New Guide: No Single Factor Creates High-Performing Health Care Systems

A guide published from the American Hospital Association's Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) in Chicago, along with support from the Commonwealth Fund, found it is difficult to pinpoint a specific element tying together high-performing multi-hospital systems.

The researchers studied publicly available data, interviewed 45 leaders of multi-hospital health systems and focused on 17 specific best practices for this report.

The report identified three major findings:

1. No one system type was most associated with high performance, which means academic and non-academic, large or small, regional or multi-regional had an advantage over the others.

2. No one factor was clearly associated with performance. Essentially researchers found consistent high performance resulted in high quality care and no single change would create the same results.

3. Creating a culture of performance excellence, accountability for results and leadership execution are the keys for success. The report found a lot of these factors boiled down to the quality of leadership and the culture they created in the hospitals.

To read the report in it's entirety, click here.

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