Medical Center Hour with Peter Paige, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at UVA Health

Jessie Stewart Richardson Memorial Lecture in Patient Quality and Safety
Embracing the Healthcare Needs of our Communities

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 12:00-1:00 p.m.

The lecture will be focused on our mission, vision and values here at UVA Health as they relate to providing the best care for our communities. Now that we have a four-hospital system, our primary communities for service have expanded. How do we work to better meet the needs of these communities (and beyond) while trying to maintain care as close to home as possible? We will review some statistics describing our current state across the health system. This will include our transfer center which is responsible for transfers at our main campus and encompasses multiple other services (including bed management, medcom and discharge transportation services). As we continue to expand our services to respond to the demand in our communities, how do we prepare and strengthen our approach to handling these volumes? We’ll discuss initiatives currently underway in our Emergency Departments, our Operating Rooms and in Patient Progression as we help make a patient’s hospital stay as seamless as possible. We’ll also explore future opportunities in these areas. We will examine the future of the transfer processes as we launch a system transfer center to accommodate the needs of the health system. Lastly, we will discuss a strategy to develop a capacity command center—a model that has been deployed at numerous academic health systems across the country. More information can be found here.