So much about what the leaders at North Memorial HealthCare, a two-community-hospital health system based in Minnesota, are doing these days, exemplifies the characteristics of the boldest pioneering organizations in healthcare today. As a result, North Memorial was named the co-second place winning team in the Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program. Jon Nielsen, M.D. shares his perspectives on the pre-term labor induction program there.
Hospitals and health systems nationwide are struggling these days to create a healthcare system of improved care quality and patient safety, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, accountability, and transparency. Yet a small number of pioneering organizations are already charting a bold, clear course—among them, North Memorial HealthCare, a two-community-hospital health system based in Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, which encompasses the 300-bed North Memorial Medical center in Robbinsdale and the 100-bed Maple Grove Hospital.
