Lee Health Innovation Program

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Our Approach to Designing the Future of Care

Innovation is a core part of how Lee Health builds, prepares, and adapts to the ever-changing healthcare industry. In alignment with Lee health’s competitive strategy and growth targets, Lee Health’s Innovation Program Office invests in the exploration and development of emerging market solutions and strategic partnerships while supporting an innovation culture across the health system.

Three Pillars of Innovation Program

Innovation Culture

Embed practices that stimulate innovation and empower team members.

Strategic Partnerships

Explore co-creation opportunities that support Lee Health’s long-term strategy.

Market Solutions

Cultivate the user voice and drive development of leading innovation solutions.

Opportunities for Partnership

Lee Health is committed to staying at the forefront of innovation and partnering with those that have a shared vision for the future of care delivery through creative problem-solving. By partnering with us, you'll gain access to our network of experts and thought leaders, as well as our development capabilities and unique environment of care delivery in Southwest Florida. We are focused on:

Simplifying and expanding thinking on how patients and consumers access care
Exploring new value propositions that differentiate the health care experience.
Redesigning the care team experience to create workforce multipliers.

Together, we can collaborate through creative problem-solving and co-creation of new solutions to address the critical needs of our communities, customers and care team members.

Immersive Innovative Experience

This immersive experience is an example of how the IPO creates dynamic environments to stimulate organizational creativity.

We make progress in the Rapids, you know, the calm water is nice and I think so much of medicine has been in the calm water. You know, it's great, you show up, you have your office where patients come to you and you get to drop a charge and it's very safe and comfortable but covid through some Rapids in the last couple years and we thank God have been forced to change. We it's catapulted us into think about how can we reach consumers differently and how can we reach them better?

Well, one of the things that we're doing is part of our Innovation program That was really important to us, is to Define what it means to us. I think starting with that. And in our case, it's creating new value for the people that we serve for our own team members, and getting people energized about creating Big Ideas and collaborating to bring them to those that matter to us, most our employees and our community of patients. What it's going to look like is to have a culture of innovation where you're thinking about it. Is your processing. The, how could this be better? What's a better solution, any problem that your basking in is our problem.

We're all in this together and we all have the capacity to innovate for solutions for the first launch of our Innovation program, really focusing on access because we know there's so much demand for care and we can't possibly deliver on that need and meet that demand without making some changes in the solutions that we offer. So we have some really exciting ideas on how we can. Can deliver greater care outside of our facilities. Welcome to our event? So the immersive Innovation experience is all about unveiling that idea and it's helped pass Health passes, really a membership into our system, to be able to get care that's personalized for you. Wherever you are.

I've said, you know many times that we can change Healthcare and many times that we can change Healthcare and design a delivery model that will that will be the model for the rest of the country. Because we've got issue. The position here in Lee County, you know, we control the health care delivery system. That's why we put clinics out and Dunbar. We take care of everybody. So we can design things and do things that are completely different and we can be the model. We could create a whole new way of healthcare delivery just in a completely different way than we've ever done before and really make a difference and have it, add value to know the people we serve. think it's really exciting. I think for a long time after we've always made a lot of excuses about why we can't. And this kind of opened us up to the possibility of what can be and what we're capable of actually doing. When we kind of, just think outside the box. the minds in this organization or incredible, The Innovation. That's the potential for Innovation. This organization is unbelievable. As long as we can get out of our grind, right? And have and have a situation like this, where we can start thinking outside the norm of what we see. So, again, thank you all for being here.

Innovation at Lee Health

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Best Care Collaborative

Best Care Collaborative is an Accountable Care Organization (ACO), participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) which is implemented through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers that come together to provide coordinated, high quality care to their Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries.
The Center for Care Transformation

Lee Health's Center for Care Transformation helps connect the medical community to create a healthier Southwest Florida. Our thriving, active community expects healthy solutions that utilize advanced technology, personalized treatment, and more convenient options. The Center for Care Transformation provides different solutions that go far beyond hospital care. Learn more here!