'Super Campus' to Promote Medical Teamwork
For most of human history, healthcare disciplines have trained in separate silos. Doctors, dentists, nurses and physician assistants rarely crossed paths until they met in the patient care arena.
Professional isolation, however, is no longer acceptable. No single profession rules the new environment of value-based care, population health and outcomes-based reimbursement. Modern medicine is a team sport. We’re all in this together to provide the best possible outcome for our patients.
Our system of medical education needs to reflect this new reality. That’s why when Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University teamed up to create a new Health Education Campus, we threw out the rule book and started from scratch.
Now we’re building a Health Education Campus that is being designed from the ground up to promote the integration of healthcare professionals. It all started last year, when we announced plans to build a new home for Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine and its Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Program right on the Cleveland Clinic medical campus. This week, we were thrilled to announce that Case Western Reserve’s School of Dental Medicine, School of Nursing, and a proposed training program for physician assistants have joined the project. It’s now a virtual super-campus for medical professionals at every level.
Everyone involved has been invited to re-imagine health education for our time. Teams from each school are working with the architectural firm Foster + Associates to design the optimal integrative environment. Plans call for a soaring interior space surrounded by high-tech classrooms, robotic simulation labs, and advanced study environments. Public areas and extracurricular activities will promote interaction among the different schools. Curricula will emphasize collaboration, and students will study side-by-side in environments that duplicate those in which they will eventually practice.
This project is no small undertaking. We ultimately expect to enroll more than 2,500 students on the 11 acre campus. The project as a whole is a 50-50 venture between Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve.
Healthcare is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation and is changing how we deliver care to patients and how we get reimbursed for services. The focus is now on quality and outcomes for patients, while moving away from fee for services. This requires a team of providers – with a variety of expertise and experience – working together to care for patients and why an integrated, education program is not just important, but absolutely essential.
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9 年Absolutely awesome, refreshing outlook! TTUHSC SON promotes this concept throughout its nursing programs. Would love to see this type of campus incorporated there. It would be a perfect fit with the vision they promote!!
Healthcare Executive
9 年What a great suggestion Cal! Integrating IT could solve one of the biggest challenges facing health care providers today. The use of the EHR, ANY EHR, takes too much of the provider time away from direct patient care activities. Healthcare providers are plagued by "click fatigue" documenting patient encounters into a system designed to do everything BUT enhance the patient experience. data collection for state and federal reporting, for NIH, CDC, and WHO disease tracking, for insurance claims and reimbursement incentives, etc. Less time for face to face patient interactions and decreases in the number of patients a provider can see in any given day were expected, unexpected however was the inverse relationship between provider productivity and template driven the systems. It seems the click and wait, click and wait task interrupts the providers train of thought. Logically, engaging IT sooner rather than later should help to create solutions that benefit all stakeholders.
Software Engineer @ Block
9 年Wow! Great idea to integrate the programs. It will create teamwork and cohesion right from the start.