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| Anderson | Bozic |
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| El-Kareh | Gibbs |
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| Grubbs | Han-Miu |
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| McLemore | Morrison |
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| Natale | Salomon |
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| Tang | Uslan |
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The yearlong UC Health Fellowships will build leadership skills and address a range of projects including ones to reduce hospital readmissions, decrease waiting times in emergency rooms and optimize antibiotic use in health care facilities. The fellows' institutions will receive a $50,000 award that will support a portion of the salary and benefits associated with their time spent on their projects.
"We want to leverage the incredible brainpower across the UC Health system to improve the value of hospital care through quality," CHQI Executive Director Terry Leach said.
UC launched the center in October 2010 as part of its commitment to improve the quality of care to medically vulnerable Californians while also developing strategies to improve the delivery of care to help contain costs. The center is governed by a board composed of the six UC medical school deans, five UC medical center CEOs and chaired by the UC senior vice president for health sciences and services. The center, which in July awarded its first round of grants, received initial funding of $5 million -- $1 million each from medical centers at UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC San Francisco.
The CHQI board selected the fellows from 34 applications by UC faculty and staff, which were evaluated on four components: applicant strength, application quality, consistency with the center's mission and the projects' potential return on investment. Fellows will receive mentorship from their campuses and will meet with the other fellows and leadership from all five UC medical center campuses.
The fellows include:
UC Davis
-John Grubbs, M.S., M.B.A., R.Ph., director of pharmacy, "Development of a UC Medical Center Specialty Pharmacy Program"
UC Irvine
-Lisa Gibbs, M.D., associate clinical professor of family medicine, medical director of the SeniorHealth Center, "Transformation of the Primary Care Practice to the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model"
UCLA
-Jim Morrison, senior research associate with the UCLA Health System Patient Safety Institute, "Modeling and Projecting the Impact of Patient Safety-Related Changes in Medicare Reimbursement at the Hospital Unit Level Within the UCLA Health System Over the Next Five to Seven Years"
-Daniel Uslan, M.D., assistant clinical professor of infectious diseases, director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, "Development of a UC-wide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program: Benchmarking and Beyond"
-Michael Yeh, M.D., FACS, associate professor of surgery and medicine, chief of the section of endocrine surgery, medical director of optimal care, "Improve Discharge Times After Elective Surgery"
UC Riverside
-Nasser Salomon, M.B.A., director of learning technologies, "Development of a Telemedicine Strategy for the UC Riverside School of Medicine"
UC San Diego
-Robert El-Kareh, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., assistant professor of medicine, "Certification of Competency and Rapid Feedback to Improve Discharge Medication Lists"
-Adrian Han-Miu, M.B.A., M.S.N., associate director of patient flow, "Improving Emergency Department Throughput"
-Elisabeth McLemore, M.D., FACS, FASCRS, assistant professor of surgery, "Minimally Invasive Recovery After Surgery"
UC San Francisco
-Wendy Anderson, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine, clinician-investigator with the division of hospital medicine and palliative care program, "Nurse-Initiated Multidisciplinary Patient- and Family-Centered Communications in the ICU"
-Kevin Bozic, M.D., M.B.A., associate professor and vice chair of orthopaedic surgery, core faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, "Episode of Care ‘Bundled' Payments"
-Ning Tang, M.D., assistant clinical professor of medicine, "Building a Primary Care Program to Reduce 30-Day Hospital Readmissions at UCSF"