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Banner Health expands Premier healthcare alliance relationship to include Web-based labor benchmarking solution
All 22 Banner hospitals will use OperationsAdvisor, part of Premier's LaborConnect program, to better manage labor costs, improve quality
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (February 2, 2010) – Banner Health is expanding its relationship with the Premier healthcare alliance to include Premier's OperationsAdvisor® (OA) Web-based labor benchmarking solution. All 22 hospitals in the Phoenix-based healthcare system will utilize OA, part of Premier's LaborConnect™ program, to better manage labor costs while improving quality and safety.
Banner has benefited from using the OA SupplyFocus® module over the last six years and has made the decision to add the labor benchmarking component to their performance improvement road map.
"We were looking for a solution to help us better manage our hospital labor performance as well as our corporate overhead areas," said Dennis Dahlen, Banner Health's chief financial officer. "Premier's OperationsAdvisor, used in concert with their other tools to monitor infection control and quality, provides us the ability to compare against our peers and national benchmarks to ensure that we're targeting best practices in terms of both efficiency and quality."
Continued Dahlen, "Premier also convinced us that their peer group provides a rich database for benchmarking the growing list of centralized 'overhead' functions such as IT, revenue cycle, human resources, etc. We know Premier well from our decade of ownership and are confident that this solution will help us reduce our labor costs while allowing our clinical staff to more effectively serve our patients."
The not-for-profit healthcare system has been an owner of the Premier Purchasing Partners group purchasing network since 2000 and recently confirmed ownership in Premier. Banner Health also uses Premier performance and cost improvement solutions such as SafetySurveillor® to help prevent healthcare-associated infections, QualityManager™ to enhance efficiency and quality care measures, and SupplyFocus to benchmark supply costs. The healthcare system serves Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.
Said Premier Senior Vice President of Healthcare Informatics Keith J. Figlioli, "To achieve operational success, organizations need to strategically identify key areas of performance improvement, prioritize resulting projects, create effective standards and validate budget decisions. Benchmarking data is key as it allows hospitals to create effective labor standards, validate budget decisions and prioritize process improvement projects."
With more than 500 subscribing facilities using OA, hospitals compare performance to benchmarks and peer facility performance, as well as understand and adopt best practices used by peer hospital organizations.
Banner Health hospitals have access to the Premier Performance Improvement Portal™, a library of industry best practices, as well as a networking community for knowledge sharing and interaction with industry specialists, hospital and health system peers and Premier's knowledge experts.
Premier's LaborConnect program is a comprehensive, integrated product and service offering that combines productivity, benchmarking, management engineering and executive consulting. The program is aimed at addressing the pressing labor challenges facing hospitals and healthcare organizations today.
About Banner Health
Based in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, not-for-profit healthcare
systems in the country. Banner Health has 22 facilities that offer an array of
services including hospital care, home care, hospice care, nursing registries,
surgery centers, laboratories and rehabilitation services. These facilities are
located in seven states – Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska,
Nevada and Wyoming. In addition to emergency and medical services, Banner Health
medical centers house a variety of specialized services, including heart care,
cancer treatment, delivery of high-order multiple births, organ transplants,
bone marrow transplants, rehabilitation services and behavioral health services.
For more information, visit
www.BannerHealth.com.
About the Premier healthcare alliance, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals
and 80,000-plus other healthcare sites using the power of collaboration to lead
the transformation to high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by hospitals,
health systems and other providers, Premier maintains the nation's most
comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and
operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping
deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier has worked with the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National
Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in
Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in
Washington.
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