Regional Roll-Out Leader/Lead Organization Information

Name: General Motors Corporation (GM)
Link: www.gm.com
Description: Automotive Manufacturer. Largest private purchaser of health care in the U.S.

Contact: Marsha Manning
Title: Manager, SE Michigan Community Health Care Initiatives
Address: 2000 Centerpointe Parkway, MC 483-520-092, Pontiac, MI 48341-3146
Phone: 248-753-4701
Fax: 248-753-0324
Email: marsha.manning@gm.com

Why did your organization decide to apply to become a Leapfrog Regional Roll-Out leader?

General Motors is one of the founding organizations in the Michigan Health and Safety Coalition (MH&SC), which was initiated in 2000 to improve the quality of care in Michigan by focusing on cost-effective patient safety improvements across all settings of care. GM is also a founding frog in Leapfrog. Goals for this roll out are to continue to maintain and improve the excellent hospital response to the annual combined MH&SC/Leapfrog hospital survey.

Regional Roll-Out Market Information

Geographic coverage: Michigan

Population: 10 million

Employer/purchaser characteristics:

Number of employer/coalition lives in RRO area: 473,000

Manufacturing is the dominant industry in Michigan in terms of Revenue or annual payroll, dominated by automotive manufacturers (GM, Ford Motor Company and DaimlerChrysler Corporation) as well as hundreds of automotive suppliers. 

See: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GQRTable?_bm=y&-ds_name=EC0200A1&-geo_id=04000US26&-_lang=en

Hospital characteristics:

Total number of general acute care facilities and total number of beds in RRO (i.e. total number of targeted hospitals): 138 hospitals with approximately 22,000 beds

Breakdown by hospital system 
 Ascension:   10 hospitals
 Detroit Medical Center: 5 hospitals
 Henry Ford Health System: 3 hospitals
 MidMichigan Health System: 4 hospitals
 Oakwood Healthcare System: 4 hospitals
 Promedica:   2 hospitals
 Sparrow Health System: 3 hospitals
 Spectrum Health System: 5 hospitals
 Trinity Health:   11 hospitals

Insurer characteristics:

Largest plans and % of the market share for HMO/PPO products
Market share is heavily dominated by BCBSM throughout the state.

State/Local government activities:

a. At the request of the governor, the MH&SC coalition was asked to serve as the State Commission on Patient Safety (under PA 119-04) with the charge to examine ways to improve patient safety in the State of Michigan. Report delivered to governor 11/05.
b. Michigan Health Information Network stakeholder meeting in 12/05 kicked off a statewide effort to bring stakeholders together to develop approaches to increased adoption of health care information technology. MHIN in supported by the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Michigan Department of Information Technology, as well as Jennifer Granholm, Governor of the State of Michigan.

In the state of Michigan, the annual Leapfrog survey is conducted jointly with the MH&SC hospital survey. See www.mihealthandsafety.org.