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August 12, 2013

Cleveland Clinic, ProMedica of Toledo Form New Partnership


The Toledo-based health system ProMedica, which recently announced its selection of Wellcentive for coordinated care clinical quality and performance-based initiatives, has announced another coordinated care management partnership. It is forming a partnership with the Cleveland Clinic to help develop a system that will better suit both companies and the people in the Ohio area’s needs. The ProMedica group is a large group consisting of 11 hospitals and 310 other health units.

This new alliance will see both groups working together in order to provide low-cost healthcare. A key factor in the new coupling will be the Clinic’s Quality Alliance. This will allow medical care personnel access to clinical data, details for patient care under specified conditions, and a vast information system to help healthcare providers follow the patients’ progress and make comparisons to their specific cases against the similar cases of patients within the system. In time, the two groups plan to be able to share not only information, but services and supply efficiencies.

Cleveland Clinic’s president and chief executive officer, Dr. Toby M. Cosgrove, had this to say: “In this transformational time in healthcare, a new level of collaboration is required and health systems are integrating in unique ways. This affiliation will allow Cleveland Clinic and ProMedica to work together to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive quality and value to patients.”

This new affiliation will launch a joint committee that will be co-chaired equally by ProMedica and the Cleveland Clinic representatives. This committee will be in charge of the new joint venture. This should prove to be a smooth operation as the two groups have previously worked together on a previous project aimed at the commercialization of medical technologies.

Stephen H. Staelin, chairman of the ProMedica board of trustees, noted, “Increasingly, healthcare organizations from across larger geographic regions will network to improve care in local communities as well as for broader populations.” He went on to explain that there are new expectations: “What's being expected are new, sophisticated capabilities to deliver value-based care. We can build these capabilities together, along with economies of scale and skill.”




Edited by Alisen Downey
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