VIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH
The newly formed Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is keeping CHI Franciscan’s mission control room, which is made up of a team of doctors and nurses reviewing real-time data on patients and making calls to front-line providers.
The team at Seattle s Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is embarking on something of an experiment cherry-picking quality-improvement tools from their two merging organizations. The goal is to bring quality levels up across all the hospitals now under the new brand.
The deal merging Virginia Mason and CHI Franciscan is a little over 100 days old, and healthcare players in Washington state and elsewhere are cautiously watching how they integrate operations.