Bundle of Joy
™
campaign to
raise the bar on the quality, safety and cost of care for mothers and
babies; mobilizes Premier’s alliance of 4,000+ hospitals and health
systems, 100B data points, vast array of industry partnerships and
history of proven best practices
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC), a leading healthcare improvement company,
has launched the Bundle
of Joy™ campaign to raise the bar on the quality,
safety and cost of care for mothers and babies across the U.S. Premier
aims to build and deploy new care delivery models using evidence-based
guidelines and best practices from around the nation, ultimately scaling
proven advancements across the industry.
“Every new mother and child deserves the best beginning possible, at the
most affordable price point,” said Susan DeVore, President and CEO of
Premier. “Our goal for the Bundle of Joy campaign is to ensure
mothers and babies are always at the center of care and supported by the
latest evidence, the best doctors and the most successful practices.
We’re building on our years of work as well as our expertise in
syndicating innovative ideas and data from our powerful footprint of
health system, industry and clinician partners to measure, monitor and
scale industry advancements.”
Maternal health is a national priority. Mothers are at higher risk of
dying during childbirth in the U.S. than in any other industrialized
nation. America is also the only developed nation with an increasing
maternal mortality rate. However, more than 60
percent of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable. The Bundle
of Joy campaign is a multi-year effort to collaboratively assess,
build, implement and broadly share the tools and best practices that are
needed to ensure every birth is a safe, healthy and joyful journey for
mothers and their babies.
The Bundle of Joy campaign ignites efforts to improve maternal
and infant health by:
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Evaluating the current state and pinpointing specific improvement
opportunities using Premier’s robust database, which houses
information on more than 45 percent of all U.S. hospital discharges,
100 billion data points and 1.2 million annual births.
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Connecting providers through data-driven, collaborative, performance
improvement work that aligns frontline clinicians to best practices
and evidence-based reliability guidelines.
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Engaging brilliant industry minds to find the solutions that work and
scale them across Premier’s national alliance of more than 4,000
hospitals and health systems.
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Researching specific therapeutic interventions and tools and assessing
their clinical efficacy over time.
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Linking clinical quality and performance from primary care to hospital
to post-acute care.
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Designing and implementing a 12-month optimal care model that includes
pregnancy, labor and delivery, and post-partum care.
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Transparently sharing the progress being made across the nation and
the best practices achieving those results.
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Collaborating with employers and insurers to contract with
high-performing providers and improve the overall care provided to
employees and their children.
Premier has been working with health systems and industry associations
to improve the quality and cost of maternal care for decades. The
Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative, which ran from 2008-2013, tested
new care processes in 14 hospitals to improve the quality and safety of
perinatal care. Participants implemented and measured best practices in
the form of three clinical bundles, leading to more reliable clinical
quality and better patient outcomes in labor and delivery. These
hospitals reduced total adverse events impacting mothers and neonates by
14.4 percent, outperforming a set of comparison hospitals. They also
lowered birth trauma incidents by 15.7 percent, maternal and neonatal
deaths by 20 percent, and maternal harm by 20 percent. The Bundle of
Joy campaign will further expand this work as well as other Premier
best practices.
“Because of our longstanding collaboration with healthcare providers,
Premier is uniquely positioned to collectively improve performance in
the most efficient way – from the inside,” DeVore said. “Only healthcare
providers can truly innovate the care delivery process. This effort is
bringing scale to innovation and moving the outcomes for our nation
forward in a more meaningful way.”
Premier has the only analytics dashboard of its kind in the country that
supports national efforts in harm reduction for perinatal and neonatal
populations. The perinatal dashboard leverages clinical data from the
PremierConnect® performance improvement database to target
key metrics that support the identification of quality improvement
efforts as well as reporting to federal and state agencies. It is
population-specific with peer groups arranged by birth volume and
includes Premier’s proven risk-adjusted performance improvement
methodologies.
Additionally, Premier will continue to work with dedicated leaders in
maternal health, including the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s
Health Care, the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Association
of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
Premier is currently building a Bundle of Joy Strategic Advisory
Committee and welcomes industry organizations to inquire about
participation on the committee or as part of the campaign. For more
information visit www.premierinc.com/bundleofjoy.
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the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements
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“Forward Looking Statements,” “Risk Factors” and “Management’s
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SEC and available on Premier’s website at investors.premierinc.com.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made.
Premier undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise that occur after that date.
About Premier Inc.
Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading healthcare improvement company,
uniting an alliance of more than 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems
and approximately 165,000 other providers and organizations to transform
healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply
chain solutions, and consulting and other services, Premier enables
better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role
in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members
to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way
care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte,
N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare.
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