Emergency Medicine Quality Improvement | Emergency Medicine Quality Management

The EPMG performance improvement program is a comprehensive emergency medicine quality improvement program designed to provide overall group, site and individual physician assessment of performance. It is based on nationally recognized and/or internally determined benchmarks, reflecting evidence-based best practices in Emergency Medicine. The program has multiple components, providing several avenues for quality assessment, and results in the identification of practice variation and opportunities for improved performance, outcomes measurement and system-wide or local implementation of practice improvement initiatives.

EMP's Quality Improvement Program includes:

Site Quality Director program, stipended based upon site volume and performance

Site Peer Review audits, including

Patients who return to the ED withint 72 hours and are admitted

Deaths in ED

Sentinal events

Patient complaints

Interdepartmental requests

EMS cases

Radiology discrepancy process

Positive Culture program oversight

On-line case based educational programs

Mandatory on-line Risk Management Orientation Program

Mandatory on-line HIPAA training

New Physician chart audits performed

Maya R. Heinert, M.D., F.A.A.P. Emergency Physicians Medical Group Contact Emergency Physicians Medical Group 3300 Douglas Boulevard Suite 405, Roseville, California 95661 US Phone , Toll Free (800) 424-EPMG, Fax (916) 780-7533