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: Working Toward Health Equity
WIHI: SBAR: Structured Communication and Psychological Safety in Health Care
WIHI: Violence Prevention and Community Health
WIHI: Patients as Partners in QI Research
WIHI: New Leadership Skills for Better Health and Health Care
WIHI: Improving Safety and Satisfaction in Ambulatory Care
WIHI: Who’s Conversation Ready? How Health Care Can Respect End-of-Life Wishes
WIHI: New Staffing Models for Primary Care
WIHI: Recognizing Person- and Family-Centered Care: Always Events at IHI
WIHI: On the (Virtual) Road with Mobile Clinics and Population Health
WIHI: Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health
WIHI: Slowdown in the Growth of US Health Care Spending
WIHI: The Ground Game of the Partnership for Patients
WIHI: Large-Scale Change Across a Country: Learning from Scotland
WIHI: Measure Up, (Blood) Pressure Down: 80% by 2016
WIHI: Reliable Practices for Responding to Natural Disasters: Lessons from Long Island Jewish and Hurricane Sandy
WIHI: Home for Life, Aging, and Aging in Place
WIHI: Engaging Patients in Safety — Live from London and the International Forum on Quality and Safety
WIHI: Community Health Needs Assessments, Part 2: Lessons from North Carolina
WIHI: Community Health Needs Assessments, Part 1
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