Poster Details

Poster Submitter: Rebecca Silverman, MPH

Department: Center for Digital Transformation

Email Address: rebecca.silverman@uchicagomedicine.org

Role: Staff (non-nurse)

Project Lead: Sachin Shah, MD / Medicine

Project Collaborators:

  • Stephen Weber, MD / Faculty
  • Heather Himelhoch, PhD, MPH / Staff (non-nurse)
  • Jincy Oommen, / Staff (non-nurse)

Departments Included in Project: Ambulatory Services, Family Medicine, Medicine,

Project Classification: Timeliness, Efficiency, Patient Centeredness

Does the work incorporate equity?

When implementing virtual urgent care (VUC), we took the extra step to credential and roster our vendor's providers through our MSO, so our patients could access VUC at the same cost as a primary care visit. While this process takes a longer amount of time (and is still underway), we all agreed that it was important to allow all of our patients to access VUC regardless of their ability to pay.

Does this work address any of the UChicago Medicine quality priorities as listed on the Clinical Excellence Scorecard?

Ambulatory Access to Care, Patient Experience

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