Community Physicians

Engaging the Entire Team: More Energizing Than Your Morning Coffee | How is adult primary care leadership improving quality metrics? In fiscal year 2020, they focused on engaging the entire care team. Find out how they did so here.

An Exercise in Collaboration & Coordination | The Baltimore north region’s greatest accomplishment of fiscal year 2020 was also one of JHCP’s largest. Read more about how East Baltimore Medical Center transitioned into an FQHC.

Collaboration: The Heartbeat of Success | Collaboration and integration with other Johns Hopkins member organizations is a point of focus for JHCP Heart Care leaders. Read about how the section collaborated with Sibley Memorial hospital in FY20.

Health Equality Through Language Services | Language services was an area of focus for the central operations team in FY20. Read about how they created a new central scheduling position and leveraged technology to improve health equity.

From Plan to Action: Emergency Disaster Privileging | In FY20, credentialing manager Deborah Brazil completed a new Emergency Disaster Privileging Plan…just in time for a global pandemic. Read about how the team expedited the credentialing process for emergency use.

Mentorship: Growth, Opportunity and Development | In FY20, the JHCP Diversity Council began a new Mentorship Program, aimed at connecting underrepresented minorities with mentors who can help with career growth and professional development.

Virtually Everywhere | The JHCP department of Education and Training were main players in the pivot from in-person to telemedicine visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about how they supported our practices, providers and patients.

Where There’s a Plan, There’s a Way | Name one JHCP project that the finance team isn’t involved in. (Hint: you probably can’t.) One of the team’s most impactful FY20 accomplishment is the enhancement and acceleration of business planning and modelling.

Minimally Invasive Surgeries for Maximum Patient Satisfaction | By the end of FY20, all of JHCP’s Gyn/Ob surgeons were certified in minimally invasive surgery. Read more about MIS and the impact of this cutting-edge technique.

Equipped for Quality Improvement | In FY20, Project EQUIP gained its own data analyst, and the program has flourished. Learn more about how data is driving quality improvement across five Johns Hopkins Medicine-affiliated hospitals.

Making the Impossible Possible | COVID-19 interrupted business as usual for departments across JHCP – the HR department is no exception. Read about how they hired more than 100 providers within four weeks to staff a field hospital at the Baltimore Convention Center.

Health Care from Anywhere: The Growth of Telemedicine | The rapid adoption of telemedicine was a mammoth achievement. Read about how the Information Systems team supported JHCP’s providers and staff in a transition that happened nearly overnight.

The Intranet: An Organization’s Central Nervous System | One of the marketing and communications department’s most impactful achievements of FY20 was the redesign of JHCP’s Intranet. Read about the project’s challenges and successes here.

In Pursuit of Bigger and Better Things | Maryland suburbs leadership set out to “ace” their quality metrics in FY20 – and ace them, they did. Read about how they achieved improvement in quality scores, in many cases, by double digit margins.

Safety, Convenience and Simplicity | The COVID-19 pandemic spelled trouble for the neurology section, as they were displaced from their Sleep Disorder Center. Read about how they quickly adapted to new workflows for safe and convenient home sleep testing.

HRO Principles: Pandemic Approved | According to NCR leadership, the five principles of High Reliability Organizations are more than just “fluff that sounds nice.” Read about how regional leadership instilled these principles throughout the national capital region.

Virtual Patient Feedback: The Compass that Guides Us | Like many areas of our lives, JHCP patient experience embraced the opportunity presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and went digital. Read on about how the virtual transition improved Patient and Family Advisory Councils.

An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure | According to chief of pediatrics Michael Crocetti, vaccinations were one of the greatest contributions to medicine during the 20th century. Read about how JHCP’s pediatric and family medicine sections advocate for vaccination.

Tableau: Providing Direction and Driving Change | In FY20, the quality and transformation team developed eight new Tableau dashboards. Read about how dashboards come to be, and what impact they have on Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Supporting Research to Enrich Lives | Participating in at least two PCORI initiatives was a goal for JHCP research in FY20. One of nine they supported, RICH LIFE, is making strides to maximize health equity by addressing blood pressure and heart disease health disparities.

JHCP’s Tiger Team: Impact That Can’t Be Tamed | JHCP’s Tiger Team, a panel of five subject-matter experts, has earned their stripes. In FY20, the team had 138 meetings across high-focus sites, with five of them “graduating” from their services. Read about their invaluable work.