CAMP ZAMA, Japan (November 21, 2016) - MEDDAC-Japan's BG Crawford F. Sams U.S. Army Health Clinic (BG Sam's AHC) received high praise for it's Family Medicine Clinic during a Regional Health Command-Pacific Organizational Inspection Program (OIP) visit.
The OIP team stated that "MEDDAC-Japan's Family Medicine Clinic's performance improvement projects were among the best Army Medical Home examples they had seen."
One of which includes Family Medicine's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) performance improvement project which has consistently enabled the clinic to improve HEDIS measures for the Camp Zama community. According to the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), HEDIS is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America's health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Among them are the following:
◾Asthma Medication Use
◾Persistence of Beta-Blocker Treatment after a Heart Attack
◾Controlling High Blood Pressure
◾Comprehensive Diabetes Care
◾Breast Cancer Screening
◾Antidepressant Medication Management
◾Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Status
◾Childhood and Adult Weight/BMI Assessment
Additionally, the OIP team stated that BG Sams U.S. AHC OIP results were among the best they had evaluated to date. This is a direct result of the leadership and knowledge within MEDDAC-Japan's patient centered medical home management team that includes Lt. Col. Jonathan Pederson, Officer in Charge, Tonya Heredia, Clinical Nurse Officer in Charge, Derek Wolske, Group Practice Manager and Staff Sgt. Edgar Valencia, Family Medicine noncommissioned officer in charge, along with the hard work and dedicated commitment of all the Family Medicine providers, nurses and medics.
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