About Leading Healthy Communities

The purpose of Leading Healthy Communities is to provide community health leaders a single source of practical information supporting the creation, financing and execution of community initiatives aimed at improving the health of the community. The site has two key components; dozens of case studies illustrating ‘how to’ be successful and a comprehensive ‘action guide’ that provides templates, surveys and step by step guides to building community support.

About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 43,000 other healthcare sites, Premier Inc. is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates the nation's largest healthcare purchasing network, the most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Washington, D.C.. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

About Wye River Group on Healthcare and the Foundation for American Health Care Leadership:
Wye River Group on Healthcare (WRGH) and its affiliate Foundation for American Health Care Leadership (FAHCL) are not-for-profit 501C3 forums for collaboration and open exchange of ideas to promote constructive healthcare system change. WRGH uses a dynamic process that enables it to stay ahead of the emerging trends in healthcare finance and delivery. These organizations identify and advance ideas with broad application to healthcare policy and the market place, through multiple educational outlets. - more - For seven years, they have represented virtually every major sector in healthcare, has served as a sounding board and an ad hoc advisory panel to bipartisan state and Congressional leadership, vetting healthcare financing proposals, quality initiatives and infrastructure concepts. The philosophical underpinning of WRGH is a desire to develop and articulate a market-driven vision for healthcare in America, while promoting public- private collaboration. Governments--local, state and federal--are critical in this framework. Accountability, standard setting and a strong safety net is needed in a true system of healthcare. We believe that the best way to achieve these objectives is through public-private collaboration building on the many community-based partnerships between healthcare stakeholders throughout America that are successfully working to address what ails our healthcare system. For more information, visit www.wrgh.org.

Read September 13, 2007 press release titled:
"Premier healthcare alliance, Wye River Group on Healthcare launch best practices Web site to improve delivery and finance of healthcare in communities nationwide"