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Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Selects the Premier Healthcare Alliance to Better Serve Patients Through Enhanced Labor Resource Management

Posted on: Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 09:02 CST

Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, the flagship hospital of the Presbyterian Healthcare System, has signed an agreement with the Premier healthcare alliance to use Premier's Performance Partners™ program, a service designed to better serve patients by supplementing an organization's infrastructure for labor management process improvement, redesign and expense reduction.

With an average return-on-investment of 15 to 1, the Performance Partners consulting program is designed for hospitals and health systems that have operational benchmarking and productivity applications in place or are contemplating implementation and desire further assistance in establishing improvement capabilities. As a part of the Performance Partners program, participating health systems receive ongoing, targeted consultation to empower the organization to achieve measurable results.

"Our experience with Premier's Healthcare Informatics services, especially its suite of powerful analytical tools for benchmarking productivity, efficiency and operational effectiveness, served as a springboard for the senior management team to embrace our current engagement with Premier's Performance Partners. We see it as another opportunity to rapidly assimilate national 'best practices' into our stewardship of hospital operations," said Jeffrey Canose, MD, chief operating officer of Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. "We believe the program will help us efficiently manage our most vital and most expensive assets -- our employees -- while we continually improve the lives of the people in the communities we serve through clinical excellence and service excellence."

Presbyterian Dallas is a member of Texas Health Resources (THR), one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit healthcare delivery systems in the United States. THR currently uses Premier's ClinicalAdvisor™ for quality measurement and benchmarking and Premier's OperationsAdvisor™ to address budgeting improvement efforts and link quality to productivity across its hospitals.

"Best practice organizations such as Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas have realized that having only the right information does not create a complete environment for effective labor management; instead, these organizations maintain a balance of tools, resources and education," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager for Premier Healthcare Informatics. "Premier focuses on developing improvement resources, infrastructure and education, and Performance Partners brings balance to the overall process, working with organizations to achieve long-term successes."

About Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas

Established in 1966, PHD is the flagship hospital of Presbyterian Healthcare System, a member of the faith-based, nonprofit Texas Health Resources system. PHD is a recognized clinical program leader, providing technologically advanced care to patients. The 866-bed facility has approximately 4,000 employees and an active medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians. For more information about PHD, visit www.PHSCare.org.

About Texas Health Resources

Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit healthcare delivery systems in the United States and the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served. THR controls 13 affiliated hospitals and a medical research organization, and is a corporate member or partner in seven additional hospitals and surgery centers. THR's family of hospitals includes Harris Methodist Hospitals, Arlington Memorial Hospital and Presbyterian Healthcare System. For more information about Texas Health Resources, visit www.texashealth.org.

About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Serving 1,700 hospitals and almost 45,000 other healthcare sites, Premier Inc. is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates the nation's largest healthcare purchasing network, the most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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