Benefits will
include shorter lengths of stay, improved quality, and lower cost
of care
Atlanta, GA April 12, 2012
- Care Logistics® today announced its collaboration
with Catholic Health East to implement the Care
Logistics®, Hospital Operating SystemTM
Solution, which will transform the health system's operations and
care delivery through greater efficiency. This comprehensive
approach combines an organizational commitment to efficiency,
systemwide process reengineering and enterprise logistics software
to help hospitals achieve reliable and predictive operational
performance in the areas of throughput, quality and patient
experience.
"This partnership supports our long-standing
commitment to serving our community with the highest quality care,
while managing the costs and the operational efforts required to
deliver that care," said Pete DeAngelis, executive vice president
and chief operating officer of Catholic Health East. "Care
Logistics® offers a unique approach to total hospital
efficiency, which meets the needs of our patients and helps us
prepare for the challenges of an operating environment with
decreased reimbursements from federal, state, and private
payors."
Hospitals who utilize the Care Logistics® Care
Coordination Model are better able to integrate all the clinical
and non-clinical patient movements and order executions occurring
in a hospital environment to achieve optimal patient flow and
length of stay while enhancing overall patient satisfaction and
quality.
"We are very proud to be partnering with Catholic
Health East," noted Karl Straub, president of Care
Logistics®. "By focusing on the logistics of patient
care, we have proven it is possible for hospitals to achieve
dramatic success in lowering the cost of care, while simultaneously
improving quality."
Among the results hospitals have achieved by
working with Care Logistics® are: a 49 percent
decrease in hospital-acquired infection rates, a 25 percent
decrease in patient average length of stay, and increases in net
operating margins.
"Our agreement with Catholic Health East is
further validation that our approach is unique in its ability to
help our customers achieve sustainable, dramatic results, through
reliable and predictive operational performance," concluded
Straub.
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About Catholic Health East
Catholic Health East (CHE) is a
multi-institutional Catholic health system, co-sponsored by eight
religious congregations and Hope Ministries, a Public Juridic
Person within Catholic Health East. Based in Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania, the System provides the means to ensure the
continuation of the Catholic identity and operational strength of
the sponsors' health ministries, which are located in 11 eastern
states from Maine to Florida. The System includes 35 acute care
hospitals, four long-term acute care hospitals, 26 freestanding and
hospital-based long-term care facilities, 12 assisted-living
facilities, four continuing care retirement communities, eight
behavioral health and rehabilitation facilities, 31 home
health/hospice agencies and numerous ambulatory and community-based
health services. Catholic Health East facilities employ more than
60,000 full-time employees as partners in ministry. Catholic Health
East is the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care
services-ranked by number of visits-in the nation, as well as the
nation's leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care
for the Elderly) based on the number of programs.
About Care
Logistics®
In support of our customers' operational
goals..., we provide a leadership mindset curriculum, process
reengineering and enterprise logistics software, to help our
hospitals achieve reliable and predictable operational performance
in the areas of throughput, quality, & experience. Care
Logistics® is a subsidiary of Jackson Healthcare, a
group of companies focused on providing the healthcare industry
with innovative physician and clinical resources and IT solutions.
For more information, contact Care Logistics® at (800)
930-0870.
Learn more about the dramatic results Care
Logistics® customers are achieving go to:
www.carelogistics.com/outcomes