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Health Systems Management (HSM) - “An educational organization
serving learning organizations”
Located in Dayton, Ohio, HSM was created in January 2000,
after the School of Medicine identified community and educational
needs in health services organizations. A $2.5 million gift
by Mr. Oscar Boonshoft endowed the Chair in Health Systems
Management and Richard Schuster, MD, MMM was selected to lead
the development of the division.
The mission of HSM is to promote the development of management,
health economics, leadership, and population-based skills
for physicians, hospitals and health systems, as well as other
health care providers and facilitate dialogue in health care
public policy. HSM provides a Health Care Management Certificate
Program, which started its first cohort in March 2003. This
year long course offers an executive level educational experience
within a health care context. The program was developed to
attract physicians, managers, nurses, pharmacists and other
health care providers seeking the ability to apply a more
practical business and management approach to the ever-changing
health care world. Upon successful completion of the Certificate
program, participants are able to transfer credits into the
MBA program at Wright State University (WSU). A dual MD/MBA
degree program is scheduled to start in 2004 as a combined
effort of the Wright State School of Medicine and College
of Business.
HSM has targeted cardiovascular disease (CVD) as a means
to help educate our community on disease prevention and risk
factor reduction and to improve physician outcomes. In 2002,
WSU HSM was awarded a contract from NHLBI as one of 12 EDUC’s
(Enhanced Dissemination Utilization Center) in the country.
HSM has developed 3 separate but interrelated projects in
our community promoting CVD prevention and risk factor reduction.
One major project has been working with the largest group
of primary care physicians (120) in Dayton to promote better
outcomes by performing baseline and follow-up audits, and
discussing best practices.
A second project is with the largest hospital system in our
community, Premier Health Partners, targeting hypertension
management in inner city health centers and clinics. Our approach
is to work with the physicians and staff promoting the use
of JNC VII guidelines for managing hypertension in this high
risk, population, and benchmarking their performance against
these guidelines. Emphasis has also been placed on the proper
process/procedure for performing accurate blood pressure measurement
in the ambulatory setting.
The third project involves a mass media campaign titled,
“Know Your Numbers.” A coalition
of local health care companies, insurers, employers, physicians
and other business leaders have come together to support a
community effort targeting middle aged women, to “know
their numbers”: cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar,
and waist measurement.
HSM is responsible for leading the coalition, as well as
providing the research analysis to measure the effect in our
community. After one year, our data shows that over 10,000
women have had their blood pressure and /or cholesterol checked
as a direct result of the campaign, and 48,000 people have
had their numbers checked. The campaign is currently being
expanded into another major Ohio city as a result of funding
through the Ohio Department of Health and CDC.
HSM is proud to be a Center of Excellence of the COSEHC organization
and looks forward to continued sharing of research and programs
that make a difference in the management of CVD.
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