Ridgeview Medical Center : service line structure lays groundwork for surgical care improvement Case study. High-performing health care organization Lashbrook, Aimee, author. Edwards, Jennifer N., author. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) Guideline Adherence -- organization & administration Hospitals, Private Hospitals, Voluntary Organizational Case Studies Practice Patterns, Physicians' Process Assessment, Health Care -- organization & administration Product Line Management -- organization & administration Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care Surgical Procedures, Operative -- standards Vital Signs. Location: Waconia, Minn. Type: Private, nonprofit hospital. Beds: 109. Distinction: Top 3 percent in a composite of five surgical care improvement process-of-care measures, among more than 2,300 hospitals (more than half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for the analysis. Timeframe: April 2007 through March 2008. See Appendix for full methodology. This case study describes the strategies and factors that appear to contribute to high performance on surgical care improvement measures at Ridgeview Medical Center. It is based on information obtained from interviews with key hospital personnel, publicly available information, and materials provided by the hospital during May 2009 through June 2009. New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, October 2009 Commonwealth Fund, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101530781-pdf 101530781 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530781 English Minnesota United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0