Purpose

This component of the Pursuing Excellence initiative is designed to help support Sponsoring Institutions that seek to improve the quality of their clinical learning environments by focusing selectively on one of the six original CLER Focus Areas of patient safety, health care quality, care transitions, supervision, duty hours/fatigue management and mitigation, and professionalism.

Although narrower in scope and shorter in duration than the Pathway Innovators component, this component will bring together key individuals from the participating sites of ACGME-accredited Sponsoring Institutions to identify new structures and processes for optimizing the learning environment in the chosen Focus Area.

Pathway Leaders – Patient Safety Collaborative

• Carolinas Medical Center
• Duke University Hospital
• Indiana University School of Medicine
• Maimonides Medical Center
• St. Vincent's East Family Medicine
• University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• University of Kentucky College of Medicine
• University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• University of Pennsylvania Health System

Pathway Leaders — Quality Improvement: Health Care Disparities Collaborative

The nine Sponsoring Institutions chosen are:

• Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
• Citrus Health Network, Inc. (Hialeah, Florida)
• HealthPartners Institute (Bloomington, Minnesota)
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York)
• Kaiser Permanente Northern California (Oakland, California)
• Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (Newark, New Jersey)
• Ohio State University Hospital (Columbus, Ohio)
• University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
• VA Caribbean Healthcare System (San Juan, Puerto Rico)

The Pursuing Excellence initiative is pleased to announce the newest Pathway Leaders who will form the next Patient Safety Collaborative.

• Community Health Network (Indianapolis, Indiana)
• Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation (La Crosse, Wisconsin)
• Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency (Augusta, Maine)
• Sidney Kimmel Medical College (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (Los Angeles, California)
• University of Louisville School of Medicine (Louisville, Kentucky)
• University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland)
• University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)
• University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (Tampa, Florida)
• University of Tennessee Health Sciences (Memphis, Tennessee)

The launch of this Collaborative kicks off the fourth Learning Community in the Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments initiative.

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