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Texas Health hospitals named top performers; Dallas Business
Journal; 1/5/12: Five Texas Health Resources hospitals have been
named top performing hospitals as part of Premier's national quality
improvement initiative.
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UH Geauga, UH Richmond among top
performing hospitals; The (Willoughby, OH) News-Herald; 1/2/12:
Three hospitals in the University Hospitals system – UH Geauga, UH Geneva,
and UH Richmond medical centers – are among the 2011 top performing
hospitals in the Premier healthcare alliance's national QUEST
collaborative.
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Geisinger Medical Center, Geisinger Wyoming
Valley Medical Center among 2011 top performing hospitals; Geisinger news
release; 12/27/11: Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Wyoming
Valley Medical Center are among the 2011 top performing hospitals in
the Premier healthcare alliance's national QUEST collaborative.
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PRMC named top performer; Delmarva Now;
12/26/11: Peninsula Regional Medical Center, a 363-bed facility in
Salisbury, has been named a top performing hospital in Premier's QUEST
collaborative for the second year in a row.
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Hawaii launches first-ever statewide VBP program with private payer;
HFMA; 8/1/11: Advanced Hospital Care, the first statewide VBP program involving a private insurer, is a partnership between the Hawaii Medical Service Association and the Premier healthcare alliance, whose own national collaborative, QUEST High Performing Hospitals, is the model for the new initiative.
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Lives saved, costs reduced: Preparing for health reform; Baldrige Blog; 5/11/11:
Premier's QUEST collaborative saves more than 22,000 lives and more than
$2 billion in costs. Member hospitals make a difference by working together on innovative solutions to improve patient care, which have resulted in saving lives, safely reducing the cost of care, delivering reliable and effective care, improving patient safety, and improving the patient experience.
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Saving lives, saving money; Hospital & Health Networks; 3/14/11:
Premier CEO Susan DeVore discusses the quality improvements and cost savings from Premier's QUEST program.
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QUEST results featured on American Medical News satellite radio;
American Medical News Satellite Radio; 1/6/11:
Dr. Richard Bankowitz with the Premier healthcare alliance is interviewed on American Medical News satellite radio. Click
"full story" below to hear him discuss the latest results from Premier's QUEST initiative. His interview begins at about 6:50 in the clip.
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Hospital strategies for successful performance management;
HFMA; 1/3/11:
Premier members who participate in QUEST discuss strategies for cutting cost, improving quality, obtaining physician buy-in, making use of benchmarking data, and leveraging organizational structures for change.
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Effort aims to inform providers and patients about safe, cost-effective treatments for certain clinical conditions;
Healthcare Purchasing News; 1/3/11:
Premier healthcare alliance has launched the QUEST Comparative Effectiveness & Innovation Program (QCEIP) in an effort to inform the provider community and general public about which interventions drive improved outcomes and cost-savings.
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A successful quest to bend the cost curve; Healthcare Financial Management Association; 12/17/10:
"This is one of the most exciting projects in terms of results," said
IHI President and CEO Maureen Bisognano about the QUEST®: High
Performing Hospitals national collaborative.
By comparing performance and sharing best practices, 157 charter
hospitals in the QUEST national collaborative have saved more than
22,000 lives in two years – and reduced healthcare spending by $2.13
billion.
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Quality initiative claims it saved 22,000 lives; American Medical News; 12/13/10:
Premier's QUEST initiative helped hospitals cut expenses by more than $2 billion. "The transparency, sharing the data openly in the collaborative, really set up a friendly competition," says Richard Bankowitz, MD, Premier's chief medical officer.
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Memorial receives QUEST award;
Savannah Morning News; 12/12/10: For the second year in a row,
Memorial University Medical Center has been recognized for quality
performance in a nationwide hospital quality improvement project. The
Premier Inc., healthcare alliance QUEST: High-Performing Hospitals
initiative is a voluntary, three-year program that includes 157
not-for-profit hospitals across 35 states.
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MUMC recognized for improving quality
while reducing costs; American Consumer News; 12/8/10: For the
second year in a row, Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah,
Georgia, has been recognized for quality performance in a nationwide
hospital quality improvement project. The Premier Inc. healthcare alliance
QUEST: High-Performing Hospitals initiative is a voluntary, three-year
program that includes 157 not-for-profit hospitals across 35 states.
