Outcomes project can make you a $60,000 winner
AMGA sponsors QI award for medical groups
When quality improvement leads to better outcomes, patients are the winners. But you can be a winner, too, with a new award program sponsored by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) of Alexandria, VA.
The Acclaim Award recognizes "physician-directed health care organizations that measurably improve health outcomes and quality of life for patient populations with a specific disease." The Grand Prize winner will receive a Steuben crystal statue and a $60,000 grant to continue outcomes management projects. As many as four other honorees will receive $10,000 grants. The award program is sponsored by Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. in Kalamazoo, MI.
The deadline for applications is March 1.
"We want to encourage people to share information, and we want to provide incentives for medical groups to collect outcomes," says Clese Erikson, MPAff, research coordinator for AMGA. "Eventually, we plan to put together a compendium of different ideas on health outcomes projects, to develop a resource guide for other medical groups to use."
In evaluating applications, judges will evaluate the commitment of the medical group’s senior leadership to outcomes improvement, says Erikson. "Did leadership give the necessary resources to the project?" says Erikson. "Did they see it as a priority?"
The project also must demonstrate improvement in patients’ health and quality of life, says Erikson. "They have to have a demonstrated improvement in patient outcomes," she says. "It can’t just be that the organization improved response time over the telephone. You have to tie that to how patient care improved."
Medical groups with more than one project that qualifies can submit multiple applications, says Erikson. "But only one can win," she says.
Editor’s note: For more information about the AMGA Acclaim Award, contact Clese Erikson at AMGA, 1422 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314. Telephone: (703) 838-0033. World Wide Web: http://www.amga.org.
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