Outcomes

Ascension Health is committed to creating safe, accessible, adaptable and affordable healing environments. We will make healthcare work for the patients who use it and the caregivers who deliver it.

Five-Year Outcome

A revolutionary patient-centered care delivery environment with one or more functional transformation prototypes is operating within three years (one pilot site) and is transferred to six hospital affiliates and health facilities within five years.

What will these new delivery environments look like?

Here is a possibility based on successful realization of Ascension Health's
Call to Action:

• Provides all persons with equitable access to care



• Offers adaptable places and means of healthcare delivery, including a rationally designed care continuum



• Ensures a patient-focused experience with extraordinary service, safety and quality



• Empowers healthcare professionals to take care of patients, not paperwork



• Integrates new technologies that deliver useful information at the point-of-care and provide high quality at a low cost



• Is supported by a healthcare financing system that rewards efficiency and quality



• Is built upon continuous improvement and sharing best practices

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