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Savannah, GA

Regional Roll-Out Lead/Leader Organization Information

Name: Savannah Business Group on Health
Link: http://www.seda.org/content.php?section=data
Description: Regional business healthcare coalition

Contact: Gary Rost
Title: Executive Director
Address: 7395 Hodgson Memorial Drive Suite 105, Savannah, Georgia 31406
Phone: 912 961 7300
Fax: 912 961 0740
Email: gary@sbg-online.com

Secondary Contact*: Kristen Willoughby
Title: Executive Assistant
Phone: 912 961 7300
Email: kristen@sbg-online.com

Why did your organization decide to apply to become a Leapfrog Regional Roll-Out Leader?
Savannah Business Group applied to become a Leapfrog Regional Roll-Out leader as part of our overall value purchasing principles.  As a direct to provider contracting coalition, the integration of a national program with established measurable standards was very desirable. 

In your view, what kind of impact has Leapfrog had on your market thus far?
Since the implementation of Leapfrog in the Savannah MSA all hospitals have established an ICU hospitalist program and the robustness of the CPOE programs have markedly improved.

Local employers now routinely include participation in Leapfrog as a contract provision.

Regional Roll-Out Market Information

Geographic coverage: Savannah MSA (Chatham, Bryan, Effingham counties)

Population: 300,000

Number of employer/coalition lives in RRO area: 31, 357

List of area’s largest employers and local industry breakdown:
Gulfstream
Memorial Health University
St Joseph’s Candler Health System
Georgia State employees
City of Savannah
Chatham County

Hospital characteristics:
2 large integrated systems with one rural critical care access hospital

Total number of general acute care facilities:
Memorial Health University – one hospital
St Joseph’s Candler – 2 hospitals

Local health plans and % of the market share for HMO/PPO products:
SBG Preferred Health Resources – 6% (all self funded)
Quality Partners – 6% (all self funded)
BCBS Georgia – 60%

State/Local government activities:
http://www.gahospitalpricecheck.com/
http://www.gha.org/pha/Qualitycheck/report/understanding.asp
http://www.gha.org/pha/
http://www.healthtransformation.net/projects/Georgia_Project/
http://health.state.ga.us/programs/ohip/healthinfo.asp