Physician Impact Project
Purpose
To optimize patient care and enhance patient safety by establishing evidence-based practices and processes for selected accreditation, regulatory and safety requirements as the community standard of care.
Description
The Health Council leads this region-wide project aimed at encouraging uniform adoption of evidence-based practices in the area of physician communications and expectations.
This project benefits physicians and other clinicians practicing at multiple locations (who now know that the standards are consistent from hospital to hospital). Most importantly, this project raises the caliber of a health care community through the standardization of methods that have a direct impact on the quality of hospital and patient care provided in the Tristate.
Hospitals have standardized certain quality and accreditation practices across member organizations to benefit physicians and other clinicians practicing at multiple facilities and ultimately to enhance patient care and safety. The three recommendations grounding the Physician Impact Project (PIP) include standards for:
- Verbal order authentication process
- Procedural verification (e.g. time out) and
- Professional behavior management
An analysis shows that since the recommendations were implemented in 2009, the Physician Impact Project has seen near complete compliance in those three areas. In 2010, additional recommendations were rolled out for a fourth area that centered on physician handoff communications that occur during transitions in care.
Health Council Contact
For more information, contact Dora Anim.