June 16, 2006
Bulletin:
Performance Pays: High quality care cost less and saves lives
Audio-conference/broadcast *: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 - 3:45-4:45 p.m. (EST)
Premier invites you to participate in a free broadcast of a program that will feature groundbreaking evidence that higher quality patient care does reduce cost and mortality. This program will feature the results of a study of hospitals that are involved in the Premier-CMS Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project, a pay-for-performance initiative. Speakers:
Premier:
- Richard Norling, President and CEO, Premier
- Stephanie Alexander, Senior Vice President,
Premier Healthcare Informatics - Douglas Hawthorne, President and CEO,
Texas Health Resources, and
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Premier
CMS
- Mark Wynn, PhD, Director,
Division of Payment Policy Demonstrations,
Office of Research, Development and Information,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Register now at www.premierinc.com/p4p.
* Note: The format will be an audio-conference accompanied by slides on the Internet and broadcast live from Premier’s Annual Breakthroughs Conference in Orlando.
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