Lean and Healthcare Expenses

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Lean and Healthcare Expenses

• Presentation to the Fox Cities Chamber of
  Commerce
• September 10, 2008

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Affinity at a Glance

• 4,100 employees
• 3 Hospitals
• St. Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton
• Mercy Medical Center, Oshkosh
• Calumet Medical Center, Chilton
• 220 Provider Affinity Medical Group serving 23
  clinic sites
• 84,000 member Network Health Plan
• Nationally ranked System, Health Plan, and
  Hospitals

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Affinity and Lean

• AHS approach to Lean is modeled after Toyota
  Motor Company.
• Toyotas success is derived from balancing the
  role of people in an organizational culture that
  expects and values their continuous improvements,
  with a technical system focused on high valued
  added flow.
• Over the past two years we partnered with the
  Milwaukee School of Engineering to train 240
  managers and supervisors in Lean.
• The first step in improving any process is to
  map the value stream following the circuitous
  path of material through your process

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Lean (Value Added) Results

• PricePoint Top 10 Most Common Discharges

Source Wisconsin PricePoint System
(www.wipricepoint.org) January 2007 to December
2007
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Lean (Value Added) Results

• PricePoint Top 10 Most Common Discharges

Source Wisconsin PricePoint System
(www.wipricepoint.org) January 2007 to December
2007
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Opportunities for Major Improvements in Your
Healthcare Costs

• Health Risk Assessments (HRA)
• Employee Wellness
• Prevention
• Employee Cost Participation
• Case Management of Complex Cases