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 investment (ROI) from process improvement efforts.
Learn about how Premier won the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
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QualityConnect™
Length of Stay
- Medical center teams learn how to use QualityAdvisor™ to identify cost savings opportunities, build effective improvement plans.
- Midwest Texas system saves $3.8M by reducing LOS; QualityAdvisor™ helps identify opportunities, performance partner helps drive change
- 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
Clinical Quality Improvement/Resource Utilization
- Carolinas Medical Center-University's initiative to improve inpatient diabetes care reduces length of stay and saves more than $220,000
- "Participation in QUEST®, use of QualityAdvisor" help Geisinger hospitals implement sepsis initiative to successfully reduce sepsis mortality, LOS
- WI hospitals save $2.2M with guidance from Premier products
- NM hospital identifies $2M in savings with Premier's unique integrated tools
- Integrating Premier products provides information to help reduce blood costs
- 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
Physician performance reporting
- Premier helps Florida healthcare system on journey to be safest system in the nation
- QualityAdvisor™, QUEST® help Ohio medical center become top performers
- QualityAdvisor™ helps TX hospital meet Joint Commission requisites
- Hospital attributes $2.8M in savings to QualityAdvisor™ practitioner profile
- 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
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
Government-mandated infection reporting
- Premier's automated SafetySurveillor® helps Minnesota medical center
easily meet state department of health infection reporting requirements - Premier's automated
SafetySurveillor® product helps Kaleida Health's
5 hospitals effectively meet NY state department of health infection audit
Installing SafetySurveillor
More time for education
- SafetySurveillor® effectively monitors 3 SC hospitals without piles of paper
- 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
- SafetySurveillor® helps Tennessee hospitals drive CLABSI rate down
- 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
- 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
- Chief Nursing Officer and Administrator of Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville, SC, says QUEST® speeds improvements crucial to success under reform (video)
- North Mississippi Medical Center, Iuka's CEO says benchmarking against top hospitals in QUEST is a primary reason his hospital's significant improvement (video)
- TriHealth adopts QUEST® measures as part of strategic plan; comparison with others aligns with organizational culture of continuous quality improvement
- Illinois hospital drastically cuts CHF readmissions; clinic rate drops to 8%, well below usual double-digit rate
- NC system extends quality culture around Premier healthcare alliance?s QUEST national collaborative; data transparency one big key to success
- QualityAdvisor™, QUEST® help Ohio medical center become top performers
- QUEST® collaborative helps small hospital improve core measures
- PA health network's quality awards drive QUEST performance gains
- 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
Partnership for Care Transition
- Readiness assessment helps Connecticut hospital get ready for future ACO development
- Readiness assessment helps educate prepare Pennsylvania health network for ACO developments
- Readiness assessment helps Memphis' Methodist Healthcare, doctors prepare for possible ACO
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
Premier Performance Partners
- Premier healthcare alliance performance partner participates in efforts at Knoxville's Mercy Health Partners to reduce labor costs
- NC hospital saves $200,000 with operational assessment
Premier Awards
- Dr. Warren Austin, vice president for medical affairs at Bon Secours Maryview Medical Centerin Portsmouth, VA (video)
- Director of Clinical Outcomes Brenda Hogan, Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, TN, talks about her hospital's winning a 2010 Premier healthcare alliance Award for Quality (video)
- Palomar Pomerado Health Chief Quality Officer Opal Reinbold talks about her organization in Escondido, CA, winning the Premier healthcare alliance IDN Award for Quality in 2010 (video)
- Paoli (PA) Hospital President Barbara Tachovsky talks about her hospital winning a 2010 Premier healthcare alliance Award for Quality (video)
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