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Premier shows dramatic quality and cost
improvement results with QUEST initiative; Healthcare Informatics;
11/30/10: The marquee headline is enough to grab the attention of
readers in and of itself: "157 hospitals in national collaborative save
22,164 lives, $2.13 billion over two years." Then there's the deck: "If all
of the nation's hospitals could replicate these results, an additional
64,000 lives and $23 billion could be saved annually." But those are indeed
the results being documented by the national collaborative called QUEST:
High Performing Hospitals, an initiative being sponsored by the
Charlotte-based Premier healthcare alliance.
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Getting value for our healthcare dollars;
Third Coast Digest; 11/29/10:
Aurora Health Care is among several hospital systems nationwide that have been voluntarily participating in projects aimed at reducing inefficient practices like ordering unnecessary medical tests that increase costs but do nothing to improve patient care.
Last week, Aurora was recognized as a "top performer" in the second year of
a three-year national project to improve the quality of patient care while
at the same time lowering costs.
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St. Luke's Hospital named top performer
in national performance improvement initiative; St. Louis Globe-Democrat;
11/24/10: St. Luke's Hospital has been named a top performer for
providing high quality, safe and cost-effective patient care in the second
year of a voluntary three-year nationwide hospital performance improvement
initiative. The Premier healthcare alliance QUEST: High Performing Hospitals
collaborative includes more than 200 not-for-profit hospitals across the
United States.
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157 hospitals in national collaborative
save $2.13B over two years; Healthcare Finance News; 11/23/10:
Hospitals participating in the Premier healthcare alliance QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals national collaborative have saved an estimated 22,164
lives and reduced healthcare spending by $2.13 billion. If all hospitals in
the country had been able to achieve similar results, estimates project an
additional 64,000 lives and $23 billion could have been saved.
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Good results from QUEST safety program;
Health Data Management; 11/22/10: The Premier alliance of
provider organizations estimates 157 hospitals participating in its QUEST
High Performing Hospitals patient safety program have saved 22,164 lives and
cut spending by $2.13 billion during the past two years.
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157 hospitals in national collaborative
save 22,164 lives, $2.13 billion over two years; Premier website;
11/22/10: Hospitals participating in the Premier healthcare alliance
QUEST: High Performing Hospitals national collaborative have saved an
estimated 22,164 lives and reduced healthcare spending by $2.13 billion. If
all hospitals in the country had been able to achieve similar results,
estimates project an additional 64,000 lives and $23 billion could have been
saved.
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Texas Health H-E-B recognized in
improvement project; Fort Worth Business Press; 11/3/10: Texas
Health Harris Methodist Hospital H-E-B was recognized for the second year as
a top performer in the QUEST program, a voluntary, three-year project
overseen by Premier Inc. healthcare alliance.
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Pennsylvania health system seeks
quality-driven success; Healthcare Finance News; 8/30/10: St.
Luke's Hospital & Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., has leveraged its
participation in three different quality initiatives to improve the quality
of healthcare delivery. The health system's push toward quality started with
Premier's Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration, a pay-for-performance
initiative. A second Premier project, the QUEST initiative, broadened the
dimensions of quality measurement and highlighted the areas St. Luke's
needed to improve, officials said. This past spring, the newest Premier
initiative, the Accountable Care Organization Readiness Collaborative, is
helping St. Luke's get ready to apply to become an Accountable Care
Organization in 2011.
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Successful infection control and automation: Strong links;
Healthcare Informatics; 8/19/10:
Salah Qutaishat, Premier's director of surveillance and epidemiology, discusses Premier's QUEST initiative and efforts to reduce healthcare-acquired infections.
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Methodist enrolls in national program to
reduce expenses, improve quality; San Antonio Business Journal;
7/22/10: Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio has joined a
national effort aimed at addressing the strategic implications of health
care reform, while improving quality and reducing costs. Methodist, a joint
venture of Methodist Healthcare Ministries and Hospital Corporation of
America, will participate in the QUEST collaborative.
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San Antonio health system joins Premier
healthcare alliance quality improvement efforts to advance patient care,
reduce costs; Premier website; 7/22/10: Methodist Healthcare
System of San Antonio, Texas, has joined a trio of Premier healthcare
alliance efforts aimed at addressing the strategic implications of health
reform while driving quality and cost improvements.
