Shared Services Develops Programs Best Offered Through Joint Collaboration

Our Shared Service strategy provides an organized approach to identifying services that can positively impact SHO hospitals by improving quality, increasing profitability, reducing expenses and/or improving operations.

This process includes researching and identifying Shared Service opportunities and outlining other relationships and/or competitors that may impact decisions.

Physician Recruitment and the Captive Insurance Company are two examples of how Shared Services initiatives are benefiting SHO hospitals.

The benefit in providing a systematic process and oversight by the Shared Service Steering Committee includes:

Portfolio of Shared Service ideas
Criteria developed to meet consistent benchmarks
Formal scoring of Shared Service ideas
Ability for joint purchasing
Collaboration to address healthcare challenges
Avoid duplication efforts by filtering ideas through a central location
Affinity groups to identify Shared Service initiatives that will strengthen hospital viability

Affinity Group Forum Brings Hospital Leaders Together

SHO hosted the first Affinity Group Forum on June 3rd. The purpose of this forum was to bring all Affinity Groups together for networking, collaboration, and to gain a better understanding of SHO. Affinity Groups include members from SHO hospitals and SHO staff. These groups meet on a regular basis to share best practices, evaluate new services, and improve quality.