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Premier Healthcare Alliance Members Present Successful Pre-Conference Session at Pay-for-Performance Summit
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-(Business Wire)-March 14, 2008 - Three members of the Premier healthcare alliance held a room captive for more than three hours February 27 describing how they used Premier tools to drive rapid improvement to achieve top performer status in the Premier/CMS Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project during a pre-conference session of the third national pay-for-performance summit in Los Angeles.
"Salem Hospital was able to achieve success quickly by having the will, the ideas, and most importantly the ability to execute effectively," said Daniel Grigg, director, Center for Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness at Salem (Ore.) Hospital. "Our five-step execution model of design, educate, validate competency, measure conformance, and intervention/appropriate action has been instrumental in our ability to see rapid results."
Said Lori B. Knitt, RN, BSN, director, Medical Staff/Quality Services, Aurora Sheboygan (Wisc.) Memorial Medical Center, "Our strategy involved using standard order sets, educating physicians and staff about the metrics, delivering rapid feedback, and rewarding success. Our success is largely attributed to using unique improvement tools across the hospital. They included staff newsletters, measurement games on each nursing unit, and an HQID "Carnival," quarterly scorecards that are publicly displayed. After trying a number of approaches, we concluded that making our efforts real, timely, and personal works best."
At St. Joseph's Health System in Orange, Calif., Ginny Ripslinger, assistant vice president, Knowledge Management said, "We had a system-wide approach for improving performance. With focused leadership, alignment of clinicians and physicians, accountability in work processes, and ongoing awareness of progress, we were able to achieve success across our ministries."
Premier Vice President Frank Johnson and Director Jan McNeilly also shared a summary of lessons learned and innovative solutions for improving hospital performance. The pre-conference session was such a success that Premier plans to present it again as an online teleconference so it can be made available to a wider audience.
The Premier healthcare alliance since 2003 has partnered with more than 250 participating hospitals and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the HQID project. It continues to provide evidence that participants' quality continues to improve while patient mortality rates and hospital costs decline. The project has been extended by CMS for an additional three years (through 2009).
The Premier/CMS HQID project collects a set of more than 30 evidence-based clinical quality measures from more than 250 hospitals across the country. The quality measures were developed by government and private organizations. For more information, visit www.qualitydemo.com.
About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving 1,700 U.S. hospitals and more than 49,000 other healthcare sites, the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary operates one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is working with the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia, and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.
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