WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Date: February 21, 2013
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Here’s the rub about reducing health care costs to improve your hospital’s bottom line: The “old” solutions of cutting back on staff and services are shortsighted at best. The best solutions require delivering better care and getting rid of wasteful practices. Even getting bigger to achieve efficiencies and economies of scale won’t help in the long run; the new world pays for value over volume. And value involves care coordination that follows patients wherever they go, including after they leave your hospital.
How to survive, and thrive, in this brave new world? This WIHI is the second installment of a focus this month on cost reduction strategies that marry the best ideas from quality improvement with sharpened-pencil, financial and business acumen. The discussion focuses on the work of two organizations — Northeast Health and Hackensack University Medical Center — and unpack how they, and some 58 other organizations that were part of IHI’s Impacting Cost + Quality initiative, are on track to save $43 million.
Can your hospital leadership commit to reducing costs at least two percent over the next five years, while maintaining or improving quality? If you can’t make that commitment today, what would get you on the path to making it? WIHI host Madge Kaplan, with the help of IHI’s Kathy Luther and three dynamic hospital leaders and experts — Norm Dascher, Lucy Savitz, and Cathy Abbott — promise you a bold and bottom-line discussion.
The following materials may also be of interest:
WIHI: End-of-Life Care and How Communities Can Become "Conversation Ready"
WIHI: 10 Things Every Hospital Needs to Know to Be Safe
WIHI: The Road to Team-Based Primary Care and Behavioral Health
WIHI: 100 Million Healthier Lives by 2020
WIHI: Optimizing Safety with the Electronic Health Record: The Latest on Glitches and Fixes from the Frontlines
WIHI: Better Care and Better Value for Hip and Knee Replacement
WIHI: Mental Health Care in the Hospital: Preventing Harm, Promoting Safety
WIHI: From Here to CLER: Graduate Medical Education and the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)
WIHI: Tread Water No More! Making Sense of Patient Experience Data
WIHI: Preventing Financial Harm to Patients: The Costs of Care Initiative
WIHI: From Prehospital to In-Hospital: The Continuum for Time-Sensitive Care
WIHI: New Roles, New Routes for Managing Populations
WIHI: Making the Work of QI Less Draining and More Sustaining
WIHI: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Early Results, Tough Scrutiny
WIHI: Partnering with Patients for Safety: The Next Phase of Work and Commitment
WIHI: Transforming Tensions and Tempers on Health Care Teams
WIHI: Reclaiming Empathy — Best Practices for Engaging with Patients
WIHI: Bright Spots for Patients with Complex Needs
WIHI: How High? How Low? Shared Decision Making Amidst Shifting (Hypertension) Guidelines
WIHI: Mobilizing Skilled Nursing Facilities to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations
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