About Torrance Memorial Medical Center - Torrance Memorial Medical Center continuously ranks first in the South Bay (Southern California) in overall quality and for having the best doctors and nurses (National Research Corporation). With 401 inpatient beds and associated facilities, Torrance Memorial is an innovative nonprofit hospital. Since its founding in 1925, the hospital has earned its reputation by offering high quality and advanced healthcare services including burn care, surgical services and treatment for cancer and heart disease. Among numerous distinctions, Torrance Memorial has been named a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission; Breast Imaging Center of Excellence; Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence; and is an American Heart Association Gold honoree.
"To drive major improvements, performance-based payments must exceed 10% of total provider income. Incentives of this magnitude can only be mobilized if they originate in payer savings.”
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH,
Mercer Health
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Other IHA partnerships:
University of California Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) BCHT conducts research into existing and improved criteria for coverage, consumer cost-sharing, and other dimensions of management for biomedical innovations, and provides academic programs for UC Berkeley graduate students and professional development for health care organizations.
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) , a national coalition of regionally-based, multi-stakeholder health improvement callaboratives that are working to improve the quality and value of health care delivery.
California Center for Public Health Advocacy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organizations that raises awareness about critical public health issues and mobilizes communities to promote the establishment of effective state and local health policies.
