Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota is one of the nation’s top cardiovascular hospitals. A strong partnership between physicians and hospital administration has enabled the organization to achieve leading clinical outcomes and strong financial performance. Not content to rest on their success, Fairview Southdale engaged Premier, Inc. to assess its cardiology service line performance. An in-depth assessment identified significant opportunities to improve Fairview Southdale’s service line cost structure and patient throughput, and even found physicianspecific implications on clinical practice. Learn how to take your service lines to the next level in physician preference areas, such as cardiology, orthopedics and spine. Improvement in the entire continuum of care is analyzed and measured: scheduling, clinical quality, safety and outcomes, supply expense, implant cost and utilization, labor productivity, length of stay, physician engagement, revenue capture, and more.

      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Identify opportunities for significant improvement in clinical, financial and operational metrics in physician preference service lines, such as cardiology, orthopedics and spine.
• Utilize data, down to nursing unit, physician-specific, and procedural levels to drive performance improvement.
• Develop a plan to improve service line performance in key metrics, such as cost per case, complication rates, and implant cost as a percent of reimbursement.