Medicine Institute puts patients first by making the Cleveland Clinic their Medical Home for comprehensive, coordinated, and personal health care. The Institute will study approaches to improve performance in patient-centered care and educate the next generation of physicians and other caregivers in giving superior personalized healthcare.
Why a Medicine Institute? Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute has the advantages of:
- Your own personal Cleveland Clinic Physician to coordinate your care;
- Delivering the highest quality primary care and hospital medicine services; including superior patient experience ratings;
- Providing outstanding access to Cleveland Clinic primary care and preventive services;
- Being a national leader in the chronic disease management and research in primary care settings, particularly in diabetes;
- Serving as a laboratory for innovation
- Educating the next generation of physicians
Quality Initiatives:
Quality counts when choosing a hospital or physician for your healthcare. Providing unbiased health information is always a precedent at Cleveland Clinic. Each year, Cleveland Clinic departments report significant data on outcomes, volumes, surgical and medical trends as well as a review of new technologies and innovations specific to their areas of expertise. Patients and referring physicians can use the information to make informed decisions when choosing or recommending a hospital or specialist for medical or surgical care. Currently, 30 Outcomes booklets are available in print and on the Internet. Updated annually, they cover specialties ranging from internal medicine to cardiology to urology as well as highlight statistics for particular procedures and conditions, along with other key data.
The Medicine Institute Quality Committee meets regularly to promote a culture of outstanding patient care and outcomes. Ways to optimize Chronic Disease Prevention, Screening, and Treatment and Patient Safety are measured and improved on an ongoing basis.
Better Health Greater Cleveland: This collaborative is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is designed to improve the quality of ambulatory healthcare provided to patients with chronic health conditions by promoting teamwork and quality improvement among area providers, insurers, and purchasers of health care.
Cleveland Clinic Family Health Centers as well as the main campus of Cleveland Clinic have been recognized by Better Health Greater Cleveland in measuring, monitoring and managing diabetes better than the national average as reported by the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
International Diabetes Center (IDC): Efforts are also underway to pursue diabetes provider recognition through NCQA (National Committee on Quality Assurance). Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute and Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases Institute have partnered with United Healthcare and the International Diabetes Center of Park Nicollet Health System to assess and improve our diabetes care in all primary care areas. Medicine Institute Chairman, David Bronson, MD is co-chairing this quality initiative.
The Hypertension Improvement Team, led by Robert Jones, MD, was notified that their application to American Medical Group Association’s Compendium of Best Practices in Managing Hypertension was accepted. The team will receive a $2500 education grant to support quality improvement efforts and the development of a case study for future publication.
