Access and Coverage for All

Trinity Health is:

• Increasing alignment with providers to ensure access for all
• Working with community health centers to coordinate care and to provide specialty care to uninsured patients
• Participating actively in CMS rule-making processes, offering the perspective of community hospitals
• Providing charity care to uninsured and underserved patients in each of its communities
• Educating employees and the community about the need to transform the health care system

Coordinated Care

Trinity Health is:

• Establishing accountable care networks to better align with physicians and to integrate and coordinate patient care
• Reducing unnecessary emergency room visits, hospitalizations and imaging services through participation in patient-centered medical homes
• Expanding electronic health records to ambulatory settings
• Using telemedicine to coordinate care for the chronically ill, including vulnerable populations

High-Value Care

Trinity Health is:

• Continuing our focus on cost discipline to meet the challenges of reduced payments and lower Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements
• Leveraging health information technology to drive efficiency>
  - Leveraging highly trained specialists through use of robotics for remote management of stroke, cancer and intensive care unit patients
  - Seeing an 8 percent increase in nursing time at patient bedside
  - Accomplishing a 40 percent faster delivery of emergent medications
  - Avoiding about 14,000 potential adverse drug events per year
  - Expecting to be compliant with Meaningful Use by June 30, 2011
• Eliminating clinical variations, improving quality and reducing cost
  - Experiencing a 31 percent reduction in patient falls with injury
  - Reporting a 45 percent reduction in pressure ulcers
  - Celebrating an 80 percent reduction in extended stays due to Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections following elective surgeries
  - Seeing a 29 percent reduction in severity-adjusted mortality
• Reinvesting resources and ensuring the availability of the best health care in our communities
  - $456 million in community benefits, an increase of 41 percent over 3 years