Speaker Presentation from U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow leadership summit, Nov. 1-3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Find out more about this forum at www.usnewshot.com.

1. CHOP CARE
NETWORK
Community Partnerships
November 3, 2017

2. CHOP Care Network: Ownership or partnership?
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3. CHOP Community Hospital Partnerships
Lancaster
General
Chester County
Einstein Montgomery
Doylestown
AtlanECare
Mainland
AtlanECare City
Virtua
Voorhees
Pennsy
Holy Redeemer
Abington
CHOP
HUP
Grand View
Princeton
St. Mary
Virtua
Memorial

4. Scope of Community Hospital Partnerships
Number Beds Admissions PaEent days
NICU 13
38,000 births
259 5,016 69,000
Inpa8ent/hybrid 9 108 6,793 11,840
Pediatric ED 2 NA 38,100 NA
General ED 7 NA 21,700 NA
PICU 1 6 236 803
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5. CHOP Community Hospital Partnerships
Value to CHOP
• Improve pediatric care in the community
• “Right child, Right care, Right place” – deliver appropriate care close to home
• Streamlined access to higher levels of care at CHOP Main
• Improves bed capacity at CHOP Main
• Creates scale in the marketplace
• Expands brand awareness
• Creates a loyal referral base
• Secondary financial benefits

6. CHOP Community Hospital Partnerships:
Varied Program Structures
• Broad Affilia8on Agreements
• Professional Service Agreements – bi-direc8onal responsibili8es
• Embedded “hospital within a hospital” for pediatric services
• Quaternary Partnerships
• Single-specialty agreements
• Public Sector Partnerships

7. CHOP Community Hospital Partnerships:
A Different Strategy from Main Hospital
• Select partners with similar vision and a workable culture
• Be willing to walk away
• Bring services based on perceived need tempered by formal needs assessment
• Achieve goals through influence and exper8se, not command and control
• Clinical care standards consistent, but not iden/cal, with CHOP Main
• “Best of Breed” concept
• Align payor contracts

8. The Community Bedside: Sustaining Success
• Hire strong, “indoctrinated” medical directors
• Engage and connect clinical staff with the mother ship
• Nurture partnerships through regular leadership interface
• Enhance with proven staffing models, clinician recruitment, leadership and
educa8on, QI program, pa8ent safety, simula8on.
• Augment clinical services
• Increase market share
• Co-locate Outpa8ent Specialty Care Centers
• Supply benchmarked outcomes data
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