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Advocacy |
 The legislature has been focused on attempting to pass a budget. As soon as their schedules are freed up, we are scheduling site visits with member CEOs, Government Affairs VPs/Directors, our lobbyist, Jon Smalley, and the legislators. Meetings will be held in your community. |
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Community Health |
Bronson HealthCare graciously hosted the Community Health Improvement workgroup meeting on September 22. The group completed the criteria for determining high and low value community health  programs.
To date, they have accomplished:
1. A summary of every member's community
health program - this ended up to be a book.
2. A philosophy for community benefit programs.
3. A criterion based methodology to approve new programs.
4. The high and low value program for evaluating existing programs.
At this meeting, the team heard a presentation by Terry Khan, Director Value Maximization, VHP, regarding dashboards. We are pursuing aligning our community programs with impacting the patient outcomes detailed on the dashboard. The first condition to explore is stroke. The workgroup is looking at ways to impact the time it takes for patients to realize they are having a stroke and get to the ED in a timely manner.
Stay tuned for more developments! |
 Value Maximization |
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Value Maximization Team Meeting
The Value Maximization Team held a meeting on September 15 at Value Health Partners in Grand Rapids. The team collaborated on how the clinical dashboards are used within their respective organizations. Some partner hospitals are using the dashboards as supportive data sources in their physician leadership meetings surrounding the evaluation and revision of order sets. The majority of quality leaders are using the dashboards to identify areas for clinical process improvement. The team has received 12 months of data (Jan-Dec 2008) with Q1 Mar 2009 to be released by mid-October.
Sparrow Hospital
Sparrow Hospital has obtained IRB approval for their Healthcare Performance Improvement Project focused on the management and improvement of peri-operative glucose led by Julie Felt, MD, MMM, CPE, Medical Director for Performance Improvement. Congratulations to the Sparrow team for their diligence in applying all the methods and tools they have learned to date for a focused quality improvement effort. HPI continues to meet October 13-15 at Prince Conference Center.
Northern Michigan Regional Hospital
Northern Michigan Regional Hospital is holding a video conference Grand Rounds Session on Wednesday, November 19, under the leadership of Colleen Allen, Director of Performance Improvement and Patient Safety. The speaker is Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP, on the topic: Bloodless Medicine and Surgery. Interested members may contact Sue Kaiser @ 231-487-4540 for details and CME information.
Surgical Hip Fracture Collaborative
The Surgical Hip Fracture Collaborative is commencing in early October focusing on the improvement of complications resulting from surgery.
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New Web Page Face Lift! |
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The Value Health Partners' web page will be under construction until the end of this year. The new and improved web page will have some new and exciting updates that will be valuable to all!
Will will keep you up to date on the completion of the new web page. |
