• Focus on actions the employer can take in its role as health benefit designer, purchaser, and work- site manager, to implement a high performance health benefit plan and to have a positive impact on employee health and productivity.
• Adopt promising national initiatives and bring them to Memphis so we can build on the expertise and experience of the best examples nationally to improve employer purchasing approaches and realize fundamental, transformational change in our delivery systems.
• Collaborate locally to build strong relationships with key stakeholder groups to ensure broad, deep and sustainable change in the marketplace.

MBGH participates in eValue8 (a program of the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH)), which establishes & measures performance on purchaser expectations for health plans and other employee benefit vendors around plan administration, provider network composition, quality & efficiency of care, value of plan and vendor-provided services, employee engagement, employee health and overall employer value.


MBGH is the Memphis-area Regional Roll-Out Leader for the Leapfrog Group and is responsible for working with our hospitals to publicly report on their progress in implementing strategies that have been proven to improve the quality and safety of care. MBGH also works with The Leapfrog Group, area-hospitals, and health plans to promote alignment of payment with the hospital’s quality and cost performance.

Go to www.leapfroggroup.org to get results on our Memphis-area hospitals.


MBGH’s primary vehicle for collaboration in Memphis is The Healthy Memphis Common Table, a health improvement collaborative whose mission is to encourage and support people coming together to improve the health and healthcare of everyone in our community. Examples of MBGH activities through HMCT include:

• Membership on the Leadership Team and co-chair of the Performance Measurement & Public Reporting Work Group for HMCT’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.
• Designing and implementing consumer engagement strategies to help people use health and performance information when they are making key decisions about their health and/or health care services.

• The National Business Coalition on Health is dedicated to value-based purchasing of health care services through the collective action of public and private purchasers, in order to accelerate the nation's progress towards safe, efficient, high-quality health care and improved health status of the American population.
• The Leapfrog Group whose mission is to trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality and affordability of health care by supporting informed healthcare decisions by those who use and pay for health care and promoting high-value health care through incentives & rewards.
• The National Commission on Prevention Priorities, which uses innovative, evidence-based methods to assess the value of preventive services that protect and improve health and helps decision-makers choose preventive services that maximize the impact of their investments.
• The National Transitions of Care Coalition which is dedicated to improving the quality of care coordination and communication when patients are transferred from one level of care to another.

• Educational meetings & materials
• Special projects focusing on evidence-based, effective health benefit design
• Strategic planning for work-site based health improvement initiatives