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Goodroe Healthcare Solutions Signs Major New Contracts; Clinical Improvement Firm Helps Hospitals Link Supply Usage to Patient Outcomes to Maximize Quality of Care

Posted on: Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 12:01 CDT

Goodroe Healthcare Solutions, a firm that helps hospitals improve clinical quality and economic performance, today announced that it has signed 13 major new contracts in recent months. The majority of these engagements will include Goodroe installing its proprietary system in hospital operating rooms and cardiac catheterization labs to enable staff members to track every item used during clinical procedures. This provides hospitals with data that will help them: 1) reduce the variation in the supplies used during procedures: 2) examine opportunities to use supplies more efficiently; and 3) relate supply usage to outcomes in order to maximize the quality of care.

"Medical devices and pharmaceuticals represent between 60 percent and 80 percent of the costs associated with major cardiology and orthopedic procedures," said Joane Goodroe, founder of Goodroe Healthcare Solutions. "If we can work with medical teams to ensure that these supplies are used appropriately, based on best-practice standards, we can improve patient care while also reducing costs."

Goodroe has signed new contracts with the following hospitals:

-- BJC HealthCare, St. Louis, Mo.

-- Bozeman Deaconess Hospital, Bozeman, Mont.

-- Christus St. Patrick Hospital, Lake Charles, La.

-- Community Hospitals of Indiana, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.

-- Good Shepherd Medical Center, Longview, Texas

-- Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, Ft. Pierce, Fla.

-- Longmont United Hospital, Longmont, Colo.

-- Mary Washington Hospital, Inc. Fredericksburg, Va.

-- Park Ridge Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.

-- Rush Foundation Hospital, Meridian, Miss.

-- Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, Md.

-- St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, Ltd., Boise, Idaho

-- St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, Pa.

Goodroe Healthcare Solutions is nationally known for helping hospitals improve quality, reduce costs and enhance revenues. To do this, Goodroe's clinical consultants work with hospitals to analyze how they deliver care and identify ways to help them become more efficient, while improving effectiveness. Goodroe focuses on cardiology, orthopedic medicine and neurosurgical procedures, such as insertion of spinal implants. These important specialty services represent a large portion of hospital supply costs, so controlling the costs associated with these procedures can help hospitals improve their financial health and assure that resources are available to fund other patient care activities.

"We're committed to working collaboratively with the physicians in our community to improve care for patients, and we're focused on operating more efficiently as an organization," said Patrick Knaus, vice president of business development at St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne, Pa. "We believe Goodroe has the tools and expertise to help us accomplish both of these objectives simultaneously."

Goodroe's consulting engagements are driven by the data it collects from its hospital clients. Hospitals can work with Goodroe's benchmark data to identify clinical best practices and establish clinical improvement projects. Hospitals can also engage Goodroe consultants to work with their physicians to develop processes for decreasing clinical practice variations and reducing unnecessary supply usage.

About Goodroe Healthcare Solutions, LLC - Goodroe Healthcare Solutions is an Atlanta-based firm that concentrates on helping hospitals reduce costs and improve quality in specialty surgical areas quality. Goodroe's clinical consultants work with hospitals to analyze their care processes and find ways to make hospitals more efficient while improving effectiveness. Goodroe focuses on cardiology, orthopedic medicine and neurosurgical procedures, such as insertion of spinal implants. These important specialty services generate 60 to 80 percent of supply costs for many large hospitals, as well as considerable revenues, so controlling costs associated with these procedures can help hospitals improve their financial health and assure that resources are available to fund other patient care activities.

Source: Business Wire

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