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Harm avoidance, reducing costs topics of
discussion at Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST collaborative national
meeting; Premier website; 7/12/10: As healthcare providers
prepare for the implications of reform, the more than 200 hospitals
participating in the QUEST: High Performing Hospitals collaborative are
already achieving the goals of improving patient care and reducing costs.
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Premier healthcare alliance experts to
discuss how to provide high quality, cost-effective care at national events
in July; Premier website; 6/29/10: Leaders from the Premier
healthcare alliance will speak across the country in July discussing methods
to succeed under new healthcare reform scenarios by improving care quality,
safety and cost-effectiveness.
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Cover story: Good fit? Reform links payment to quality; Hospitals & Health Networks; 6/9/10:
Hospitals are likely to be continuously challenged by changes in the
value-based purchasing (VBP) measures, says Blair Childs, senior vice president of public affairs for Premier healthcare alliance. "New measures will be piloted by CMS in the Hospital Compare website and moved into VBP, so keep focused on the Hospital Compare measures," he advises. But because VBP is a zero-sum game, hospitals will have to compete to maintain full payment.
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New Accountable Care Organization
Collaboratives will focus on creating healthier communities; Premier
website; 5/20/10: The Premier healthcare alliance and 19 of its
leading health system members have launched two Accountable Care
Organization (ACO) Collaboratives designed to evolve today's sick care
system to one that improves health in local communities. Working together,
participating health systems will create the first ACOs in the market,
accepting accountability for the health of more than 1.2 million patients
and committing to lower costs by improving care coordination, efficiency,
quality and patient satisfaction.
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Premier healthcare alliance experts to
discuss healthcare reform legislation, ACOs, patient safety and quality
improvement at national events in May; Premier website; 4/29/10:
Leaders from the Premier healthcare alliance will speak across the country
in May discussing healthcare reform legislation, accountable care
organizations (ACOs), patient safety, green initiatives, and how to improve
quality while safely reducing associated costs.
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Premier healthcare alliance experts to
discuss health reform legislation, HIT and healthcare performance
improvement at national events in April; Premier website; 3/31/10:
Leaders from the Premier healthcare alliance will speak around the country
in April sharing insights regarding the new health reform legislation,
healthcare information technology (HIT), supply chain improvement and how to
excel in quality while safely reducing hospital costs.
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How technology can help drive collaborative performance improvement;
HFMA; 3/5/10: Richard Bankowitz, MD, chief medical officer with
Premier, explains that the popularity of peer-to-peer quality and cost
improvement collaborative projects are increasing. One reason is that
providers realize collaborative learning works.
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A QUEST to improve healthcare cost and quality; HealthLeaders Media;
2/5/10: Premier's QUEST initiative helps hospitals to do what they have
trouble doing alone by establishing a framework and data center that allows
hospitals to compare themselves against each other.
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Premier healthcare alliance expert to
discuss national quality and cost improvement collaborative at HFMA winter
conference; Premier website; 1/20/10: Premier healthcare
alliance expert Leslie Schultz, PhD, CPHQ, senior director of QUEST and
Knowledge Transfer, will discuss Premier's national quality and cost
improvement collaborative successes at the Healthcare Financial Management
Association's 2010 Mid-Winter Conference on January 21 in Orlando, Fla.
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Reducing sepsis mortality and costs at
CAMC; Healthcare Financial Management Association; 1/12/10: When
staff at Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) dug into benchmark mortality
data, they found an obvious place to focus their quality improvement
efforts: severe sepsis, a complex and life-threatening reaction to
infection.
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Premier's QUEST hospitals 'move the dots' to save lives; Healthcare
IT News; 1/11/10: QUEST hospitals track five measures to help drive
performance, says Richard Bankowitz, MD, Premier's chief medical officer.
The intent, says Bankowitz, is to boost performance and save money by
"sharing knowledge and sharing data."
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Small changes help Premier's QUEST
hospitals save $577M; Healthcare Finance News; 1/11/10: Everyone
in healthcare is looking to "bend the cost curve." Hospital executives
taking part in the Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST program say they're
doing so by making small changes – to the tune of $577 million last year in
savings.
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A long way to go; Modern Healthcare;
12/7/09: Premier's six-year-long Hospital Quality Incentive
Demonstration (HQID) project was conducted in partnership with the CMS. The
program shows that providers, focused on process improvement, can bring
about systematic improvement, says Susan DeVore, Premier's president and
CEO.
