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CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Selects Premier Healthcare Alliance to Better Patient Outcomes, Reduce Costs Through Improved Operations, Staffing and Labor Productivity

Posted on: Friday, 13 April 2007, 12:00 CDT

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care (CSRHC), one of the top healthcare organizations in South Texas, has signed an agreement to utilize Premier's OperationsAdvisor™ quarterly benchmarking application.

"CHRISTUS Santa Rosa is excited to partner with Premier and utilize Premier's OperationsAdvisor," said Bill Pack, chief financial officer for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care. "Premier's expertise and experience in the areas of providing powerful analytical tools for benchmarking productivity and operational effectiveness will continue to carry CHRISTUS Santa Rosa on our journey to excellence. We believe the program will help us efficiently manage our associates."

Premier's OperationsAdvisor is a total labor management solution that offers productivity monitoring, assessment and comparative data. OperationsAdvisor allows hospitals to compare operational performance against peers and national benchmarks, identify attainable performance improvement opportunities, and achieve a rapid return on investment. OperationsAdvisor is the only comparative data tool that comprehensively integrates a productivity measurement system with quarterly benchmarking.

"OperationsAdvisor is allowing healthcare professionals to tie improvement efforts with the budgeting process," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager for Premier Healthcare Informatics. "We're pleased that CHRISTUS Santa Rosa selected Premier, and we look forward to helping them meet their ongoing performance improvement goals."

With OperationsAdvisor, hospitals and health systems can:

Tie labor productivity to cost;

Link quality indicators to productivity;

Create and manage accurate budgets;

Prioritize improvement projects;

Forecast impact of new services;

Identify and quantify savings opportunities;

Conduct operational and workforce reviews;

Enhance revenue;

Follow comprehensive implementation process with focus on quick return on investment (ROI).

OperationsAdvisor is integrated into the Premier Performance Suite™, which includes benchmarking, reporting analysis and real-time surveillance of clinical, safety, financial, operational, labor productivity and supply data.

About Adventist CHRISTUS Santa Rosa

Founded in 1869 by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa is a Catholic faith-based, non-for-profit health and wellness ministry dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care and services available. One of the top healthcare organizations in South Texas, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa has two adult hospitals located in downtown San Antonio and in the South Texas Medical Center, and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, an academic teaching facility affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Visit www.christussantarosa.org for more information.

About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 45,000 other healthcare sites, Premier 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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