Success Stories
Experience the Premier advantage. Premier clients have higher care quality scores than the national average, higher labor productivity than the national average, and greater than 15 to1 return on inves™ent (ROI) from process improvement efforts.
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QualityConnect™
Length of Stay
- Holy Cross Hospital saves $2.5 million annually by reducing LOS in 4 months
- Tennessee hospital slashes sepsis patient mortality deviation by 50 percent, reduces length of stay
Resource Utilization
- Bon Secours Health System clinical initiative reduces sepsis mortality by 120 patients, achieves cost savings/avoidance of nearly $2 million
- NC hospital reduces LOS in certain units, early readmission rate by 2%-plus while saving more than $370,000
- WV hospital's sepsis initiative reduces mortality, saves on cost of caring for patients
- IDN identifies $1.1 million savings opportunity to improve cath lab drug utilization
- North Mississippi improves trauma, neurosurgery patient outcomes
- St. Vincent Indianapolis improves blood management and utilization
- Borgess Medical Center improves mortality in non-surgery heart cases
- NC hospital improves patient care with weekly monitoring tools
- Virginia hospital improved financial performance; annualized savings top $7 million
Physician performance reporting
- ClinicalAdvisor® helps with mortality opportunities analysis, focused physician performance evaluations to drive care improvements at SSM St. Mary’s Good Samaritan
- Physician performance reporting at Pennsylvania IDN evolves with more transparency
LaborConnect™
Productivity
- Maryland healthcare system saves more than $5 million using Premier labor management program with direction from Performance Partner
- Western N.C. hospital saves more than $3.6 million in six months with LaborConnectTM
Savings from proactive labor management programs
- New Mexico system realizes $10 million in labor saving with Premier’s OperationsAdvisor® in 2009; expects savings of $7 million more in 2010
- OperationsAdvisor helps Chicago IDN save $21-plus million improving productivity by 350 FTEs with enhanced labor management
- Midwest IDN to save $2.6 million through improved human resource management
- Labor management program saves health system $5 million
- Catholic health system saves $125 million; performance partners play key role
- Kentucky Baptist hospitals reduce labor expense nearly $70 million
- Catholic Healthcare Partners generates $56 million in savings
SafetyConnect™
Antibiotic management
- SafetySurveillor® alerts allow Missouri hospital to intervene more quickly with appropriate drug therapy for critical patients
- University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics’ antibiotic stewardship
More time for education
- Premier SafetySurveillor helps MO hospital infection prevention and control program go paperless allowing more time for staff education
- SafetySurveillor frees infection control nurses to spend time educating staff
Reducing infections
- Automated safety surveillance product allows reporting of influenza cases in minutes after new public health requirements around H1N1 outbreak
- With electronic surveillance hospital performs hospital-wide urinary tract infection quality initiative; lower infection rate leads to savings
- Alegent Health saves nearly $200,000 by eliminating MRSA screening for ICU
- Alegent saves nearly $1.7M in just six months after installing infection tracking tool
- Automated surgical site infection surveillance technology allows St. Elizabeth Healthcare to improve scrutiny while reducing staff time
- O'Connor Hospital identifies Clostridium difficile cluster; makes timely intervention with corrective measures
QUEST: High Performing Hospitals
- Actively participating in QUEST® collaborative helps SSM St. Mary’s Good Samaritan attain strategic goals
- Baptist Memorial Hospital implements changes to reduce mortality rate
- St. Luke’s Miners Memorial Hospital implements simple solutions to become top performer
- Participation in QUEST initiative is helping Carle Foundation Hospital implement five-year strategic plan
HQID™ – CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (Pay for Performance)
- Palomar Pomerado Health’s Opal Reinbold said, “Participating in the HQID project has allowed us to enhance focus on evidence-based care”
- “The collaborative nature [of HQID] offered us a chance to benchmark against other leading hospitals,” Baptist Health South Florida CQO said
- “From the beginning, . . . our physicians were engaged and concerned about improving care for patients,” Elizabeth Popwell, Cleveland Regional
- “. . . we made a number of adjustments that created an overall cultural shift and a drive toward perfection,” Aurora’s Patrick Falvey observed
- In less than three years WV hospital moves from one of the lower performing hospitals on surgery “core measures” to a top performer
- Oregon hospital makes significant strides toward 99 percent reliability rate on core quality measures
- Florida hospital becomes HQID top performer
- Bon Secours Baltimore Health System improves AMI pay-for-performance scores
Premier Consulting Solutions™
Premier Performance Partner Program™
Premier Research Services™
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