BJC Collaborative

While remaining independent, the Collaborative members have a footprint of more than 4,800 hospital beds spanning Missouri, Illinois and Kansas, and combined annual revenues of almost $7 billion, allowing the members of The BJC Collaborative to focus on:

• deploying clinical programs and services to improve access to and quality of health care for patients
• lowering health care costs and creating additional efficiencies that will be beneficial to patients and the communities served by the member organizations
• achieving cost savings

Additional opportunities that may be explored by the Collaborative include developing and sharing best practices around:

• Population Health Management – population health information and assessment, physician recruitment and engagement strategies, including Accountable Care Organizations and medical home development
• Clinical and Service Quality – performance improvement, staff development and training, including eLearning, management and leadership development, clinical skills training, clinical decision support, safety event reporting and emergency preparedness
• Capital Asset Management – supply chain relationships, facilities design, clinical engineering, technology evaluation, energy conservation and facilities management
• Financial Services – capital resource evaluation analysis, treasury options, revenue cycle, business intelligence and actuarial expertise
• Information Systems and Technology – meaningful use of health IT, data center management, data warehousing, software applications, hardware configurations and emerging technologies, data security and patient confidentiality

Founding Members

The four founding partners are:

BJC HealthCare (St. Louis, Mo.), a 13-hospital system with urban, suburban and rural hospitals serving eastern Missouri and southern Illinois.

Memorial Health System (Springfield, Ill.), a five-hospital, non-profit health care organization serving Illinois patients in a 40-county region.

Saint Luke’s Health System (Kansas City, Mo.), an 11-hospital system with several primary and specialty care practices and the largest non-profit health care provider in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Cox Health (Springfield, Mo.), Springfield’s only locally owned not-for-profit health system serving a 25-county area in southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas.

Participant Members

Blessing Health System (Quincy, Ill.) joined the Collaborative in May 2013 and serves a 100-mile radius.

Southern Illinois Healthcare (Carbondale, Ill.) joined in September 2013 and has three hospitals serving a seven-county area in southern Illinois.