Objectives

The committee meets on a regular basis to accomplish the following: 
1. Examine patient cases with suboptimal parameters in order to find opportunities in quality improvement, system improvement, and provider education.
2. Review cases of hospitalized patients who develop morbidity or mortality while at Baystate, and further determine if proper Standards of Care were met.

Faculty

Christine Bryson DO, SFHM, FACP
Medical Director, Teaching Services Hospital Medicine Program 
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Co – Director, Advanced Practitioner Residency Program, Hospital Medicine Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate

Baystate Medical Center
759 Chestnut Street
Springfield, MA 01199
Office: (413) 794-4320
Fax: (413) 794-1767

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Physician
Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.  Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.