 | HMC Study Shows Quality Problems Impact Overhead Costs Too
December 4, 2007
A recent study has documented a multiplier effect on overhead costs resulting from poor hospital inpatient care. The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. (HMC), a non-traditional benchmarking firm that fosters collaboration in hospital performance management, recently completed a study of the relationship between hospital quality and hospital overhead expenses. |
| What is "Off-Quality" Costing You?
December 3, 2007
HMC's Quadrant1 Benchmark helps you see the cost of your quality problems. |
| The Healthcare Management Council (HMC) Announces Major Upgrades to its Hospital Benchmarking - HMCCentral.com
June 12, 2007
The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. (HMC) has released a major upgrade to its hospital performance improvement Web application. HMCCentral.com is the online home for HMC Partner hospital staff to compare costs to other hospitals, create ideas for quality and cost performance improvement, and provide a clear pathway for implementation. |
| HMC Partners Discuss How Intelligent Use of Hospital Outsourcing Improves Hospital Performance
March 19, 2007
HMC Partners met in an iConference to discuss when outsourcing at hospitals saves money and loses money, and whether monetary savings are the only consideration for outsourcing. |
| Hospitals Prepare for Proposed Medicare Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Reimbursement Plan With The Healthcare Management Council's Quality Dashboard
March 7, 2007
The Healthcare Management Council, Inc (HMC) prepares hospitals for the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) reimbursement plan with the HMC Quality DashboardTM. |
| New HMC Tools Help Hospitals Compete on "Value" – the Nexus of Cost and Quality
February 21, 2007
HMC now benchmarks hospital competitiveness based on the value of care delivered. Our tools incorporate AHRQ quality and safety indicators to functions, DRGs and APRDRGs to rank hospitals on our Quality BenchmarkTM. |
| HMC Partners Achieve 2007 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Primary Stroke Center Certification
February 20, 2007
Each year the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) evaluates stroke care provided by hospitals, and certifies them based on compliance, use of recommendations, and performance. This year five HMC Partners achieved certification. |
| HMC Partners Share Strategies to Increase Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction
February 5, 2007
HMC Partners met in an HMC iConferenceTM to share their strategies for increasing patient satifsfaction in the Emergency Department. |
| HMC Launches the Value Dashboard™ for Cost of Quality Benchmarking
January 23, 2007
The HMC Value Dashboard™ plots the relationship between a hospital’s quality ranking and cost with comparison hospitals of similar size and scope of services. The resulting performance improvement cost of quality benchmark defines the competitiveness of a hospital based on the value of care delivered. |
| HMC Partner Banner Desert Medical Center Solves Medical Technologists Shortage With $1.2M Automation Line
October 16, 2006
New automation line saves over 800 manual steps to deal with over 1,000 specimens each day. |
| Hospital Quality Indicators - Why They Matter for Hospital Public Relations and Medicare Reimbursement
September 27, 2006
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| Teamwork Yields Lower Length of Stay (LOS) for Vent Patients and Improves Utilization
September 21, 2006
Exempla St. Joseph's Medical Center's efforts over the last four years have resulted in low cost/case and length of stay (LOS) for ventilator patients. |
| HMC Partner OSF St. Joseph Medical Center Drastically Reduces Cases of Harm to Patients With New Hand-Off Model
August 19, 2006
Evidence suggests that communication breakdowns during patient hand-offs are the single largest source of medical error, so JCAHO is requiring hospitals to establish standards for hand-off communications. St. Joseph uses the SBAR checklist successfully to improve physician and nurse communications. |
| The HMC Quality Dashboard Alerts Hospitals to Quality Problems Before They Become Public or Reduce Medicare Reimbursement
August 8, 2006
The Healthcare Management Council's online Quality DashboardTM alerts hospital staff to AHRQ quality problems before they are publicized by consumer healthcare Web sites or negatively impact Medicare reimbursement. |
| HMC Readies Hospitals for Medicare Reimbursement Changes With Service Line Analysis
August 1, 2006
The Bush administration's proposed Medicare reimbursement changes will affect the profitability of certain hospital service lines, and the HMC Clinical Analyzer helps hospitals see the impact of those changes on overall hospital profitability. |
| Companies Struggle to Pass Knowledge: HMC Helps Hospitals Do it Seamlessly
May 11, 2006
From the Wall Street Journal: "We're all 'knowledge workers' now. But few organizations have figured out how to share knowledge among employees, or to pass it on when employees leave or change assignments." HMC's tools allow its Partners to collect and share hospital performance improvement knowlege. |
| HMC Partner Hospitals Achieve Magnet Status
May 10, 2006
Of 4,200 hospitals in the country, there are only 180 hospitals that have been awarded magnet status. HMC is proud to call eleven of these 180 benchmark Partners. |
| Achieving Productivity and Quality: The Trustee’s Role
May 5, 2006
HMC's Steve Lothrop and Sarah Nickerson discuss in Trustee Magazine how hospital trustees may play a leadership role in improving productivity and quality outcomes, which are increasingly important as health care insurance premiums are increasing at an alarming rate, hospital productivity is decreasing, and Medicare reimbursement is now based on quality outcomes. |
| Controlling Healthcare Costs Through Productivity and Quality
April 17, 2006
HMC's Steve Lothrop and Sarah Nickerson discuss, in For The Record, "Is it possible to reduce expenses and improve the quality of care? Acute care hospitals need to address both if they expect to succeed in today’s environment." |
| HMC Launches the HMC Quality Dashboard
April 3, 2006
The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. (www.HMC-Benchmarks.com) announces the launch of the HMC Quality Dashboard™ hospital quality electronic dashboard, letting hospitals know their quality problems before they become public. |
| HMC Launches Digital Dashboards
November 1, 2005
HMC Digital Dashboards is a tool designed to simplify the consolidation and display of hospital performance improvement results, simply and flexibly pulling information from any hospital person or IT system. |
| HMC Partner's Chief Nursing Officer Cuts Costs by $1.2 MM
October 26, 2005
Paula Carynski, chief nursing officer at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center, reduced nursing temp costs by $1.87 MM by analyzing employee overtime, sick days and leave, and admissions trends. |
| Welcome New Partner - Banner Health
April 1, 2005
Based in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, not-for-profit health care systems in the country, and joins the HMC Partnership for all of its facilities. |
| HMC IdeaTrees make finding cost-cutting strategies easy
February 1, 2005
The new HMC IdeaTreesTM help your managers to quickly find and generate cost-cutting ideas from other HMC Partners and the HMC KnowledgeWebTM. |
| HMC Partners Again Make Verispan's Top 100 Integrated Healthcare List
February 5, 2004
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| Best practices: Anchors or sails?
October 15, 2003
When "Best Practices" leave hospitals dead in the water: HMC's Shelley Burns discusses performance improvement alternatives in COR Healthcare Market Strategist |
| Turning data problems into performance improvement
April 1, 2003
HMC's Director of Knowledge Management, Shelley Burns, shows how Knowledge Management can turn massive data chaos into real care and cost improvements. |
| Chip Caldwell & HMC: Six Sigma Quantum Improvers Articles
January 8, 2003
Chip Caldwell reports, in HealthLeaders magazine, on the characteristics of hospitals that improve their performance. |
