Value Maximization focuses on:
1. Leading clinical quality improvement using measurement, process improvement, evidence based medicine, sharing of best practices, and collaborative learning.
2. Partnering with physicians, advanced practice nursing, quality and performance improvement leadership to achieve optimum clinical outcome for patients and their families.
3. Improving patient and partner value in patient care processes for the treatment of the top fourteen community disease state admissions and one national demonstration project:
Acute Abdominal Aneurysm Rupture
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Cesarean Section Delivery
Heart Failure
Hip Replacement
Ischemic Stroke
Knee Replacement
Laminectomy
Lumbar Fusion
Pediatric Asthma
Pneumonia
Surgical Care Improvement Project
Surgical Hip Fracture
Vaginal Delivery
Vaginal Hysterectomy