Labor & Delivery

Assuring patient satisfaction can be challenging, particularly when providing care to pregnant women with high-risk pregnancy conditions. As one of the foremost perinatal practices in the country, Minnesota Perinatal Physicians (MPP) acted swiftly to end a significant delay in scheduling ultrasound appointments, and reduced wait times for other visits.
With an aim to improve patient care and experience, the maternal fetal medicine (MFM) specialists at MPP, employees of Allina Health, leveraged Allina’s “Improving Clinical Value” Program—an initiative that has elevated the patient care experience for numerous other patient populations while simultaneously lowering the per capita cost of care for each one.
Results:

$210,000 in increased revenue because of improved access, projected to be $280,000 within 12 months.
20.8 percent relative improvement in no-show rate.
20 percent increase in available ultrasound appointments and an 18.2 percent increase in utilization.

Advancing women’s health is a key part of the nation’s healthcare quality improvement and population health management agenda. Mission Health has embarked on a journey to standardize its best practices and develop a more systematic method for collecting and analyzing data related to perinatal care. With an EDW serving as its analytics platform, and a newly implemented clinical improvement model, Mission is able to monitor performance on several evidence-based practices designed to improve maternal and newborn care. Learn how they have sustained a zero elective delivery rate, and how they have reduced the time they spend manually collecting data and calculating rates.

Studies have shown that elective deliveries before 39 weeks increase the risk of newborn respiratory distress as well as increase the rates of C-sections where there is a higher rate of postpartum anemia and longer lengths of stay for both mothers and babies. Payers are partnering with healthcare organizations to lower elective delivery rates. Learn how this healthcare organization reduced their elective deliveries by 75 percent in just six months and received a six-figure payer partner bonus.

Addressing The Joint Commission (TJC) core measures is a challenge for healthcare organizations. Hospital EMR data issues are well known by quality and patient safety, and clinical quality improvement clinicians. Read how this healthcare organization is using their healthcare enterprise data warehouse and clinical analytics to establish accurate baseline measures and ongoing near real time performance tracking for their TJC perinatal core measures.