare technology. Research published in the June 2008 edition of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety ranked PeaceHealth as one of the top five quality of care healthcare systems in the country, and the leading system in the West. PeaceHealth is frequently named as one of the region’s best employers. For more information, visit www.peacehealth.org.
About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and nearly 70,000 other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has offices in San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington. http://www.premierinc.com
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