FMEC in Focus - May, 2019
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Spotlight on: FMEC Innovators Network


Holly Perzy, MD, MMM, vice president of care delivery at Ohio-based Metro Health System, is a creative thinker who relishes a challenge. When she was presented with the chance to address escalating health care costs in her community, she set to work and helped create two distinctive direct primary care health plans, one she describes as “all about value” and one that is “all about relationships.” Perzy explains below.

SKYWAY: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HOSPITAL SPONSORS A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE - Presented by Holly Perzy, MD, MMM

As the founding Chair of the first Med-Peds academic hospital based department in the nation, Holly Perzy knows the importance of having vision. So Perzy joked that she quickly said yes when the new CEO of MetroHealth had one question for her: “How would you like to come to the dark side, the payer side?”
When government workers in the county continued to see increasing deductibles and soaring health care costs, Perzy and senior Metro Health administrators launched a health solutions company that offered affordable medical services within its network of Metro Health physicians. Perzy said it made sense for the largest hospital in the community to offer its services to county workers. “No matter what we do, the health care curve continues to rise,” she explained. Read More
Congratulations
The FMEC offers a proud shout out to the following Award winners who were recognized at the 2019 STFM Conference:

The Ladder Institute

The LADDER Institute will be a year-long program with initial and final meetings held in conjunction with the FMEC Annual meeting. A midyear in-person meeting will occur with date and location to follow. Longitudinal programming between meetings will occur through webinars focused on leadership development skills. Participants will be linked with a career development mentor who will assist each participant in developing a summative career development plan.

Background
The FMEC seeks to develop the full potential of Family Medicine. The full potential lies in the future, and emerging and mid-career leaders will shape this future. We seek to identify and nurture those who will become visionary leaders and advocates for Family Medicine within our health systems.

The LADDER Initiative will serve to provide a sustainable longitudinal leadership development program for select emerging and mid-career leaders that will focus on setting strategic personal and professional objectives and developing the skills to build influence and make a difference. Learn More
Creating A Culture of Wellness

I just returned from the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) meeting in Toronto. There was a strong focus on resident wellness at this meeting, and it quickly became apparent that every residency program is moving toward creating their own "culture of wellness." Many are at the beginning stages of the process and are struggling with how to design and implement their wellness initiatives.

I believe the first step of the process is to accurately define what wellness is. According to the World Health Organization wellness is an "optimal state of physical, mental/emotional and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease."

I have adopted and subscribe to a much broader definition of wellness provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which includes eight dimensions of wellness.

To access the full article and learn more about the eight dimensions of wellness, click here: Creating a Culture of Wellness.

CaseNetwork wants to support your residents with a comprehensive user-friendly curriculum designed to help them cope with the unique demands of the healthcare profession. For the next 30 days we are offering a 15% discount on the "CoreWellness" program thru June 30, 2019.  


Jeffrey Levy, MD
CEO, CaseNetwork
Author of CoreWellness: A Physician Wellness Program

FMEC Travels

Last year, FMEC travels led us to Greece and the home of Hippocrates. This year, we will keep closer to home with a 5 day canoe trip in the Adirondacks.
John Rugge, MD Author of "The Complete Wilderness Paddler" and Allen Dappen, MD featured in " The Passage "  will lead us on an expedition through the lakes of the Adirondacks September 5th - 9th.

We are still working on the specifics. If you are interested in learning more, contact: laurence.bauer@fmec.net

DPC 2019 Summit
Register today!
Early Bird ends May 31st
The 2019 Direct Primary Care Summit will be held in Chicago, Illinois June 28-30.

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