Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina (USC) have been chosen to take part in an innovative national learning collaborative with eight other institutions across the country.
The three- year initiative, Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign (PACER), will focus on bringing faculty from various disciplines together to build relationships and learn from one another as they develop and implement team-based models of care.
Faculty teams chosen to participate in PACER demonstrated an ability to embrace change and work in concert, and had already begun to redesign their training programs.
The initiative was created to address the challenges of producing a well-trained primary care workforce as the health care system moves toward the formation of high performing patient-centered medical homes in order to provide more comprehensive and better coordinated care. “Patient-centered medical homes will be the future of primary care,” said Les Hall, M.D., executive dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Prisma Health-USC Medical Group. “Our faculty members are uniquely qualified to help lead the way in this effort. We are very pleased to work with the PACER program.”
PACER is funded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation with matching funding from the Boards of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The project is implemented and evaluated by educational researchers in the department of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.
