
The Trinity Health Leadership Team recently awarded its "Excellence In
People-Centered Care Redesign" to the
SFMC Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Team under the leadership of C. James
Romano, MD and Debra
Birkenstamm. This award recognizes the Teams contribution to significantly
impacting the care of the SFMC
patients enrolled in this value-based program.
"Our innovative initiatives are the direct result of working in a multidisciplinary
framework of care design
with our SFMC teams in order to improve the cost of care and outcomes for the
population we serve in our
community", stated Debra Birkenstamm, Corporate Director Population Health.
The BPCI program will be advancing to a new model of care from CMS in the fall of
2018. This will result in
the expansion of our current diagnoses and allow us to foster an affordable,
accessible patient-first
healthcare system for an even larger number of our patients.
Congratulations to BPCI, Case Management, Physical Therapy, Cardiovascular Service
and our CDI teams for
their awesome work!