Central versus Local Quality Efforts: The Need for Both

Contributions: AC is the Co-Director of the Population Health Research Institute at the MetroHealth System and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She serves as the Project Director of HRSA funded Primary Care Champions grant that offers mentored practice transformation training to primary care providers, physician assistants (PA), and PA students in urban underserved clinics. AC has trained over 50 participants from primary care clinics and has expanded the training beyond Ohio. As Senior Practice Consultant for Better Health Partnership, she mentored and facilitated primary care practice transformation projects throughout our geographic region. Her work in this area was recognized as a best practice by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. PP is an internationally acclaimed leader in patient safety who has distinguished himself nationally and internationally with his ground-breaking work around saving lives, improving patient safety, and improving both the quality and value of healthcare. His life-saving clinical practices have yielded dramatic improvements in hospitals across the United States and around the world.