SIH established criteria against which to evaluate potential relationships, including: (a) enhancing medical services in Southern Illinois; (b) improving quality and reducing the costs of such services; (c) retaining local ownership of assets and (d) maintaining local governance control.
Through the BJC Collaborative, SIH will be able to participate in the following initiatives:
- Population Health Management – population health information and assessment, physician recruitment and engagement strategies, including Accountable Care Organizations and medical home development.
- Clinical and Service Quality – performance improvement, staff development and training, including eLearning, management and leadership development, clinical skills training, clinical decision support, safety event reporting and emergency preparedness.
- Capital Asset Management – supply chain relationships, facilities design, clinical engineering, technology evaluation, energy conservation and facilities management.
- Financial Services – capital resource evaluation analysis, treasury options, revenue cycle, business intelligence and actuarial expertise.
- Information Systems and Technology – meaningful use of health IT, data center management, data warehousing, software applications, hardware configurations and emerging technologies, data security and patient confidentiality.
SIH’s participation in the BJC Collaborative does not involve a change in ownership of SIH’s assets or governance. SIH remains intact with opportunities to reduce costs and improve care quality as well as clinical and service performance.
The BJC Collaborative also enables SIH to connect to the St. Louis, MO health care market, where many of its patients are referred for tertiary and quaternary medical care, and specifically to work more closely with BJC HealthCare. BJC HealthCare includes Barnes-Jewish Hospital, an academic medical center affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine.