Action For Better Healthcare

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Leaders and members of the Premier healthcare alliance have been named to a prestigious healthcare list highlighting the most influential people in the industry. They are among Modern Healthcare’s list of the 300 Most Influential People in Healthcare. Now, voting is underway to determine the short list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.

The solid presence of the Premier alliance’s 54 members on the initial list of 300 is evidence of the effort and innovation happening across the alliance. Premier members are true leaders in healthcare, working every day to improve patient care in America.

Voting for the top 100 list is open until June 15 via modernhealthcare.com. You must vote for five nominees.

Below you will find a complete list of all Premier members who were named among the 300, including Premier’s President and CEO, Susan DeVore and COO, Mike Alkire.

The top 100 people with the most votes will be published in the August 27 issue of Modern Healthcare.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE

Premier members on top 300 list:

Categories: Not For Profit hospitals, Premier healthcare alliance, Quality
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Mark Zuckerburg reveals an organ transplant Facebook tool. The CEO explains that this potentially life-saving tool is intended to help those in need of transplants. He hopes to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants.

Conversations with his med-student girlfriend helped him come up with this latest idea. You can listen to the complete story below from ABC News and let us know what you think. Can this work?

Categories: Access, Health videos, Organ donation, best practices, patient care, public health issues
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Adventist Health System has taken steps to improve care for the 4 million people it serves each year by joining a pair of programs focused on enhancing the quality, safety and affordability of America’s healthcare.

Nearly 40 Adventist Health System hospitals across several states have chosen to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Partnership for Patients program with Premier, a nationwide healthcare performance improvement alliance. With 540 hospitals participating, Premier is the second largest of 26 Hospital Engagement Networks approved by CMS.

Partnership for Patients will help identify the solutions already working to reduce hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), and share them with providers across the nation. It offers support to physicians, nurses and other clinicians working to keep patients from getting injured or acquiring infections while in the hospital so they can heal without complications.

Specifically, hospitals focus on reducing preventable harm, including preventable readmissions, by 20 percent and preventable HACs by 40 percent by the end of 2013. In doing so, CMS estimates the partnership has the potential to, over the next three years - save 60,000 lives, reduce millions of preventable injuries and complications in patient care and save as much as $35 billion, including up to $10 billion in savings to Medicare.

In QUEST’s first three years, 157 hospitals saved 24,820 lives and reduced healthcare spending by almost $4.5 billion. Now the growing number of more than 300 hospitals in QUEST are working together to make data-driven, evidence-based decisions in care delivery. The goal is to improve the patient experience and avoid harm while reducing mortality, cost of care and readmissions.

"Both QUEST and the Partnership for Patients offer significant value and improvement strategies that align with national priorities, federal policies and future reimbursement, which increasingly will tie payment to performance,” said Adventist Health System President and CEO Donald L. Jernigan, Ph.D.

Categories: Access, Hospital readmissions, Partnership fo Patients, Premier healthcare alliance, Quality, accountable care organizations, healthcare costs, healthcare reform, hospitals
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