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This public report provides comparative information on how hospitals in SE Michigan perform in following established standards of care.
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Save Lives / Save Dollars (TM)
Driving quality and cost savings.

Save Lives Save Dollars (SLSD) is a multi-year initiative of coordinated, immediate and long-term actions to drive quality improvement (save lives) and derive cost reductions (save dollars) in southeastern Michigan.  Program implementation began October 2005.

 

 

Sponsoring Organizations and Partners:

 

  • AstraZeneca
  • Beaumont Hospitals
  • Blue Care Network of Michigan
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • Botsford Health Care Continuum
  • Chrysler, LLC
  • Detroit Medical Center
  • Detroit Regional Chamber
  • DTE Energy
  • General Motors Corporation
  • Health Alliance Plan
  • Henry Ford Health System
  • Humana  
  • Huron Valley Physician Association
  • International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 547
  • Medical Network One
  • Michigan Health and Hospital Association
  • Michigan State Medical Society
  • Molina Healthcare of Michigan
  • MPRO 
  • Novartis
  • Oakland Southfield Physicians, PC
  • Oakland Medical Society
  • Oakwood Healthcare System
  • Pfizer
  • Priority Health
  • Rite Aid
  • State of Michigan
  • St. John Health
  • Trinity Health
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • United Outstanding Providers, LLC
  • United Physicians, PC
  • University of Michigan Health System
  • Walbridge Aldinger
  • Wayne County Medical Society

 

Goal

 

  • Achieve 100% adherence to selected guidelines
  • Produce savings of $500 million over 3 years, or reduce the rate of increase health care expenditures by 1–3 % in Southeast Michigan

 

Strategy

 

Align all stakeholders in SEM to:  

  • Adopt standard performance metrics and measure performance
  • Accelerate compliance with evidence-based guidelines
  • Pay providers based on performance metrics

 

Significant Year One Milestones and Deliverables: 

 

  • Redesigned organizational structure, staffing, processes
  • lDifferential payment strategy agreement among payers
  • lEvidence-Based Practice Teams
    • ุSupport BMC2 – evidence based approach to PCI patients
    • ุDiabetes Team – Diabetes Cost Calculator distributed
    • ุGeneric Team – pilot project developed, drug classes identified
    • ุInpatient Team – hospital surgical site infections pilot
    • ุOutpatient Team – hyperlipidemia
  • Inpatient public reporting website active
  • lRaised $1.3 million/Year One; Stakeholders committed to $1.4 million/Year Two
  • lRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Aligning Forces for Quality pilot site
  • lPartner with HHS – Designated Community Leader for Value Driven Health Care
     

SLSD Steering Committee and Results Improvement Team Leadership 

  • Bruce Bradley, General Motors, Chair
  • Nancy Schlichting, Henry Ford Health System, Vice-chair

 Results Improvement Team (RITE)

 

  • Jack Billi, University of Michigan
  • Bruce E. Bradley, General Motors
  • Richard Frank, MD, UnitedHealthcare
  • Steve Grant, MD, United Physicians, PC
  • Paul Harkaway, MD, Huron Valley Physicians Association
  • Mark Johnson, Beaumont Hospitals
  • Kate Kohn-Parrott, Chrysler LLC
  • Deb O'Leary, Michigan American Diabetes Association
  • Richard Lueders, DTE Energy
  • Marsha Manning, General Motors
  • Sue Moran, Michigan Department of Community Health  
  • Cassandra Saunders, Chrysler LLC
  • Nancy Schlichting, Henry Ford Health System
  • Philip Schloop, IUOE, Local 547
  • Thomas Simmer, MD, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • Matthew Walsh, Health Alliance Plan
  • Jack Weiner, Trinity Health System
  • Corri Wofford, Michigan American Diabetes Association
 
 
 
 
 
GDAHC Vision for Southeast Michigan
Southeast Michigan (SEM) embodies a community that delivers high quality, cost effective health care that is accessible to all, resulting in improved community health status. We accomplish this by working collaboratively, through GDAHC, to advocate and lead change to improve the way health care is delivered, paid for and used in the seven county region.
 

 
GDAHC Mission Statement
As the region’s leading healthcare coalition of leaders in business, labor, health care, health plans, government and consumers, GDAHC strives for continuous improvement in the quality, cost effectiveness and accessibility of healthcare. We provide the forum for multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnerships to plan, develop and execute solutions for the future.