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 Risk Retention Group 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

SHO Hospitals Come Together for Sterilization Equipment Purchase

New FDA regulations for sterilization equipment presented an opportunity for SHO hospitals to save money through a group purchase. They also accomplished this task in six months instead of the eighteen months allowed by the FDA. Through SHO’s Group Purchasing Program Henry County Hospital, Riverview Hospital, Westview Medical Campus, and Witham Health Services came together to purchase Sterrad NX units, saving just over $30,000 total.

Hospital Leaders Come Together at the SHO Affinity Group Forum

On Wednesday, June 9th, representatives from the SHO Affinity Groups gathered at the Westview Healthplex for SHO’s Affinity Group Forum. Julie Carmichael, SHO President and CEO, reviewed the 2010 Strategic Plan and presented the 2009 SHO Value Report. Dr. J. Marc Overhage, President & CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE), gave a presentation on Meaningful Use, Health Reform, and an update on IHIE’s Beacon Community Grant.