Nominate a physician colleague or yourself for the Medical Center Medical Staff Recognition Awards

• Clinical Care Award
• Clinical Innovation Award
• Clinical Scholar/Research Award

Nominate an active member of the credentialed medical staff. Each winner receives a cash award of $5,000 from the Medical Staff, presented at the Medical Staff Awards Dinner on Oct. 7. Award prizes are intended to support some aspect of the recipient’s work.

Any member of the Fairview or Academic Health Center community, including University of Minnesota Physicians, may nominate. Self-nominations are accepted. Some aspect of activities leading to the nomination must have occurred in 2007.

Awards Criteria

Clinical Care Award Criteria

• Provides exemplary care to patients in the spirit of Fairview’s mission of improving the health of the communities we serve.

Examples:

• Receives consistently high ranking in patient satisfaction data
• Demonstrates caring, compassion, competency and good communication skills
• Demonstrates superior patient care outcomes
• Held in high esteem by colleagues and staff – someone to whom you would refer a friend or family member

• Fosters an environment of collaboration, collegiality and teamwork

Examples:

• Receives consistently high ratings in feedback from colleagues and team members
• Serves as a mentor to new medical staff
• Supervises or mentors residents or medical students
• Has served on one or more medical staff committees in the last year
• Is committed to human service through volunteerism

• Demonstrates deep understanding and respect for patients by modeling the Fairview values of dignity, integrity, service and compassion.

Examples:

• Has served on a medical mission
• Offers medical inservices to colleagues or physicians in training
• Promotes Fairview services in the community through participation in news media interviews or community presentations

Clinical Innovation Award Criteria

• Demonstrates success in redefining the delivery of patient care in the spirit of Fairview’s mission to improve the health of the communities we serve.

Examples:

• Has initiated or participated in a hospital quality process improvement effort, making something more patient- or family-friendly
• Has set up a hospital/clinic-based clinical program

• Can demonstrate improved outcomes in at least one aspect of the Institute of Medicine’s Six Aims of Care:

Safe—avoiding injury from the care that is intended to help the patient

Effective—based on the use of systematically acquired evidence to determine whether an intervention, such as a preventive service, diagnostic test, or therapy, produces better outcomes than alternatives - including the alternative of doing nothing

Patient centered—respectful and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensures that patient values guide all clinical decisions

Timely—avoiding waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care

Efficient—avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas and energy

Equitable—does not vary in quality because of the patient’s individual characteristics such as gender, age, race or ethnicity, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, primary language, geographic location, physical capability or socioeconomic status

Clinical Scholar/Research Award Criteria

• Demonstrates outstanding accomplishment through national or international recognition in patient-based scholarship and research.

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Nomination Form

Deadline is May 23, 2008

• All nominations must include:
• • Written narrative of not more than 1,500 words
  • Names of three clinical associates from any discipline to write letters of support.  Medical staff services staff will contact the three individuals.  For clinical scholar/research award, one name must be someone outside Fairview or the University of Minnesota.
  • If applicable, relevant supporting documents, which may include news media articles, committee reports, bibliography, patient satisfaction data or related material
• You may nominate in a couple of ways:

1. Submit materials electronically: 

- Complete the Electronic Nomination Form

- E-mail all supporting information to cdipanc1@fairview.org

2. Print the Electronic Nomination Form and send the completed form and supporting materials by regular/interoffice mail or fax by Friday, May 23, 2008, to:

            Attn: Charleen DiPancrazio
            Medical Staff Recognition Awards
            Medical Staff Office
            University of Minnesota Medical Center
            2450 Riverside Ave.                       Phone: 612-237-1945
            Minneapolis, MN 55454                     Fax : 612-273-1946