Dear Colleagues,
In December 2009 we held the 4th Annual Winter Summit at the Camelback Resort in Arizona. As always, it was a wonderful event filled with content relevant to leaders in General Internal Medicine and networking with old and new friends. My thanks to the Kay Ovington, the executive committee and our Summit Chairs Chris Sciamanna and Missy McNeil for their help with organizing and ensuring the program was a success.
For those who weren't able to join us, I wanted to share with you some information about the program. This year we focused on "quality". We started the event with an overview by Jeff Norton from the Center for Enterprise Quality and Safety University of Kentucky Medical Center on how organizations should prime themselves to be LEAN and improve their quality ratings on those key "dichotomous" thresholds that have been set.
Next, Bill Moran, ACGIM past-president and current chair of the SGIM Health Policy Committee brought us up to date on what payment for dichotomous quality outcomes were in the upcoming health reform bills and how this might change practice in the hospital and outpatient settings. Bill took a complex topic and made it relevant and meaningful to us.
Our final speaker that first day was Rodney Hayward, who shared his views and data on why using these dichotomous outcomes for quality can sometimes be so detrimental to patients. He was provocative and inspiring.
The next day, Vikas Parekh and Ben Taylor presented about the newly developed Quality Portfolio (QP). Developed by the SGIM Academic Hospitalist Task Force, the QP provides a framework for our faculty to document their work and scholarship in quality and is the first of its kind. Attendees had a lively discussion about this exciting, cutting edge tool for faculty development including current limitations and future directions to provide more peer reviewed opportunities for our quality focused faculty. Learn more about it at our website (www.acgim.org).
We concluded with concurrent workshops. Eboni Price and Eric Warm presented an informative and practical "how to" on implementing better quality in the outpatient setting in the form of the Patient Centered Medical Homes. Their models target low-income populations and include trainees. Jeff Norton gave a terrific how to on tools needed to implement and conduct LEAN processes in the hospital setting.
I look forward to seeing you all on April 28th at the Spring Hess Management Institute preceding the SGIM meeting in Minneapolis. We are making final plans for the agenda, but intend to have programming focused on building your financial resources in these lean times.
ACGIM SUMMIT PRESENTATION MATERIALS |
EFFECTING CHANGE AT THE INSTITUTIONAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL
December 6-7, 2009 at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort and Spa
Paradise Valley, AZ
Jeffrey Norton, MSBE
Center for Enterprise Quality and Safety
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Health Care Reform Policy: Moving from Volume to quality? (1MB pdf file)
William P. Moran, MD
Chair, SGIM Health Policy Committee
Director, Division of GIM and Geriatrics
Medical University of South Carolina
State of Research on Quality (slides available upon request)
Rodney A. Hayward, M.D.
Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine and Dept of Health Management and Policy
Director, VA Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research
Director, The Measurement Core, Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
Make Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Count in Academic Promotion
The Quality Portfolio (175KB pdf file)
Benjamin B. Taylor, MD, MPH
Associate Chief of Staff for Quality and Patient Safety, UAB Hospital
Associate Program Director, Birmingham VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship
Vikas Parekh, MD - University of Michigan
Co-chair SGIM Academic Hospitalist Taskforce
Associate Director, Hospitalist Program Associate Director
Implementing the Patient Centered Medical Home: Outpatient Quality Improvement (1.7MB pdf file)
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PCMH self-assessment - Must pass elements (13.82 KB pdf file)
Chief Medical Officer
Tulane University Community Health Centers
Patient Centered Medical Home Leadership Decisions(1.7MB pdf file)
Eric J. Warm, MD
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Tools on Running a Lean Program on Transitions in Care (3MB pdf file)
Jeffrey Norton, MSBE
Center for Enterprise Quality and Safety
University of Kentucky Medical Center