District Hospital Strategy

By John Zoglin

El Camino Hospital will first be a value-based health care provider offering top decile, acute care quality at mid-level pricing, moving toward continuum partnerships that integrate care coordination and delivery strategies focused on the Triple Aim of quality, service, and affordability.

"El Camino Hospital will be a locally controlled leader in optimizing the health and wellness of our communities in Silicon Valley, differentiated by innovative continuum of care developed in partnership with physicians, businesses, and payors."

...and Positioning Statement: El Camino Hospital will first be a value-based health care provider offering top decile, acute care quality at mid-level pricing, moving toward continuum partnerships that integrate care coordination and delivery strategies focused on the Triple Aim of quality, service, and affordability.

Imbedded within these statements are four health care goals that indicate an evolution of El Camino Hospital's direction from its priorities over the first 50 years. These goals reflect the dynamic health care environment:

1. Focus on quality of care not just within the confines of the hospital campuses, but across the continuum of care. Research indicates that patients are often at most risk in transition between care givers; El Camino Hospital must take a leadership role in integrating and coordinating care with physicians and other care givers throughout episodes of care.

2. With healthcare costs becoming increasingly unaffordable, as an institution we can no longer be committed only to quality. El Camino Hospital must also do whatever we can to make health care as affordable as possible.

3. The delivery of healthcare is increasingly a partnership. Not just among health care service providers, but also between care givers and patients. Patients' and their families' needs and wishes deserve respect.

4. We must re-invigorate the spirit of innovation that delivered the first Medical Information System in the country here at El Camino Hospital. A cultural commitment to innovation across not only technologies but also processes can accelerate both the translation of research to patients and the adoption of processes based on evidence based medicine