This initiative aims to provide healthcare professionals with education and tools to increase pneumococcal and influenza vaccination rates, thereby reducing the risk of outbreaks, serious illness, hospitalization, and death, as well as reducing direct medical costs of adult patients seen within Cleveland Clinic and the Physician Community Partnership Quality Alliance employee and affiliated primary care practices.
Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) is a structured, long-term process by which a physician or group of physicians learn about specific performance measures, assess their practice using selected measures, implement interventions to improve their practice, and then reassess their practice after an interval of time.
PI CME has been recognized as an important component of continuing professional development and may answer multiple credentialing and reporting needs. Physicians can earn 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for completion of each stage of a PI CME activity, or a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for completion of all three stages.
Chief Medical Officer
Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership and the Quality Alliance
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Vice Chair, Department of Infectious Disease
Executive Director, Physician Health
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education, the Physician Community Partnership Quality Alliance, and the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning staff members and others involved with the planning, development, and review of the content for this activity have no relevant affiliations or financial relationships to disclose.
Pneumonia, a vaccine-preventable disease, remains a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality, yet approximately one-third of adults aged 65 years and older have not received the pneumococcal vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccination coverage is also suboptimal in older adults. Data indicate that pneumococcal and influenza vaccination rates in another high-risk group, adults with an immunocompromising or chronic condition, also fall short of national goals. This initiative aims to provide healthcare professionals with education and tools to increase pneumococcal and influenza vaccination rates, thereby reducing the risk of outbreaks, serious illness, hospitalization, and death, as well as reducing direct medical costs of adults and high-risk patients seen in Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership Quality Alliance employee and affiliated primary care practices.
This activity is designed for physicians and other healthcare providers of the Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership Quality Alliance.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education, the Physician Community Partnership Quality Alliance, and the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning acknowledge an educational grant for support of this activity from: Pfizer, Inc.
This activity is sponsored by Cleveland Clinic Community Physician Partnership Quality Alliance, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education, and the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education and the Physician Community Partnership Quality Alliance. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this performance improvement activity for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity fulfills program requirements for ABFM and ABIM MOC Part IV credit through the Cleveland Clinics Portfolio program.
If you have questions about this initiative or need assistance with the online portal, please contact:
Vanessa Senatore
Associate Program Director, ACHL
Phone: 773-714-0705 x189
Email: vsenatore@achlcme.org
T Nadas
Project Manager, Clinical Integration, Cleveland Clinic
Phone: 216-445-5564
Email: NADAST@ccf.org
Molly Mooney
Accreditation Manager, Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education, Cleveland
Clinic
Phone: 216-444-0459
Email: mooneym2@ccf.org