The California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) published a report entitled "Reinventing Health Care Delivery: Innovation and Improvement Behind the Scenes" (Sept, 2009).
The full report is online: http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemid=134067

The paper highlights 9 innovation centers/organizations across the nation, including:
- Kaiser's Garfield Health Care Innovation Center
- Vanderbilt's Center for Better Health
- Mass General's Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
- Mayo Clinic's Center for Innovation
- Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
- Ascension Health
- Alegent Health
- Geisinger/Geisinger Ventures  

... and The Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (www.TheSHIPHome.org).

SUMMARY --- Hamstrung by an increasingly complex, costly, and disorganized system of care, health care organizations are following the lead of the corporate world and embracing innovation as a way to overcome the seemingly intractable problems that have undermined U.S. health care delivery for decades. Today's innovation centers — most of which are affiliated with large hospitals or health systems — range in scope from modest internal programs to large, formalized organizations with dedicated physical space, sizable staffs, and external clients. Key areas of emphasis include facility design, operational efficiency, optimized information technologies, improvements in the patient experience, and care quality. Leaders at health care innovation organizations nationwide were interviewed to learn more about how the centers operate, the objectives they are pursuing, and some of the challenges they face.