The Affiliated Partners Program (APP) helps AzHHA members achieve their missions and improve the health of people and communities across the state by providing meaningful, innovative, and affordable business solutions that meet the needs identified by the program’s board of directors.Â
Companies interested in partnership undergo a strategic vetting process overseen by the program’s board of directors to ensure they provide the right products and services needed to respond to the ever-changing healthcare landscape.
APP’s focus areas are:
- Workforce – addressing all aspects of the healthcare workforce, including clinical and operational, permanent and contingent, and entry-level to C-suite, with resources to recruit and retain a qualified labor force
- Financial Stability – enhancing economic processes, managing risks, and fostering fiscal resilience
- Quality – offering services that address the safety, effectiveness, patient-centricity, timeliness, efficiency, and/or equitability of care
- Innovation – introducing a new or improved product or service to the healthcare market, including but not limited to technological resources
If you represent a company interested in pursuing partnership, please complete this inquiry form.
To get connected with any affiliated partner listed here, reach out to [email protected].
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Partner Since 2024
Solution: Provider Development Planning and Community Needs Assessments
A health system’s physician portfolio is both its most valuable asset and its most significant investment. Smart systems are using proprietary data, advanced analytics, and innovative strategies to unlock the full potential of their physician networks. 3Dhealth builds data-informed strategies to help its partners better visualize the communities they serve, making sure hospitals and health systems have the physicians they need to provide the most effective care for their patients.
Benefit to AzHHA members: 15% discount off usual and customary prices
Partner since 2020
Solution: Workforce & Contract Labor
Adaptive Workforce Solutions (AWS) combines best practices in People, Process, and Technology through their managed service provider (MSP) program and a third-party, web-based vendor management system. The vendor-neutral technology gives AzHHA members the ability to broadcast their needs to hundreds of staffing vendors at one time, keeping billing rates competitive and filling needs faster. AWS also offers a payroll service program, contract labor consulting, and for AzHHA members an Emergency Staffing Service that provides for immediate staffing needs without a long-term contract.
Benefit to AzHHA Members: A free workforce assessment bench-marked by industry experts to provide hospitals with a customized contract labor workforce plan that is transparent, consistent, and sustainable.
Partner since 2019
Solution: Financial Management / Accounts Payable
Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk management products and services. Bank of America is a powerful ally to healthcare organizations of every size. With more than 30 years of industry experience, the company seamlessly delivers an unrivaled range of advisory, capital raising, and treasury management solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Benefit to AzHHA members: Cash rebate on e-payables for qualifying nonprofit member hospitals.
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Partner since 2023
Solution: Employee Education and Learning Management
careLearning is a non-profit online education company designed to help healthcare organizations by providing reliable, trusted, and easily accessible education solutions. Governed by the state hospital associations responsible for its creation almost 25 years ago, careLearning offers high-value, low-cost solutions that include a Learning Management System (LMS) comprised of a full course catalog for healthcare that includes but is not limited to compliance and regulatory education; course creation capabilities; a course sharing library; free continuing education units for a variety of disciplines; curriculum management and deployment to streamline content delivery; and full-time, no-cost product support and training for administrators. Other offerings include competency management and performance management systems as well as a clinical student orientation tool.
Benefit to AzHHA members: Lower fees arising from a nonprofit organization developed by and for hospital associations and their members
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Partner since 2023
Solution: Provider Credentialing & Enrollment; Patient Financial Services
Hospital Services Corporation (HSC) is an award-winning provider of services to the healthcare industry, operating as a subsidiary of the New Mexico Hospital Association. HSC’s staff readiness and health insurance aggregator services include:
- Practitioner credentials verification – As an NCQA-certified Credentials Verification Organization (CVO), HSC shortens the time for hospital practitioners to be enrolled and reimbursed by your contracted health plans. This service is fast and accurate, with an average of 18 days to secure verifications.
- Provider enrollment – HSC will enroll and re-enroll physicians and other practitioners with Medicare, AHCCCS, and your contracted commercial payers by navigating each payer’s documents, processes, and requirements.
- HealthXNet – An insurance portal that aggregates Arizona’s payers to assist your staff with eligibility verification, co-pays/deductible amounts, claim status inquiries, and management of prior authorizations, all in one web-based system.
Benefit to AzHHA members: Lower fees that come from working with a similar hospital association that is focused on driving members’ operational success for patient value
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Partner since 2023
Solution: Compensation Data and Analysis
Salary.com offers a full complement of compensation solutions. It is the leading resource for compensation data, software, consulting, and education to help organizations attract and retain top talent by enabling smarter pay decisions. Salary.com’s Healthcare West Compensation Survey includes 500-plus healthcare-specific and 500-plus benchmark job titles, providing hospitals with the most up-to-date aggregate information on a variety of important topics including healthcare-specific pay insights, pay practices, and benefits.
Benefit to AzHHA members: Receive survey results at up to a 50% discount and receive additional discounts on software products and consulting services
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Partner since 2018
Solution: Applicant and Employee Background Checks
Universal Background Screening is a nationally accredited firm offering employment background checks and drug testing with a specialization in healthcare. Also offered are identity services, primary source and reference verifications, sanction searches, and more. Universal Background Screening is committed to providing accurate, compliant background screening services with the highest standards for customer service. It has been voted a top enterprise screening firm for 13 consecutive years by HRO Today magazine in a client survey-based award.
Benefit to AZHHA members: Receive a 20% discount on background screening services as applied to usual and customary prices. In addition, the one-time set-up fee is waived and members are paired with a dedicated account services representative.
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Partner since 2023
Solution: Peer Review Service
As a subsidiary of the Washington State Hospital Association, Washington Hospital Services offers an external peer review service to AzHHA member hospitals, providing a systematic evaluation of quality and appropriateness of patient care and diagnosis, occurring on-site or remotely and across a variety of service lines. This peer review service, which was originally designed around helping critical access hospitals meet CMS conditions of participation, is also available to larger organizations looking to free up staff time and resources.
Benefit to AzHHA members: Lower fees that come from working with a similar hospital association that is focused on driving members’ operational success for patient value
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