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	News HMC & Hospital Performance Improvement News HMC Study Shows Quality Problems Impact Overhead Costs Too What is "Off-Quality" Costing You? The Healthcare Management Council (HMC) Announces Major Upgrades to its Hospital Benchmarking - HMCCentral.com More News >>
	Featured Clients Our clients are serious about hospital performance improvement. Banner Health Intermountain Healthcare Sentara Healthcare More Featured Clients >>
	Client Perspectives Partners share their experience of working with HMC Martha Jefferson Hospital Appreciation of the veracity and improvements to the HMC QuadrantOne BenchmarkTM. Martha Jefferson Hospital HMC is the right benchmarking company for hospitals. Banner Health Banner Health integrates HMC benchmarking and networking into its corporate culture to achieve high quality and appropriate cost More Client Testimonials >>
	Case Studies Performance improvement case studies with multi-million dollar savings and improvements Martha Jefferson Hospital -- Martha Jefferson Hospital achieves its goal to improve benchmark position while improving quality by tackling four key areas of Laboratory costs. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital -- St. Joseph Mercy Hospital shared with HMC KnoweldgeWeb Partners how redesigning the Surgical Prep Center process improved patient safety in preparing the patient for surgery. North Colorado Medical Center -- North Colorado Medical Center learned practices of other HMC Partners via the HMC KnowledgeWeb, enabling them to increase revenue, decrease errors, and increase support training, by moving staff into auditing roles. More Case Studies >>
	Outstanding Partner Manager Interviews Unique ways Partner Managers have used HMC's tools Mary Washington Hospital Susi Hoshi-Castoro, Director of Physical Medicine and Rehab Services OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Kelli Nichols, Director, Food & Nutrition Services More Interviews >>
	HMC Articles Lothrop, Stephen & Nickerson, Sarah. "Achieving Productivity and Quality: The Trustee’s Role" Trustee Magazine, May, 2006. Read the article at Trustee Magazine Lothrop, Stephen & Nickerson, Sarah. "Controlling Healthcare Costs Through Productivity and Quality" For The Record, April 17, 2006, Vol. 18 No. 8. Read the article at For The Record More Articles >>
	Hospital Performance Improvement Frequently Asked Questions What's the most important step to any performance improvement plan? How can I spend less time collecting data and more time improving performance? More Questions & Answers >>
	Recent HMC eNewsletter Contents Ignore This at Your Peril! - Many of our hospitals have been surprised to find that additional resources are not buying them quality. To effectively respond to increasing focus on quality, HMC benchmarking has brought cost and quality together. Collaboration: Results from World Class Change Models with Duke Rohe Upcoming Conference Calls: 1. Kaizen Sessions with Duke Rohe and 2. Program Coordinator Networking Training New This Month: The Curse of Knowledge Platitudes New HMC Blog: The Return on Knowledge (The ROK) broadly explores the impact on the economies of knowledge from business strategies, technologies, current events, and, well, anything. eNewsletters Home >>
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