Family Care Partners of Jacksonville wants to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.  Christmastime is a time for family, and not only does it feel like a family here at FCP, we want to make our patients feel like we are here for their families.  With our pediatrics department, and adult medicine, also lab and x-ray, all trying to make your experience as comfortable and convienient as possible.  Hopefully making it so you can get in and out quickly and get back to your own families especially during this time of year.  FCP would also like to recognize all the caring people that took Angels from the Salvation Army Angel Tree, and opened their hearts and wallets to a bunch of children who otherwise would not have gotten anything.  Again, wishing you a joyous holiday season,  hold your loved ones close to your heart, and don’t forget to tell them they are there. Get into the spirit of giving this year and reach out into your community and help someone who needs it.  And, God bless us, EVERYONE!

Family Care Partners has been notified that our practice has been selected for inclusion in the next volume of Quality Profiles: The Leadership Series which will be published in December 2009.  The Leadership Series  this year focused  on advancing population health through the use of health information technology (HIT).  FCP responded to the call for Submission of Best Practices and provided NCQA and Pfizer with information related to the use of our EMR to improve the diabetic  outcomes of our patients. 

Quality Profiles: The  Leadership Series article ” Utilization of HIT to Standardize and Improve the Quality of Care for Patients With Diabetes Mellitus”  describes how FCP  improves the outcomes of our diabetic patients though our use of our robust EMR.   The ability of our EMR to provide our clinicians with health decisions  at the time of care and the ability to  run reports allowed us achieve positive patient outcomes.  Once we receive copies of the volume, we will share it with the staff.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS –

Family Care Partners just received their 2009 results from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Recognizing Physician Excellence (RPE) program.  We are excited to report that our group achieved a 97% percentile ranking from the RPE program based on the care  we provided our Blue Cross Patients  in 2008.  The percentile ranking is achieved by comparing the care we provide our patients versus the care provided by other  similar groups  in Florida.   The RPE  program looks at both Clinical Quality Metrics and Process Improvement components  of the practice to determine  the number of points achieved.

This reward is a reflection of the efforts of all the employees of FCP.  Our goal is ensure our patient received the highest quality of care possible.  Keep up the good work.