{"id":6327,"date":"2019-03-11T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/?page_id=6327"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:26:49","slug":"strategic-advancement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/strategic-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\n\n    (function($) {\n        $(\"body, html\").addClass(\"heels_full_width_overflow\");\n    })(jQuery);\n\n   <\/script>\n   <div style=\"background-color:#6b7d8d;\" class=\"full-width-contained whitebackground \">\n<p class=\"strategic-fonts-header\">Purpose<\/p>\n<div class=\"row  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-sm-6 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<div class=\"strategic-fonts\">\n<p><a name=\"vision\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 1.75em;text-align: center;line-height: 1.0;width: 66%;margin: auto;color: #fff\">Our Vision:<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"font-size: 1.85rem;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 500;margin-bottom: 0;color: #fff;text-align: center\">To provide, teach, and advance patient- and family-centered emergency care within the nation\u2019s leading public school of medicine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-sm-6 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<div class=\"strategic-fonts\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 1.75em;text-align: center;line-height: 1.0;width: 66%;margin: auto;color: #fff\">Our Mission:<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"font-size: 1.85rem;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 500;margin-bottom: 0;color: #fff;text-align: center\">Our mission is to provide outstanding emergency care through excellence in clinical care, education, research, administrative stewardship, and strategic initiatives. Central to this mission is creating a welcoming environment for persons from all backgrounds, interests, and abilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"strategic-fonts\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 1.75em;text-align: center;line-height: 1.0;width: 66%;margin: auto;color: #fff\">Our Core Values<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\" style=\"font-size: 1.85rem;line-height: 1.5;font-weight: 500;margin-bottom: 0;color: #fff;text-align: center\">Collaboration &#8211; Innovation &#8211; Integrity &#8211; Service &#8211; Transparency<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><script>\n\n    (function($) {\n        $(\"body, html\").addClass(\"heels_full_width_overflow\");\n    })(jQuery);\n\n   <\/script>\n   <div style=\"background-color:#007fae;\" class=\"full-width-contained whitebackground \">\n<p class=\"strategic-fonts-header\">Strategic Pillars<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 1.75em;text-align: center;line-height: 1.0;width: 66%;margin: auto;color: #fff\">Our Goals:<\/p>\n<div class=\"strategic-fonts\">\n<h2><a style=\"color: #fff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/clinical-care\/\">Clinical<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Deliver excellent, state-of-the-art care chosen by patients in our community and state maximizing safety, value, and efficiency.<\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"color: #fff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/education\/\">Education<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Provide a foundational emergency medicine experience for all students, continue excellence in resident and fellow education, and cultivate system-wide clinical provider education to ensure state-of-the-art expertise.<\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"color: #fff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/research\/\">Research<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Advance emergency care through the generation and implementation of new knowledge.<\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"color: #fff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/about-us\/\">Administration<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Provide a supportive administrative environment to promote growth, maintain financial solvency, and inform decision-making. Create a fairly compensated, transparent, caring, and safe environment where we choose to invest our time, energy, and talents.<\/p>\n<h2><a style=\"color: #fff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"#value\">Strategic Initiative<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Explore, develop, and implement innovative acute care solutions for an evolving health care system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"strategic-fonts-header\" style=\"color: #4f4f4f!important\">Strategic Initiatives<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"value\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"section-header\">Value Based Care<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Value-based reimbursement structures (fee for value) are becoming commonplace as they provide incentives for health care providers to offer the best care at the lowest cost to patients. Value-based reimbursement has increased the number of services doctors and hospitals deliver while offering them in convenient, streamlined approaches. This change has had a positive effect on patient quality of care and overall satisfaction with healthcare systems while removing many common financial barriers. Therefore by improving our local healthcare financial systems, we can better address the needs of our community.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"inclusive\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"section-header\">Comprehensive Excellence in Patient Care<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">The patient population we serve here at the University of North Carolina is remarkably varied and we aim to serve and meet their needs by providing the very best in clinical care, education, and research.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"telemedicine\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"section-header\">Telemedicine<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">In the Spring of 2018, UNC Health Care introduced the virtual care service &#8220;UNC Urgent Care 24\/7&#8221; to provide faster, easier access to physicians via phone, tablet or computer. The program offers patients a solution to turn to when walk-in clinics are closed, curving emergency department visits for non-emergent cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis innovative virtual technology fits with our mission of providing care to all North Carolinians at any time. We expect that this service will increase access to affordable urgent care throughout our state, including rural areas. We firmly believe that the future of medical care has to include more telehealth options.\u201d &#8211; Dr. Bill Roper, Former CEO of UNC Health Care<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"geriatrics\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"section-header\">Geriatrics<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">In 2018 the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) launched an accreditation program to improve and standardize emergency care for older patients. With more than 60% of national hospital admissions for patients over 65 coming through the emergency department, accreditation can help hospitals focus on factors leading to fewer hospitalizations and more successful outcomes after discharge. At the end of 2018, UNC Hospital&#8217;s Hillsborough Campus became the first in North Carolina to receive Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA), earning a Level 2 \u201cSilver\u201d accreditation from the ACEP.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA healthcare system should signal to the community that we know how to care for older adults. We\u2019re thinking about the structure and the processes of care.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/directory\/kevin-biese\/\">Kevin Biese, MD, MAT<\/a>, Co-Director of UNC\u2019s Geriatric Emergency Medicine Service<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"global\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"section-header\">Global Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/emergmed\/education\/global-emergency-medicine\/\">UNC Global Emergency Medicine<\/a> is committed to the development of Emergency Medicine as a specialty in East Africa. The UNC Division of Global Health and Emergency Care is conducting important epidemiology, emergency department triage, and youth violence-related research in both Kenya and South Africa. Novel data from this research is helping to shape future research, policy, and educational initiatives in the East and Southern African region as it pertains to emergency care capacity-building.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategic Initiatives Value Based Care Comprehensive Excellence in Patient Care Telemedicine \u201cThis innovative virtual technology fits with our mission of providing care to all North Carolinians at any time. We expect that this service will increase access to affordable urgent care throughout our state, including rural areas. 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