American Excess Insurance Exchange, RRG (AEIX) is a hospital owned and controlled excess professional liability company managed by the Premier Insurance Management Services, Inc. (PIMS) a subsidiary of Premier, Inc. AEIX is beginning an 18 month Perinatal Initiative (PI) with a subset of 16 of its managed hospitals with the goal of improving patient safety and reducing risk exposure of the perinatal services at the participating hospitals.

The AEIX Perinatal Initiative will encompass a number of components including the identification of structural differences across the hosptials; analysis and initiation of process improvement activities using care bundles, team, simulation, and common language training; surveys of safety culture and patient satisfaction, along with internal and external benchmarking of outcome measures to demonstrate improvements in patient safety.

NPIC/QAS is a data partner with Premier on this project and will be providing participating hospitals with comparative outcome data for the period prior to the initiation of the PI (baseline period) of CY 06 and 07 and quarterly for the post-training period of 7/1/08-12/31/09. Participating hospitals will receive data for their own hospital as well as aggregate comparative data for a group of participating and non-participating hospitals.

In the News:
Premier, Inc. launches perinatal patient safety initiative. The article, "Hospital Staffs Train for Safe Delivery of Babies", was published in USA Today (May 14, 2008).
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The article, "National Safety Effort Targets Perinatal Injuries", was published in American Medical News (June 16, 2008).
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