IMPERATIVES FOR QUALITY

Providing an alliance of university hospitals with business management assistance and statistical resources to assist members of the alliance with quantitative tools for coordinating care and patient capacity and flow, improving the quality of academic medical center patient experiences, improving academic medical center patient survival rates and reducing the risk of patient mortality, management of employment costs and improvement of medical and supply utilization practices, prevention of harm to patients, and reducing variations in the providing of medical care; aggregating, analyzing and providing comparative business data, benchmarking, and best practice information to healthcare related groups and their business partners to identify operational and performance improvement and trends; providing a national online business networking web site for program coordinators at academic medical centers; providing customized quarterly reports to display key measures of business benchmarking effectiveness for academic medical centers

Educational services, namely, online workshops and conferences in the fields of coordinating care and patient capacity and flow, improving the quality of academic medical center patient experiences, improving academic medical center patient survival rates and reducing the risk of patient mortality, management of employment costs and improvement of medical and supply utilization practices, prevention of harm to patients, and reducing variations in the providing of medical care