Salem Hospital Partners With Premier To Enable Top Clinical Performance
Charlotte, NC - Salem Hospital Regional Health Services, an organization in Salem, OR, has signed an agreement with the Premier Inc. healthcare alliance to use Premier's Clinical Advisor for quality measurement, benchmarking and regulatory reporting.
Salem Hospital selected Clinical Advisor to further enhance its ongoing commitment to provide the very best care for its patients while safely reducing associated costs.
"The ability to risk-adjust outcomes data and to benchmark performance against peer hospitals were strong motivators in our selection of Clinical Advisor," said Daniel Grigg, performance improvement director at Salem. "We are committed to achieving clinical quality second to none and view Clinical Advisor as an important tool to reach that goal."
Clinical Advisor offers benchmarking, analysis, consulting, knowledge-sharing and other customized services to help hospitals and health systems close performance gaps identified through use of comparative data on patient outcomes, cost and clinical resource utilization.
With Clinical Advisor, hospitals can:
- Prioritize quality improvement efforts and set measurable goals;
- Improve financial performance through service line analysis;
- Achieve regulatory compliance with a single solution for submitting quality measures;
- Formalize physician feedback with presentation-ready reports;
- Identify misuse by analyzing utilization of resources, down to the transaction level; and
- Employ nationally-recognized 3M APR-DRG severity and risk adjustment methodologies.
"Salem Hospital Regional Health Services brings a wealth of knowledge about delivering high quality that will benefit all participants in the Clinical Advisor program," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager for Premier Healthcare Informatics. "Salem Hospital is widely recognized as a provider of high quality care, and we look forward to helping them achieve their clinical quality improvement goals so they can better serve their patients."
Clinical Advisor is part of the Premier Advisor Suite, believed to be the healthcare industry's leading integrated benchmarking, reporting and surveillance solution for improving quality, safety, labor productivity, and operational and supply costs. Clinical Advisor and the Advisor Suite are powered by Perspective, an integrated clinical, financial and operational comparative database, providing patient-level detail to identify opportunities for improvement in clinical quality and efficiency.
For more information, you can visit www.salemhospital.org
SOURCE: Salem Hospital Regional Health Services