Case Study
Main Line Health saves $46 Million Through Performance Improvement Efforts
Main Line Health saves $46 Million Through Performance Improvement Efforts2 guidehouse.com Challenge In 2017, Main Line Health set an ambitious goal: eliminate disparities and preventable harm while achieving top-decile results around quality and performance, reduce costs through more informed operational decisions, and improve the patient and employee experience. Main Line Health, a not-for-profit health system serving portions of Philadelphia and its western suburbs, adopted Baldrige as a framework in 2017 to better serve these communities. The health system sought to apply Baldrige best practices to reduce operational costs by millions of dollars and achieve next-level performance excellence throughout the system. But the work would not be easy. Many of the “low-h
