Dartmouth will demonstrate to others how its done. The only problem is Dartmouth already has the track record and the evidence to begin wider implementation. Now they have to essentially do what they've already been doing for years instead of just simply mentoring others how to do it. Here's the evidence:
http://www.rwjf.org/qualityequality/challenge.jsp
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$35M For Dartmouth Health Care Delivery Center
Dartmouth College is getting $35 million to open a center it hopes will help the nation take the next big steps in health care reform: improving quality while lowering costs. The historic health care overhaul legislation President Barack Obama signed in March will give millions of Americans access to health care, but "the real rocket science in health care right now is in the delivery," said Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim, who has been promoting the idea of a national institute on health care delivery since arriving at Dartmouth last July. Now, he has a $35 million commitment from an anonymous donor to establish the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which will bring together experts in everything from medicine and management to sociology and systems engineering to figure out what is working in successful health care systems such as Minnesota's Mayo Clinic. They'll then teach practitioners, who can return home and make changes immediately, Kim said.
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