Brent Shive

These collaborative groups have achieved:

• Top decile performance in clinical quality and patient satisfaction
• Feasibility and development planning for clinically integrated networks
• Supply cost reductions through aggregation of purchasing volume such as regional GPOs
• Cost reductions in physician preference items such as orthopedic implants
• Supply standardization based on clinical performance, outcomes, and cost
• Improvement in labor efficiency as a result of process improvement and implementing best practices

Brent started his career at SunHealth as a management engineer, and implemented one of the first automated procedural level cost accounting systems in a hospital. He worked closely with managers and physicians within all departments to identify all direct and indirect costs for each service charged. Throughout his career his greatest satisfaction and success has been in helping his clients accelerate their performance improvement efforts through collaboration with other providers. Executive leaders have frequently recognized him as a key resource in their performance improvement successes.