CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Selects Premier Healthcare Alliance to Better Patient Outcomes, Reduce Costs Through Improved Operations, Staffing and Labor Productivity.Premier's Operations Advisor[TM] Total Labor Management Solution Provides Comparative Benchmarks and Productivity Measurements CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, city, Argentina Santa Rosa, city (1991 pop. 80,629), capital of La Pampa prov., central Argentina. It is a modern city and road junction surrounded by a rich agricultural and cattle-raising area. Health Care (CSRHC), one of the top healthcare organizations in South Texas, has signed an agreement to utilize Premier's OperationsAdvisor[TM] 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 Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe. . "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 pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. 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 (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ). OperationsAdvisor is integrated into the Premier Performance Suite[TM], 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 The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word is a Roman Catholic religious order of women begun in 1866, with a request from the French-born Claude Marie Dubuis, the second Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Galveston, which then included the entire state of , 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 San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. and in the South Texas Medical Center, and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. , an academic teaching facility affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio UTHSCSA is the largest comprehensive health sciences university in South Texas. Located in the South Texas Medical Center, it serves San Antonio and all of the 50,000 square mile (130,000 km²) area of central and south Texas. . Visit www.christussantarosa.org for more information. About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality recipient Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 45,000 other healthcare sites, Premier is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. 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 San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com. |
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