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Premier healthcare alliance, hospital
experts to discuss successes in QUEST nationwide hospital collaborative at
IHI National Forum; Premier website; 12/3/09: Leaders from
hospitals nationwide and the Premier healthcare alliance will speak at the
Institute for Health Improvement (IHI) 21st Annual National Forum on Quality
Improvement in Healthcare on December 8 in Orlando, Fla., sharing insights
regarding Premier's QUEST®: High Performing Hospitals program and
improving quality while safely reducing costs.
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Seven percent of Premier hospitals
increase lives saved - can the other 93 percent follow suit?; The New
Health Dialogue Blog; 11/12/09: Premier just reported excellent
quality results from a year-long initiative. It's called QUEST, which stands
for Quality, Efficiency, Safety, and Transparency. The participating
hospitals calculated that they saved more than 8,000 lives.
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More than 30 hospitals join expansion of
Premier healthcare alliance QUEST® collaborative; Premier website; 11/12/09: More than 30 hospitals have joined the expansion of
the Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST®: High Performing
Hospitals collaborative. Approximately 200 hospitals representing 31 states
are now participating in this project, which is currently linking the two
main goals of health reform proposals being considered by Congress: quality
improvement and cost reduction.
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What health reform looks like in the real
world, right now; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health reform blog;
11/10/09: Susan DeVore, the CEO of Premier, writes about the lessons
health reformers can learn from Premier's efforts to drive quality
improvement and costs savings in hospitals.
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Good Shepherd earns national honors;
Longview (TX) News-Journal; 11/8/09: Good Shepherd Medical Center
recently was recognized by two national organizations for providing low-cost
quality care and for being honored by the patients it serves. It saved on
average $1,090 per patient, according to results of a study of 157
not-for-profit hospitals in 31 states titled "QUEST: High Performing
Hospitals." The information was released by Premier Inc. health care
alliance and included urban and rural, large and small and teaching and
non-teaching facilities.
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Kettering Health Network hospitals fare
well in voluntary rankings; Dayton (OH) Daily News; 10/30/09:
Four Kettering Health Network hospitals ranked among the top 32 performing
hospitals in a voluntary, three-year project that included 157 nonprofit
hospitals in 31 states.
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Hospital program focuses on reduced
costs, improved care; Savannah (GA) Morning News; 10/28/09:
Improving patient care, while streamlining costs is a necessary but
challenging chore for hospitals these days. With that in mind, the two
largest hospital systems in the greater-Savannah area are taking part in
QUEST, a voluntary project of Premier Inc., a nationwide hospital
collaborative. Just this month, Memorial University Medical Center has been
recognized for quality performance in three areas.
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St. Mary's recognized for top
performance; The (Huntington, WV) Herald-Dispatch; 10/28/09: St.
Mary's Medical Center has been recognized as a top performer in a new health
care initiative called "QUEST: High Performing Hospitals." QUEST was created
by the Premier Inc. health care alliance as a way to share data and best
practices across the country to improve patient outcomes. QUEST is a
voluntary three-year project made up of 157 hospitals across 31 states.
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Quality initiative saved $577 million in
first year, hospital group announces; The Bureau of National Affairs;
10/26/09: Hospitals participating in a nationwide quality collaboration
have saved an estimated total of 8,043 lives and $577 million in the first
year of Premier's QUEST initiative. The three-year program includes 166
not-for-profit hospitals participating across 31 states.
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The holy grail of saving lives and saving money found to be
achievable – again!; Gerson Lehrman Group; 10/23/09: As the health
care reform march continues to drone on in D.C., we continue to hear
naysayers claim that saving money will result in losing lives. Once again,
in the results of the most recent study from the Premier health care
alliance's national collaborative, QUEST: High Performing Hospitals, the
Cassandras have been proven wrong.
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Hospital collaborative finds sharing data
saves costs, lives; HealthLeaders Media; 10/23/09: Hospitals
participating in the first year of the Premier healthcare alliance's
national collaborative, QUEST, saved an estimate 8,043 lives and $577
million by focusing on areas to improve healthcare. "This group of hospitals
did agree to be transparent with each other," said Susan DeVore, Premier's
president and CEO, at a Washington, DC conference unveiling the results.
