Catholic Healthcare Partners
Drives Organizational Success through
Ongoing Practitioner Evaluation
Case Study
At a Glance
Organization
Catholic Healthcare Partners
Cincinnati, Ohio
– 32 hospitals
– Beds: 6,650 licensed
hospital beds
– Employees: 36,455
– Medical staff: 6,488
– Inpatient visits per year: 248,296
– Outpatient visits per year:
5,100,296
– ED visits per year: 1,029,930
Solution Spotlight
– McKesson Performance
AnalyticsTM
Critical Issues
– Inability to identify quality
improvements
– Need to improve processes
and quality
– Need to achieve CMS
reimbursement standards
Results
– Improved access to data,
including dynamic analysis
– Enhanced care quality,
especially in internal medicine
– Expanded use of metrics to
meet six new CMS competencies
– Saved more than $1 million
of transparency and engages
all stakeholders in measuring
and improving care quality.
This need heightened when
The Joint Commission released
new Ongoing Professional Practice
Evaluation standards (MS.4.40)
with the expectation that
hospitals would not only evaluate
practitioners on the new standards
but also provide ongoing feedback.
In addition, CHP wanted to address
the plan by CMS to change
reimbursement standards and
metrics to pay-for-performance —
meaning that practitioners are
reimbursed based on patient
outcomes and results.
“With the new requirements from
The Joint Commission and CMS,
we knew we needed to take a hard
look at how variations in care affect
the number of resources needed
to provide care,” says David Yost,
manager, Performance Analytics,
CHP. “Standardization held the
key to better managing the use
of our resources and ultimately
the quality of care.”
Answers
CHP began to evaluate its options
for meeting these standards. A
few regions considered third-party
software, but the organization
realized that option would create
a siloed vs. systemwide approach
to the challenge.
Hospitals in the Catholic
Healthcare Partners (CHP) system
are among the best in the nation
when it comes t