CENTERLINE
                                                            October 2012
In This Issue
Events & Education
Feature: The Company That Solved Health Care
Center News Briefs
Latest from John's Blog 
Payment Experiment Forum

Heart Surgery Payment Initiative Aims at Health Care Reform

 

Medical Home Pilots Spur Delivery and Payment Reform

  

Six Payment Reforms to Support Accountable Acute Care

Products from the Center

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Upcoming Events & Education

The Center supports your leadership team with customized education on topics such as A3 thinking, strategy deployment, lean leadership behaviors, and lean management systems.

 

Remaining 2012 Lean Management System Workshops

Learn how ThedaCare applies Lean principles to create a management system that supports improvement and sustainment of standard work, and how to develop people into problem solvers using PDSA thinking by attending our Lean Management System workshop.

 

Don't miss out - there are only two more sessions in 2012. Click here to learn more.

 

New Workshop Topics for 2013

We're unrolling two new workshop programs next year, which will offer deeper lean learning in new areas. The workshops are being piloted this fall. Watch for future details about 2013 dates!

  • Leveraging IT to Close the Value Gap in Healthcare 
    A two-day workshop taught by Mike Orzen, co-author of Lean IT, Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation.
  • Fundamentals of Lean for Healthcare Leaders 
     
    A day-and-a-half workshop taught by Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen.

 

If you'd like to be place on a waiting list for this fall's pilots, contact Sara McCarl at [email protected].

The Company That Solved Health Care 

 

The Center is excited to offer The Company That Solved Health Care, by board member John Torinus, as part of our expanding resource library.

 

The book follows one medium-sized company that set out to tame the beast of rising healthcare costs, employing best practices and cutting-edge ideas. Serigraph Inc., a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of decorative parts, reduced cost increases to less than two percent while improving the quality of healthcare for its employees.

 

The Company That Solved Health Care describes the fascinating details of Serigraph's program and shows how any company can achieve similar results. This book is essential reading for any manager responsible for his or her company's healthcare expenses, any academic  thinker involved in the healthcare debate, and anyone who wants to better understand why healthcare costs have been rising and what can be done to achieve price stability while improving patient care.

 

Click here to learn more about the book or to purchase a copy.

 
News Briefs

Network Spotlight: Christie Clinic

Christie Clinic, located in Champaign, IL, has been a member of the Healthcare Value Network since 2010 and, in that time, it has proven to be a successful catalyst of the lean journey. With more than 40 departments and 35 specialties, Christie Clinic is one of the largest physician-owned group medical practices in the country.

 

First Shingo-based Lean Healthcare Assessment 2010

 

In 2010, Christie Clinic volunteered to test the Shingo-based Healthcare Value Network Assessment process and continues to use it today. The assessment serves as a pivotal lever to understand current processes, determine gaps from world-recognized standards, and identify possible next steps to address those gaps.

 

Upcoming Dates: November 8 and December 18.

 

To schedule a visit for your leadership team, contact Kristi Bilek at (217)366-6208 or [email protected].

 

Health Care a Key Issue in Presidential Debate
Network member Cleveland Clinic was mentioned several times in this week's debate, along with fellow healthcare leaders Mayo Clinic and Intermountain Healthcare, as an example of how to effectively keep costs down.
 
Both President Obama and Governor Romney also noted the ideas of payment reform and pay-for-performance.

The ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value is transforming the healthcare industry to deliver higher value through experiments, collaboration and education that integrates three interdependent components: delivery, transparency and payment. In these areas, the Center spreads learning and accelerates improvement.

www.createvalue.org