Advantage Health Physicians Receive Distinguished Award

For the third year in a row, physicians of Advantage Health Physicians, Saint Mary’s primary care physician network, have been honored with the distinguished Governor’s Award of Excellence for Improving Care in the Ambulatory Care Setting. 78 Advantage Health primary care and specialist physicians received the prestigious award.

The Governor’s Award of Excellence is an annual award program sponsored by MPRO, (Michigan Peer Review Organization), in cooperation with the Governor’s office, that recognizes primary care physician offices throughout Michigan for their work in the area of quality improvement and for improving the quality of care provided to their adult patients. Clinical areas of focus for quality improvement include preventive care, coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, heart failure or cancer screening.

“Advantage Health Physicians is committed to best practices and excellence in patient care,” said David Blair, M.D., Advantage Health Physicians President and Chief Medical Officer. “We are honored and extremely proud to be receiving this prestigious award for the third consecutive year. It exemplifies our commitment to excellence in patient care, and serves as a reminder that the health of our community is our top priority.”

MPRO is a recognized leader in health care quality improvement, utilization review, data analysis, research, clinical outreach and consumer education. The new 2005 award criteria incorporate the current national initiative to implement health information technology in the physician office setting.