Two hospitals set out to reduce maternal harm. Both have good clinicians, an analytics team and a quality committee. One joins a collaborative that hands it early benchmarking data, weekly working sessions with peers and a shared set of measures. The other keeps working alone.
A year on, only one of them can show what changed.
That is not a hypothetical. Members of a national perinatal collaborative covering more than 500,000 births a year reported seven times greater improvement in reducing in-hospital maternal mortality than non-participants. Its members also helped build a prenatal risk index that flagged a detectable risk score in 97% of patients who went on to have a severe complication.
The pattern repeats across every area the e-book covers, because the mechanism is the same: shared measures, results published among members, named owners and deadlines, and a check on whether the gain held. Members of one population health collaborative earned more than $500 million in shared savings in PY2024 on that model.
Inside the guide:
- How St. Luke’s University Health Network cut more than $38 million a year and earned A ratings from the Leapfrog Group at every hospital
- Why collaborative members earn 29% more in Medicare value-based purchasing incentives than non-members
- Four new collaboratives launching in 2026, covering AI, rural health, growth strategy and managed care