Group Health Physicians Receives AMGA Acclaim Award

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September 8, 2010

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) today announced that Group Health Physicians has been chosen as the recipient of the 2010 AMGA Acclaim Award for our system-wide implementation of the medical home model to improve care coordination and care management for our patients.

The award will be presented at AMGA's Institute for Quality Leadership Annual Conference, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 in Hollywood, Fla.

AMGA's prestigious Acclaim Award honors organizations that embrace the Institute of Medicine's aims by incorporating the six attributes of an ideal health care delivery system as identified by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System — care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

Applicants are asked to measurably demonstrate progress toward achieving the six aims and transforming their organizations to provide health care that is consistent with the aims. Applicants are evaluated in a blinded review process conducted by nationally recognized leaders in health care quality.

Three additional groups were also announced as Acclaim Award Honorees: Dreyer Medical Clinic, HealthPartners, and Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group. Past award recipients include Mercy Clinics, Inc.; Luther Midelfort-Mayo Health System; Henry Ford Medical Group; Health Partners; and Park Nicollete Health Services.

"These organizations demonstrated a monumental leap forward in providing patients the health care they need and want," said Donald W. Fisher, AMGA's president and chief executive officer and AMGF secretary/treasurer. "We salute the dedication of the organizations' leadership and health care providers in improving patient outcomes, patient safety, and efficiency of care; improving preventive and chronic care; and establishing uniform clinical and service measures to document excellence."

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