Long Island Health Network - LIHN

• Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center
• Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
• John T. Mather Memorial Hospital
• Mercy Medical Center
• New Island Hospital
• St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center
• St. Charles Hospital Center
• St. Francis Hospital - The Heart Center
• South Nassau Communities Hospital
• Winthrop-University Hospital

Long Island Health Network

One Huntington Quadrangle
Suite 1C14
Melville, NY 11747
Tel (631) 420-6800
info@lihn.org

In 1998, LIHN initiated its Clinical Resource Management Program to create a single, integrated approach to measuring and improving clinical quality and efficiency across the Network. The program is led by LIHN's Quality Team, whose mandate is to improve clinical quality and efficiency by standardizing care for the majority of patient cases handled within the Network. This is accomplished by utilizing the 47 inpatient and outpatient guidelines, which are authored by Network physicians and clinicians based on evidence-based medicine and "best practices".

LIHN's state-of-the-art databases enables the Network to monitor, evaluate, and improve performance on an extensive array of indicators relating to efficiency and quality of care.

LIHN has achieved remarkable results. In addition to improvements in efficiency, LIHN has increased the quality of care delivered by the Network hospitals.

Clinical Resource Management is an organized methodology that focuses on process, coordination of care, clinical guidelines, and outcomes in an effort to minimize variation in patient care. These outcomes are measured and monitored by the Quality Monitoring Council. This committee is responsible for the review of the data, action planning, and performance improvement as each pertains to the Clinical Guidelines.