Onsite Management Engineering
Performance Engineers
Premier Performance Partner Program
Premier's Performance Partners work directly in your hospital or health system as trusted advisors to the leadership team and are an in-house link to Premier's benchmarking and educational resource network.
Premier Performance Partner programs provide unparalleled, on-site customer-focused performance improvement expertise. These programs have been applying management science to improve healthcare for more than 38 years. Premier is recognized nationally as a leading organization for industrial engineering and process improvement talent in healthcare.
Premier's Performance Partner programs drive high-quality,
cost-effective patient care through a focus on:
- Labor management program administration (productivity, staffing to demand, position control)
- Patient throughput improvement
- Operational and clinical process improvement
- Regulatory and public data reporting improvement (focused process of care and clinical outcomes improvement)
- Clinical utilization and efficiency improvement (LOS reduction, supply standardization, etc.)
- Comparative benchmarking
- Thought leadership and knowledge transfer through Premier's network of products, services, experts, and education events
These areas of focus drive impact:
For Premier's fiscal year 2007, Performance Partner programs provided partnering organizations an average return on investment of 9:1, as measured by the documented and customer validated savings in comparison to the program cost.
In addition, hospitals with our programs in place more than a year operate with a 4.0 percent lower FTE/AOB resulting in an average of 57.6 worked FTE less than peer hospitals.