Healthcare improvement company Premier Inc has formed a collaborative effort to reach zero preventable maternal and neonatal harm and deaths with the 10 US hospitals that own the American Excess Insurance Exchange (AEIX) captive insurance company.
The new collaborative effort, Premier’s Perinatal Collaborative, will design, test and adopt evidence-based improvement strategies that can be replicated, standardised and scaled nationally.
The participating hospitals include Baptist Health Lexington, KY; Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA; Franklin Woods Community Hospital, Johnson City, TN.
The 10 hospitals will focus on reducing mortality and disparities in care, limiting adverse events, ensuring patients are treated in the correct and most appropriate setting.
AEIX is a reciprocal risk retention group providing excess, umbrella and reinsurance coverage to its members. AEIX is managed by Premier.
Barclay Berdan, FACHE, CEO of Texas Health Resources and chairperson of the AEIX board of directors, said: “This group’s unique, combined expertise is critical in providing the leading pathway for managing risk and improving perinatal safety,”
He continued: “We are excited to be collaborating with Premier in its mission to improve the health of communities. We will work together to establish a systemwide model of care, including a culture of safety, high reliability and teamwork that supports sustainable improvements.”
Premier specialists will be paired with participants to create a multidisciplinary, data-driven development action to transform perinatal care design.
The collaborative expands on the learnings and achievements gathered from Premier’s years of work with hundreds of hospitals, key industry associations on the development, education and implementation of women and infant safety guidelines.