News

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, a joint CQI venture, Mi-COVID19, formed under the leadership of Dr. Scott Flanders.

On January 17, 2021, Elizabeth McLaughlin, HMS Program Manager, was featured on WXYZ-TV Detroit Channel 7 News (5:32).

On December 21, 2020, Dr. Vineet Chopra appeared on the Today Show to discuss our recent research letter in Annals.

HMS held its November Collaborative Wide meeting on November 4, 2020, in a virtual format.

The Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety (HMS) Consortium partnered with the MHA Keystone Center to host a day-long virtual sepsis symposium on October 1, 2020.

HMS held its July Collaborative Wide meeting on July 29, 2020, in a virtual format.

HMS, in partnership with other Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Collaborative Quality Initiatives, has launched a COVID-19 specific data registry.

HMS/Mi-COVID19 Initiative won the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) Fast Track Best Practices Award. The Mi-COVID19 Initiative was nominated

On June 4, 2020, HMS Hospitalist and Antibiotic Stewardship Project Co-lead, Valerie Vaughn, was highlighted in a New York Times

HMS was awarded the 2020 Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement award. This award is presented

Larissa May, MD, MSPH, MSHS, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Emergency Department and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship at the University of California-Davis,

Arjun Srinivasan, MD (CAPT, USPHS) Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for

HMS held its March Collaborative Wide meeting on March 8, 2019. We introduced a new meeting structure covering a full

On January 28th, 2019, HMS launched its PICC Tier 2 toolkit. HMS member hospitals can access the toolkit through our new

HMS held its November Collaborative Wide meeting on November 13, 2018 at Eagle Eye Golf and Conference Center in Lansing.