CENTERLINE - October 2014

Expanding Our Focus on Payment

We're excited to introduce a new effort focused on exploring payment systems that reward health outcomes instead of volume. Rachel Regan, formerly of LEI, joins us as program director and will facilitate payment experiments, connect network members who are working on similar payment initiatives, and work closely with payment leaders like Karen Timberlake, director of the Wisconsin-based Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform, to link payment with delivery and transparency.

"Payment initiatives are happening across the country. We want to bring together disparate experiments at a hospital level and kick it up to an industry-wide level." - Rachel Regan, program manager, payment

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NEW Analytics Site Visit

You may have seen our announcement last month about our new site visit, Linking Strategy, Performance Improvement and Analytics. Join us during one of three sessions this year: Oct. 28-29, Nov. 18-19, Dec. 17-18.

"While our traditional site visits focus on lean leadership at a high visionary level, this new visit teaches participants how to operationalize that learning by tying lean efforts to strategy using metrics and analytics." - Julie Bartels, executive vice president of national health information

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Fall Workshop Schedule

Learning Experience	Date	Location
Daily Continuous Improvement for Healthcare	Oct. 14	Appleton, WI - Learn more
Creating a Lean Management System	Oct. 15-16 Nov. 12-13 Dec. 17-18	Appleton, WI - Learn more

Save the Date for the 2015 Summit

Join us in Dallas, Texas, June 3-4, 2015, for the 6th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit co-hosted by the Lean Enterprise Institute.

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