Quality Programs

As the Director of Quality Improvement for the Section of Hospital Medicine, I would like to welcome you to the Quality Improve page for our group.  For Hospitalists, quality improvement is part of day-to-day life, not just a professional niche or research domain.  The Section engages in QI efforts through many different channels, including a quality improvement committee, Section-based projects, and a new program to help create more quality leaders.  There is also a strong connection between quality work completed within the Section and the medical center.  Section members serve on multiple committees and taskforces related to quality improvement within medical center, including Hypoglycemia Prevention, Cardiology Pathways, Informatics, Sepsis, Sickle Cell Disease Pathway, Department of Medicine Quality Committee, and many more.  The Section has led innovations by being the first in the Department to create, seat, and convene a formal peer review committee.  The quality improvement/patient safety curriculum for the Internal Medicine residency program is co-led between Hospital Medicine and General Medicine faculty.  The QI work generated from Hospital Medicine providers has been presented in national forums including the Society of Hospital Medicine, Society of General Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians, plus generated multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts.  The opportunities for quality improvement with Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago are great and only continue to grow as the Section does. 

Thank you,

Matthew Cerasale, MD, MPH, SFHM
Director of Quality Improvement, Section of Hospital Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UChicago Medicine & Biological Sciences