SOURCE: The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.

 

NEEDHAM, MA--(Marketwire - September 3, 2008) - Newly available public AHRQ quality measures show a strong relationship between higher hospital quality scores and better hospital cost performance. Using HMC's Lead with Quality™ program, physicians, care-givers, and management can all be engaged to find patterns of poor quality events, and eliminate them.

Lead with Quality

The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.'s (HMC's) Lead with Quality™ program provides hospitals with a proactive approach to manage key AHRQ indicators in order to ensure competitiveness by providing:

--  A view of your cost and quality competitiveness
--  A toolset necessary for understanding, fixing and
    continuously tracking progress
--  A straightforward means to track how you're doing in
    both the quality and cost dimensions
--  A quality-centric approach that your entire
    organization can rally around

Increase Quality to Increase Overall Performance

Quality performance makes a big difference in cost and patient satisfaction performance. HMC's Lead with Quality™ program assesses:

--  The impact of poor quality on costs and the sources
--  The impact poor quality has on length of stay
--  The impact poor quality has on patient satisfaction
--  The most productive ways to focus clinicians and physicians to the
    improve
    

HMC's Lead with Quality™ program avoids conflicts that arise between quality and cost initiatives from traditional cost-centric approaches. Buy-in for these initiatives is strong because all stakeholders have an interest in improving quality. And unlike many programs, results are fast and focus upon public measures that are critical to manage.

Learn more about how HMC's "Lead with Quality" program helps you increase hospital quality and lower hospital costs at http://www.HMC-Benchmarks.com/hospital-benchmark/lead-with-quality.php.