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Aurora hospitals rank high in national
initiative; The Business Journal of Milwaukee; 10/22/09: Five
Aurora Health Care hospitals have been named among the "top performers" in a
national quality and safety initiative. The initiative, QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals, is intended to act as a springboard for hospitals to
reach new levels of performance and public reporting while informing the
public policy debate over the future of health care.
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Texas Health Azle achieves top
performance in national quality collaborative; Texas Health Resources Web
site; 10/21/09: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle has
demonstrated that improving the quality of care can lead to lower costs of
care during Year 1 of a national hospital improvement collaborative called
QUEST: High Performing Hospitals.
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Texas Health Cleburne achieves top
performance in national quality collaborative; Texas Health Resources website; 10/21/09: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne has
improved quality of care, reduced mortality, and maintained a low
cost-per-discharge when compared to other hospitals nationwide during Year 1
of a national hospital improvement collaborative called QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals.
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Texas Health HEB achieves top performance
in national quality collaborative; Texas Health Resources website;
10/21/09: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford
has demonstrated that improving the quality of care can lead to lower costs
of care during Year 1 of a national hospital improvement collaborative
called QUEST: High Performing Hospitals.
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Bethesda North and Good Samaritan hospitals
in top quartile for quality in national collaborative; TriHealth website;
10/21/09: As policymakers struggle to find solutions that improve healthcare
quality and control spending, Bethesda North and Good Samaritan
hospitals – the anchor hospitals for TriHealth – are showing that higher quality
care can lead to a lower cost of care through their participation in a
national hospital improvement collaborative.
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Top-performing hospitals; (Fort Worth,
TX) Star-Telegram; 10/21/09: Three Texas Health Resources hospitals
in the Fort Worth area have received top performance ratings in a national
collaborative that’s designed to improve care and reduce costs. Texas Health
Harris Methodist Hurst-Euless-Bedford, Texas Health Azle and Texas Health
Cleburne were rated among the top 25 percent of participating hospitals
through the national collaborative called QUEST: High Performing Hospitals,
according to Arlington-based Texas Health Resources.
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Hospital quality and safety initiative saves $577M; Healthcare
Finance News; 10/21/09: Hospitals participating in the Premier
QUEST: High Performing Hospitals national collaborative have saved an
estimated 8,043 lives and $577 million in one year, according to an analysis
from Premier. "These remarkable results highlight what can be achieved when
hospitals assume the leadership needed to set high goals, focus on
continuous improvement and commit to action that yields positive outcomes
for patients," said Susan DeVore, Premier's president and CEO.
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MUMC recognized for improving quality
while reducing costs; Memorial University Medical Center website;
10/21/09: Memorial University Medical Center (MUMC) in Savannah, Georgia, has been
recognized for quality performance in three areas in a nationwide hospital
quality improvement project. Memorial University Medical Center saved an
average $1,089 of per patient as a participant in the Premier Inc.,
healthcare alliance QUEST: High-Performing Hospitals, a voluntary,
three-year project made up of 157 not-for-profit hospitals across 31 states,
including urban/rural, large/small, and teaching/non-teaching facilities.
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SSM-St. Louis hospitals improving patient
care; SSM Health Care website; 10/21/09: SSM DePaul Health
Center, SSM St. Joseph Health Center, and SSM St. Mary's Health Center have
been named top performing hospitals in the Premier healthcare alliance
QUEST: High-Performing Hospitals initiative.
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Nationwide hospital collaborative saves
more than 8,000 lives and $577 million in costs in one year; Premier website; 10/21/09: As policymakers struggle to find practical solutions
that improve healthcare quality and control spending, hospitals
participating in the Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST: High Performing
Hospitals national collaborative have saved an estimated total of 8,043
lives and $577 million in one year. Of the approximately 2.3 million
patients treated annually in these hospitals, 24,818 additional patients
received treatments that met the highest quality patient care standards when
compared to baseline performance at the outset of the project.
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Amid heated health debate, Baystate makes
quality a top priority; Baystate Health website; 9/2/09: With
the successful completion of one pioneering healthcare-quality initiative,
new participation in another, and a third consecutive national recognition
from U.S. News and World Report, Baystate Medical Center is continuing its
leadership in ensuring that patients here — and across the country — receive
high-quality care. The hospital is one of about 250 hospitals in the nation
to join a six-year pilot program with the Centers for Medicare and Medicare
Services (CMS) and the Premier Healthcare Alliance. At the conclusion of the
project's fourth year, Baystate Medical Center (BMC) was named a top
performer for hip and knee replacement, and was recognized for continued
success in all four of the other clinical areas on which the project
focused: acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure,
pneumonia, and coronary artery bypass surgery.
