BMC2 May 2024 Newsletter

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We enjoyed a productive and engaging month of meetings with many opportunities for learning, sharing, and networking. During the PCI Collaborative Meeting in East Lansing, the State of Michigan presented us with a special tribute for the incredible work we do as a consortium. This reflects the dedication and innovation each of you contributes to

our shared mission of improving quality of care and outcomes for the patients we serve

BMC2 has an important new resource to share with the release of our PCI Health Disparities Dashboard. We encourage you to utilize this tool and share it with your teams. We look forward to sharing more resources in the coming months.

On June 5th, we will say goodbye to our managing director, Annemarie Forrest, who has served BMC2 since April 2020. BMC2 has seen incredible growth and success under her innovative and caring leadership. We are sad to see her go, but excited for her as she moves into a new role with new challenges and opportunities.

Thank you for an amazing spring! We look forward to the summer and continued partnership and collaboration.

Hitinder Gurm

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BMC2 Honored With Special Tribute From The State
of Michigan

The State of Michigan recognizes BMC2’s “innovative spirit and unwavering dedication” as a pioneer in cardiovascular care with a special tribute presented during this month's BMC2 PCI Collaborative Meeting. Read the tribute – which outlines the profound impact BMC2 has on improving health care for patients in Michigan – on our website. We celebrate this recognition with our consortium members and our sponsors at Blue Cross Blue Shield. It is only possible because of our shared mission and collaboration. Thank you!

NEW RESOURCE

Health Disparities Dashboard

Last fall, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan charged BMC2 with creating Health Equity Dashboards for each of our registries. BMC2 PCI is the first registry to develop a Dashboard and it is now available for consortium use. BMC2 PCI Participants will find a link to your site’s dashboard by logging into our secure shared space on Nextcloud in the next few days. You will receive a notification from Nextcloud when the reports are posted.

Read our blog to learn more about the dashboard's development and capabilities. BMC2 Vascular Surgery and MISHC dashboards will be released later this year.

Dr. Nick Osborne presents to a room of BMC2 Vascular Surgery participants at the Radisson at Kalamazoo Center on May 1st, 2024.

BMC2 MEETINGS

Upcoming Meetings

MISHC Collaborative Webinar – June 18th, 2024, 6 pm – 7:30 pm on Zoom.
PCI Pay for Performance (P4P) 2025 Goal Webinar – July 9th, 2024, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm on Zoom
PCI Coordinator Webinar – July 11th, 2024, 10 am – 11 am on Zoom.
Vascular Surgery Physician and Pay for Performance (P4P) 2025 Goal Webinar – July 18th, 2024, 6 pm – 8 pm on Zoom

Visit our blog to view our May meeting summaries.

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CALL TO ACTION

Display Packet Materials At Your Site - Please display and distribute the materials included in the packets you received during the in-person meetings this month. Packets included:

Posters that denote your site as a participant in BMC2 with an overview of how it works, why it’s important to patients, and a note about recent recognition the consortium received.
Patient Advisory Council fliers and, for Vascular Surgery, postcard handouts. Remember that sites will receive one P4P extra credit point when a patient you refer joins the PAC. Just share the materials with your patients and encourage them to contact us if they are interested in joining.

Please contact the Coordinating Center if you did not receive these materials. You can also download the PAC recruitment materials from our website. You will find them under “Helpful Links and Downloads” on our “Coordinator Resources” page.

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NEWS FROM MISHC

David A. McNamara, MD, MPH presented the poster, “Institutional Variation in Patient Radiation Doses During Transcatheter Valve Interventions: A Statewide Experience,” during the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) Scientific Sessions May 2nd – 4th, 2024 in Long Beach, CA. Co-authors are Jeremy Albright, PhD; Devraj Sukul, MD, MSc; Stanley Chetcuti, MD; Annemarie Forrest, MSN, MPH; P. Michael Grossman, MD; Raed M. Alnajjar, MD; Himanshu Patel, MD; Hitinder S. Gurm, MD; and Ryan D. Madder, MD. Learn more in the news section of mishc.org.

ADDITIONAL NEWS OF NOTE

A Farewell To BMC2 Managing Director, Annemarie Forrest

Our managing director, Annemarie Forrest's, last day at BMC2 is June 5th. Annemarie shares, "I have learned so much from you and the excellent work you are doing to improve the quality of cardiovascular care in Michigan. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity I have had to contribute to BMC2."

The position posting to backfill Annemarie's role is live. View the description and information about how to apply on the University of Michigan jobs website. We encourage you to share the information with your networks.

In the interim, please contact the following for any BMC2- or MISHC-related needs:

General inquiries: Pam Benci, plf@umich.edu
BMC2 PCI: Kathleen Frazier, frazieka@med.umich.edu, Amy Shirato, shirato@med.umich.edu
BMC2 VS: Rebecca Fleckenstein, rflecke@med.umich.edu
MISHC: Sheryl Fielding, sfields@med.umich.edu

We wish Annemarie the best as she moves to her new role.

Members of the BMC2 Coordinating Center run through a workflow mapping activity and engage in the ''Marshmallow Challenge'' during a half day of professional development on April 11th, 2024.

Members of the BMC2 Coordinating Center participated in an MHealthy Lunch and Learn on April 22nd, 2024.

A Peek Inside the BMC2 Coordinating Center

John Sly has medium brown hair and a beard and wears glasses, an orange button-down shirt, and striped tie.

John Sly Receives 2024 Staff Award For Excellence - Congratulations to John Sly, BMC2 Lead Applications Programmer, who was selected as a recipient of the Michigan Medicine Department of Internal Medicine 2024 Staff Award for Excellence! John was recognized for his leadership in key data and infrastructure projects at BMC2 in recent years. Read more about the award and John’s contributions to BMC2 on our blog.

MHealthy Gardening Lunch and Learn - On April 22nd, members of the Coordinating Center contributed various greens and toppings for a salad bar, and we enjoyed a meal together while BMC2 Vascular Surgery’s Clinical Quality Improvement Lead, Rebecca Fleckenstein, shared her passion for gardening with us. Rebecca outlined planning for your garden, what to plant when, and shared helpful tips and her favorite resources with us. Following Rebecca’s presentation, we put our new knowledge to the test as we planted seeds including cucumber and lettuce.

Support for BMC2 is provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network as part of the BCBSM Value Partnerships program.

Although Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and BMC2 work collaboratively, the opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints of BCBSM or any of its employees.

Further, BCBSM does not have access to BMC2 data, and all patient episodes occurring at engaged hospitals are included in the data registries, regardless of payer.

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