Affiliation Criteria

Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System may consider an affiliation partner that:

• Can ensure that SVMH will be a high quality, full-service, cost effective health care provider for the residents of Salinas and Monterey County and will preserve significant local involvement in hospital governance;
• Has a strong cultural compatibility with SVMH;
• Will enhance SVMH’s ability to recruit and retain high quality medical staff and to adapt to evolving physician practice models;
• Will enhance SVMH’s access to capital to fund needed medical technology, equipment, health care information systems and a long-term capital plan for a new hospital facility;
• Can achieve cost efficiencies via overhead savings, group purchasing contracts, improved clinical efficiencies and improved labor utilization;
• Will provide SVMH with contracting capability and capital to successfully participate in risk sharing vehicles (such as ACO’s) for managing the health care of patient groups;
• Will bring improved accounting and decision support tools to evaluate new and existing service lines to achieve clinical and financial efficiencies;
• Will provide resources to improve employee and union relations;
• Will provide enhanced board, management, medical staff, and employee continuing education and career development;
• Will maintain continuity of existing charity care policies; and
• Offers attractive financial terms including fair market value consideration and certainty of success.

Please provide your input on the criteria for a potential partner by sending an email to:  info@svmh.com