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Yale obstetrics safety plan cuts adverse events by 40 percent; American Medical News;
5/18/09: Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut cut adverse obstetrics outcomes by about 40 percent after implementing a comprehensive
patient safety program. Included in the Yale-New Haven strategy is
participation in the Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative and creation of
an obstetrics safety nurse position. While the initiative's results will
not be released until next spring, Kathy Connolly, principal of women's
services with Premier Consulting Solutions, said the early results are
encouraging enough that Premier will start accepting more hospitals in
the project in September.
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Premier healthcare alliance to expand
participation in initiative to eliminate preventable birth injuries;
Premier website; 5/14/09: The Premier healthcare alliance has
launched a second Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative (PSI), a national
collaborative designed to achieve the consistent delivery of evidence-based
care with the goal of eliminating preventable birth-related injuries and
deaths.
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WHO initiates worldwide campaign to promote hand hygiene;
HealthLeaders Media; 5/6/09: The World Health Organization's (WHO)
Alliance for Patient Safety Tuesday officially kicked off its "Save Lives:
Clean Your Hands" initiative to encourage hospitals and healthcare
facilities worldwide to raise awareness of hand hygiene to reduce often
preventable healthcare-associated infections. The Premier healthcare
alliance has been promoting the WHO initiative to hospitals participating in
its QUEST performance and quality improvement collaborative.
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Using data to change processes;
Health Data Management; 5/1/09: Data mining can be the
foundation for meaningful changes in the practice of medicine. Inova Health
System has evidence that proves this is far more than just a hypothesis.
Inova is using Web-based data mining software called Quality Manager from
Premier Inc., a Charlotte, N.C.-based purchasing alliance. It's a
participant in Premier's QUEST, a quality improvement benchmarking project.
The alliance recently announced that it will expand the project beyond the
original 166 hospitals.
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Cover story: The ultimate QUEST;
The Journal of Healthcare Contracting; 3/09-4/09 issue: This
series of articles focuses on Premier's QUEST™: High Performing Hospitals
project and the QUEST Comparative Innovation Program. It features interviews
with Premier's Susan DeVore, Mike Alkire, Richard Bankowitz and Andy Brailo,
as well as alliance members Aurora Health Care, Gaston Memorial Hospital and
Kettering Health Network. "I believe (QUEST) is the model for healthcare
improvement," says DeVore. According to Alkire, "The collaborative nature of
QUEST allows participants to identify the high performers and learn from
them." Says Jan Mathews from Gaston, "All of the hospitals participating in
QUEST are sharing data. We are helping each other and looking at patient
care across the nation."
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Press release; 3/18/09: Premier healthcare alliance to expand participation in cost and quality improvement collaborative, launches QUEST 2009
Tech efforts help hospitals improve
infection control; Modern Healthcare; 2/10/09:
Health Sciences South Carolina, the South Carolina Hospital Association
and the Premier healthcare alliance have announced a collaboration aimed at
disseminating research and best practices throughout the 65 hospitals that
are participating statewide. Two other quality projects Premier has worked
on with national and federal organizations – QUEST and the CMS/Premier
Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration – have shown these types of
collaborations and standardized efforts can lead to improvement in care,
said Susan DeVore, Premier’s chief operating officer. “We know this works if
you mobilize hospitals and you mobilize data-capture,” she added.
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Putting products to the test;
Hospitals & Health Networks; 12/15/08:
This article looks at the Premier QUEST Comparative Innovation Program,
featuring comments from Premier Chief Operating Officer Susan DeVore and
Premier Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Blair Childs.
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Premier touts quality of care effort as model
for health reform; Inside
Health Policy/Inside CMS; 12/5/08:
A quality of care program developed to change the culture of the
hospital delivery system by offering a method to measure improved quality
while driving down costs is being touted by Premier Healthcare Alliance as
an initiative that could fold into a comprehensive health reform plan. A
health care financial specialist told Inside CMS it is unlikely that most
hospitals could significantly reform their delivery methods to improve care,
but Premier representatives say the quality, efficiency, safety and
transparency (QUEST) program is aimed at just that and could be applied
elsewhere.
