Medical Staff House Staff Orientation Manual - Montefiore Medical ...
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Evening Supervisor, Moses<br />
Carolyn Woodley, Pharm D 718-920-8354<br />
Manager, Oncology Pharmacy, Moses 718-920-8540/5778<br />
Royston Browne, BS, RPh<br />
Manager, Oncology Pharmacy, Einstein 718-405-8510<br />
James McCarthy 718-904-4173<br />
Ambulatory Pharmacy Manager, Moses 718-920-4934<br />
Steven Tuckman, BS, R.Ph.<br />
Specialty Pharmacy Manager<br />
Keith Veltri, PharmD, MS, R.Ph. 718-920-4934<br />
QUALITY MANAGEMENT<br />
Quality Management Department 718-920-5026<br />
Rohit Bhalla, MD<br />
Brandon Yongue, PhD<br />
The Quality Management Department is a team of professionals available to provide assistance<br />
in quality and performance improvement initiatives. Technical and consultative support is<br />
available in the following areas:<br />
• Access to statistical and data resources and expert clinical resources<br />
• Guidance in appropriate performance improvement tools and methodology<br />
• Guidance in regards to regulatory and accreditation standards<br />
• Advice/assistance in development and use of information systems in performance<br />
improvement<br />
• Facilitation of performance improvement groups<br />
PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT<br />
The provision of safe, high quality, cost-effective care in an atmosphere of service excellence is<br />
one of MMC's highest priorities. Performance Improvement is a systematic means of making<br />
positive organizational changes to increase patient safety, meet evolving standards of practice,<br />
satisfy patient/family needs and expectations, and increase the efficiency with which care is<br />
provided. There is a single overall plan for quality management for the medical center and one<br />
institution-wide committee, the <strong>Montefiore</strong> Quality Council, with oversight responsibility for<br />
performance and quality improvement.<br />
The methodology for Quality Improvement that MMC has adopted is the PDCA, Plan-Do-<br />
Check-Act model. This approach allows us to continually strive to meet high standards for<br />
safety, quality and cost effective health care and improved outcomes through better design of<br />
services and through a reduction in the variation in how care is provided. It is based on the<br />
methods of continuous quality improvement, whereby baseline data are collected, best practices<br />
identified through literature searches, interventions are designed, piloted, and if determined to be<br />
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