The Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Harvard Business School have created a new initiative that will focus on lowering costs and improving health outcomes associated with knee and hip replacements.
IHI's Joint Replacement Learning Community will measure costs, analyze data and set targets to improve their joint replacement departments. According to government data, knee and hip replacements are among the most common procedures for Medicare beneficiaries.
IHI, co-founded by former CMS Acting Administrator Don Berwick, MD, enlisted 32 organizations to take part in the JRLC. Those organizations include U.S. hospitals, health systems, an accountable care organization and three international hospitals.
• Adventist Medical Center (Portland, Ore.)
• Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.)
• Central DuPage Hospital of Cadence Health (Winfield, Ill.)
• Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute (Hartford)
• Danbury (Conn.) Hospital
• Delnor Hospital of Cadence Health (Geneva, Ill.)
• EvergreenHealth (Kirkland, Wash.)
• Franciscan St. Francis Health Mooresville (Ind.)
• Gundersen Health System (La Crosse, Wis.)
• Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center
• Henry Ford West Bloomfield (Mich.) Hospital
• Hoag Orthopedic Institute (Irvine, Calif.)
• Hospital Alvorada (São Paulo, Brazil)
• Hvidovre Hospital (Hvidovre, Denmark)
• Jewish General Hospital (Montreal, Canada)
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Baltimore)
• Kadlec Regional Medical Center (Richland, Wash.)
• Montefiore Medical Center (Bronx, N.Y.)
• Moses Taylor Hospital (Scranton, Pa.)
• Northside Hospital-Forsyth (Cumming, Ga.)
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
• Orlando (Fla.) Regional Medical Center
• Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative (Columbia, S.C.)
• Providence Alaska Medical Center (Anchorage)
• Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center (Spokane, Wash.)
• Regional Hospital of Scranton (Pa.)
• Sierra Medical Center (El Paso, Texas)
• Straub Clinic & Hospital (Honolulu)
• UMass Memorial Medical Center (Worcester, Mass.)
• University of California San Francisco
• UPMC (Pittsburgh)
• Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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