Care, teams, and quality improvement

The medical home model has been held up as a good way to improve patient care while reducing costs and encouraging teams of stakeholders to collaborate. So where is the evidence? A study published this week found little improvement in quality of care and no reductions in cost. Although the study didn’t offer reasons for the lackluster results, one suggestion is that the practices that volunteered for the medical home pilot program were already performing well, so better results might have been harder to generate. There’s always room for improvement, but some practices have more room than others.

If there is room for improvement when it comes to the organization of your hospital’s medical staff, check out The Guide to Medical Staff Bylaws, by Mary J. Hoppa, MD, MBA, now available from HCPro. You can click here for more information. 

Thanks for reading!

Mary Stevens, editor, Medical Staff Leader Insider