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Hospital group seeks to reduce mortality,
improve quality of care; BNA;
12/5/08:
Patient mortality could be reduced by 17 percent and reliability of care
could increase 13 percent under a new program designed by a leading hospital
collaborative.
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Press release; 12/3/08: QUEST - High Performing Hospitals Collaborative: Nationwide hospital collaborative seeking to reduce mortality by 17 percent, improve reliability of care by nearly 13 percent
Improvements on mortality figures, safety
predicted; Modern Healthcare; 12/3/08:
Backers of Premier's QUEST collaborative, a national three-year hospital
quality and cost improvement project, estimate the effort could reduce
hospital patient mortality by 17% and improve reliability of care by 13%,
provided its participating hospitals meet the project's quality goals.
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Hospital
initiative could reduce patient mortality, increase reliability of care,
company says; CQ HealthBeat; 12/3/08:
The Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST hospital initiative could reduce
patient mortality by 17 percent and could improve reliability of care by 13
percent if the nationwide project obtains its goals, according to an
analysis the company released Wednesday.
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Premier healthcare alliance launches
QUEST new technology program to promote healthcare innovation; Premier
website; 4/16/08:
The Premier healthcare alliance today launched the QUEST Supplier Innovation
Program, focused on testing effectiveness of new healthcare technologies
through the QUEST: High Performing Hospitals initiative. The purpose of this
first-of-its kind program is to accelerate access to technologies proven to
be safe and effective.
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Never pay never again; Modern
Healthcare; 3/10/08:
This article looks at what hospitals are doing, including participating
in Premier's QUEST initiative, to prepare for CMS' IPPS ruling in October of
2008. Representatives from Texas health Resources, Summa Health System,
Kettering Medical Center and Premier are quoted.
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Transforming healthcare; Healthcare Exec;
1/08 issue:
This article discusses Premier’s efforts to transform the healthcare
system and features an extensive interview with Premier COO Susan DeVore.
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Press release; 12/19/07: Leading healthcare organizations to serve as advisors for comprehensive program to improve hospital quality, reduce costs
Premier launches expanded hospital quality initiative; Physician's
News Digest; 11/07 issue:
This article features a Q&A session with Premier Vice President and Medical
Director Richard Bankowitz, MD, regarding the Premier QUEST initiative.
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Premier launches comprehensive quality improvement project; Drug
Topics; 10/22/07:
A new project called QUEST by the healthcare alliance Premier Inc. is an
aggressive attempt to develop performance measures that improve quality and
lower costs.
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QUEST: Toward a new healthcare paradigm; HealthLeaders Media; 9/27/07:
This bylined article from Premier President and CEO Rick Norling
discusses the keys to transforming the U.S. healthcare system to improve
quality, highlighting the Premier QUEST project.
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Alegent Health is on the QUEST to improve
health care; Alegent Health website; 9/12/07:
Alegent Health in Omaha, NE, is taking its vision of delivering
world-class health care to new heights through the Premier "QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals" program.
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A QUEST to lower health care costs; The Oklahoman; 9/11/07: St. Anthony Hospital is on a quest to lower health care costs to patients. Make that QUEST. The Oklahoma City hospital is part of a group of 100 hospitals nationwide participating in a three-year program called "QUEST: High Performing Hospitals" that is designed to improve the quality and safety of patient care while safely reducing health care costs. St. Anthony is the only Oklahoma hospital participating in the QUEST program. St. Anthony will report data to the Premier healthcare alliance on a set of defined quality, efficiency, safety and patient satisfaction measures. Participating hospitals will share best practices and results from top performers to deliver the highest quality patient care at the lowest costs.
Premier announces pay-for-performance initiative; Modern Healthcare;
7/26/07:
A new pay-for-performance project aims to improve patient safety and quality
at approximately 100 hospitals nationwide, Premier announced. QUEST: High
Performing Hospitals – which focuses on quality, efficiency, safety, with
transparency – is a three-year program in which participating facilities
will develop and share best practices in five areas: mortality ratio, harm
avoidance, appropriate care, efficiency and patient satisfaction. The
project, which is not part of a CMS demonstration project, builds on
Premier’s Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration and the Institute for
Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives campaigns.
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Press release; 7/26/07: Premier healthcare alliance launches comprehensive project to improve hospital quality, reduce costs