{"id":2867,"date":"2015-12-08T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/cleveland-clinic-the-medicine-we-all-need\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T19:06:11","slug":"cleveland-clinic-the-medicine-we-all-need","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/cleveland-clinic-the-medicine-we-all-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Clinic: The Medicine We All Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Clinic has once again ranked as the best in the nation, ranked no. 1 in US News and World Report for the 21st<\/sup> consecutive year[1]<\/a>. The hospital\u2019s strategic vision is to \u201cbe the world\u2019s leader in patient experience, clinical outcomes, research, and education\u201d by focusing on quality, innovation, teamwork, service, integrity, and compassion[2]<\/a>. The hospital is laser-focus on controlling costs and innovating to drive better outcomes in the face of increased chronic diseases, an aging US population, and other systemic forces[3]<\/a>. Despite these challenges, The Cleveland Clinic is effective in achieving its strategy largely through its world-class operations.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Clinic focuses on three pillars of operations to drive its strategy by achieving operational success: people, systems, and processes. First, employees (e.g., Doctors, nurses) are provided with incentives to provide quality-care, constant innovation through research and treatment, and high-value patient-oriented thinking. Doctors are on one-year contracts with annual reviews; there are \u201cno financial incentives to do more or less than what is needed\u201d[4]<\/a>. Thus, Doctors provide the right amount of care, unlike hospital systems where doctors are compensated for each service they provide (i.e. Fee-for-service).<\/p>\n

Second, the hospital system is a leader in sharing data across its entire system via electronic systems and programs around utilizing the technology. The hospital invests heavily into systems that allows for universal data sharing \u2013 every division of the system publishes its patient outcomes and costs of performing a procedure. \u00a0The outcome has been reduced costs through reductions in variability and improved outcomes through data sharing. In one example, \u201canalyzing cost variability of prostatectomies at different hospitals enabled the health system to become more efficient and reduce procedure costs by 25%\u201d3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Finally, The Cleveland Clinic has established processes to drive coordinated patient care and a collaborative, team-oriented approach. Cleveland Clinic was one of the first hospitals to offer care coordination in a structured manner \u2013 the \u201cPatient Service Navigator\u201d[5]<\/a>. These navigators help the patient navigate the healthcare system and collaborate with the healthcare to provide necessary communication between patient and health teams[6]<\/a>. The initiative has led to higher quality for patients as patients receive holistic care, more collaboration across health care team (e.g., doctors, nurses) who then know everything about the patient, and lower costs as fewer diagnoses are missed, problems caught earlier, and costly complications (which drive the bulk of healthcare spend) are prevented.<\/p>\n

Cleveland Clinic aligns each of the people, systems, and process components of its operations to its strategy. Thus, the hospital is able to drive world-class patient experience, consistently outperform clinical outcome benchmarks, drive global healthcare innovation through research, and teach the next generation of the world\u2019s doctors. Cleveland Clinic\u2019s operational effectiveness will allow it to serve as a global healthcare leader for decades to come.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> http:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/us_news_rankings<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/about-cleveland-clinic\/overview\/who-we-are\/mission-vision-values<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> http:\/\/portals.clevelandclinic.org\/Reporting\/ALetterfromDrCosgrove,CEOandPresident\/tabid\/9292\/Default.aspx<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.advisory.com\/daily-briefing\/2012\/12\/10\/cleveland-clinic-ceo-four-ingredients-in-our-secret-sauce<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> http:\/\/healthleadersmedia.com\/content\/LED-251913\/Cleveland-Clinics-New-Health-Center-Will-Feature-Patient-Navigators-to-Coordinate-Care.html<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> http:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/ccf\/media\/files\/Patient-Experience\/OPE-Newsletter-5-26-10.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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