Gingrich Applauds Efforts to Improve Healthcare Provider Performance; Thomas Group is Leading the Delivery of Quality Healthcare Improvement AND Cost Savings in Southeast Michigan.DALLAS -- Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently applauded SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS, a program initiated by the Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC GDAHC Greater Detroit Area Health Council ) to significantly improve provider performance in selected southeast Michigan Southeast Michigan, also called Southeastern Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries, and is home to slightly over half the state's population. clinical areas. GDAHC hired Thomas Group Inc. (NasdaqCM:TGIS TGIS Thank God It's Sabado (Philippine TV series in the 1990s) TGIS Temporal Geographical Information Systems TGIS Thank God It's Saturday TGIS Thank God I'm Single ) for their SAVE LIVES, SAVE DOLLARS campaign. Thomas Group has been appointed to drive improvements in quality and to achieve cost savings by implementing specific quality initiatives and compliance with evidence-based guidelines, supported by differential provider payments and public reporting in southeast Michigan. The movement's goal is to improve healthcare while reducing spending in southeast Michigan by at least $500 million, or reduce by one to three percent the rate of increase in total health care expenditure, during the three year campaign. "You are as close as any region of the country at beginning to be the health system of the future," Gingrich said in his keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. at the GDAHC annual Health Trends Conference in Dearborn, Michigan. "It's an exciting time to be involved with SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS," said Eric Labe, senior vice president, Thomas Group. "GDAHC is pioneering a movement the rest of the nation may eventually follow and adopt for quality healthcare and savings." SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS is collaboratively driven by the major employers, providers and insurers within Southeast Michigan among them General Motors, Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler, Blue Cross, HAP HAP. An old word which signifies to catch; as, "to hap the rent," to hap the deed poll." Techn. Dict. h.t. , Care Choices, Henry Ford Health System, University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , UAW (spelling) UAW - Misspelling of "IAW"? , Comerica Bank, Detroit Medical Center The Detroit Medical Center is a Detroit-based non-profit corporation that owns and operates nine general and specialty hospitals in southeast Michigan. Detroit Medical Center hospitals include: About Thomas Group Thomas Group, Inc. is an international, publicly traded business consulting firm (NasdaqCM:TGIS). Thomas Group's unique brand of process improvement and performance management services enable businesses to enhance operations, improve productivity and quality, reduce costs, generate cash and drive higher profitability. Known as The Results Company(SM), Thomas Group creates and implements customized improvement strategies for sustained performance improvements in all facets of the business enterprise. Thomas Group has offices in Dallas, Detroit and Hong Kong. For additional information on Thomas Group, Inc., please go to www.thomasgroup.com. |
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