VHA's Non-Acute Care Services gives members a powerful way to boost the performance of their non-acute care facilities. Designed for ambulatory care, imaging centers, home health care, long-term care and pharmacies (retail or closed), the program helps these providers realize significant savings on a portfolio of products and services that meet their specific needs.
We help:
Strengthen relationships with their non-acute care providers
Control non-acute care facility product and service costs
Improve non-acute facility operations and performance
Earn cooperative cash returns based on purchase volumes from their owned, sponsored facilities
Edward Hospital, a 311-bed medical center in Naperville, Ill., has enjoyed four years of solid success after implementing DR Systems’ PACS in its three imaging centers in 2004. In addition to a $600,000 annual savings, Edward Hospital has seen marked improvements in radiologist productivity.
Today, Edward Hospital ranks number one for overall quality in Chicago’s south and west suburbs and was rated the number one non-academic hospital for overall quality in the entire Chicago area, according to a 2007 survey by National Research Corporation.
VHA helps members improve their clinical and economic performance. In this article, which appeared in Today's Surgicenter magazine, VHA's Armand Paladino and Novation's Cathy Denning, R.N., discuss an approach for ambulatory surgery centers to evaluate new technology to keep current with emerging trends.
