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Premier healthcare alliance experts to lead discussions on healthcare
pay-for-performance, Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (October 31, 2007) – Leaders from the Premier healthcare alliance will speak around the country in November, sharing insights regarding the company’s 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, along with pay-for-performance (P4P) based on Premier’s Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Premier President and CEO Richard A. Norling will discuss the Baldrige Award as a keynote speaker at both the Vermont Council for Quality 2007 Fall Quality Conference November 1 in Stowe, VT, and at the Excellence in Missouri Conference on November 15 in Jefferson City, MO. Norling will also be a keynote speaker at the National Business Coalition on Health 12th Annual Conference on November 12 in Scottsdale, AZ, discussing value based purchasing as it related to the HQID project.
Chief Administrative Officer Jena Abernathy will also discuss the Baldrige Award at the Leadership Best Practices Summit on November 30 in Arlington, VA.
Additional events at which Premier representatives will be featured include:
- Buffalo Hospital Supply, November 1, Buffalo, NY;
- Duke University Health Sector Advisory Council, November 2, Durham, NC;
- West Virginia Medical Institute Annual Regional Meeting, November 2, Charleston, WV;
- Temple University Healthcare Management Alumni Association’s Annual Conference, November 9, Philadelphia, PA;
- Nurse Faculty/Nurse Executive Summit, November 30, Scottsdale, AZ.
The HQID is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. As part of the project, more than 250 hospitals submit clinical quality data to Premier through the Perspective™ data warehouse. CMS, which approved a three-year extension of the project in February, then uses the data to identify and reward top performers in five clinical areas.
Premier recently launched “QUEST: High Performing Hospitals” based on many of the same principles used in the HQID project. The goal of QUEST is to improve patient safety and quality in the nation’s hospitals while safely reducing healthcare costs. QUEST participating hospitals report data to Premier on a set of clearly defined performance measures encompassing aspects of quality, efficiency, safety and patient satisfaction. Premier analyzes the data, facilitates sharing of best practices, and provides incentives for top-performing hospitals.
About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 48,500 other healthcare sites, Premier
is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to
improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by
not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates the one of the nation's largest
healthcare purchasing networks, the most comprehensive repository of
hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest
policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups
in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte,
N.C., Philadelphia, and Washington. For more information, visit
www.premierinc.com.