Background
LifeBridge Physician Network (LBPN) has been formed as a voluntary, physician-governed association of all care providers in any way credentialed in the LBH system. We are an organization of clinicians listening to the needs of our patients and the input of our fellow providers, and designing a better, more integrated, more communicative care system.
We seek to better organize clinicians to achieve the quality and ease of care they, their patients and their insurers desire and require. We plan to improve the care of our patients and the health of the populations we serve, while increasing the efficiency of services provided and decreasing the overall costs.
How Will We Do This?
- By putting patients first
- By being a community-based primary care provider and by recognizing the key role of primary care in coordinating care
- By eliciting the input of all clinicians in our network
- By partnering with LifeBridge Health (LBH) on decisions of quality improvement, clinical standards, care pathways and goals, and implementing them
- By collaborating with LBH on the design of all LBH clinical care systems
- By cementing a working relationship with our fellow LBH clinicians and LBH administration
- By promoting intra-referrals whenever possible
Structure
LBPN maintains its integrity through a series of actively managed compacts among its members, its leadership and with LBH. The LBPN board is elected by clinician membership and responsible for network management. The board is charged with forming subcommittees to assure appropriate clinician input and to maintain clear, ongoing communication with all members.
Aims for Clinician Members
- Improve care quality and coordination of care.
- Significantly increase patient satisfaction.
- Become the preferred referral and care sources for all patients.
- Craft a successful and professionally rewarding delivery system with fellow clinicians.
- Assure LBPN input in the design and care delivery within the LBH system.
LifeBridge Physician Network Values
- Keep our patients and our community at the center of all decisions
- Promote personal and collective accountability, transparency, professionalism, inclusiveness, visible fairness, partnership and respect
- Ensure that decisions are defensible through the use of data and evidence