Collaborative Activities
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Alliance has four main strategic purposes:
- To create a culture of healthcare excellence
- To become an exemplary model for collaborative delivery of health care
- To pursue the best possible health for the people in our region
- To enable DHA members to be more effective by strengthening themselves financially
Collaborative Activities:
- Insurances/risk management
- Nurse recruitment/retention
- Website/health information
- Material purchasing
- Pharmacy purchasing
- Shared loan pool
- Electronic communication systems and data repository
- Health policy advocacy
- Population-needs-based clinical service planning
- Learning together about performance improvements
Benefits to local healthcare organizations and communities include:
- Economic benefits achieved through purchasing, loan pool, insurances, and other programs, exceed the cost of belonging
- Functional work teams who are able to address common challenges across organizations
- Influence over care provided to the broader region, while maintaining local identity
- Increased capacity to sustain local access to healthcare
- Sharing and comparing of assumptions and plans for the future
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