The Community-wide Clinical Guidelines Initiative is a collaborative project of the Monroe County Medical Society (MCMS).
The goal of the Initiative is to help enhance the quality and value of local health care by providing physicians, other healh care professsionals and patients/consumers with information and tools that reinforce evidence based health care.
The aims of the Initiative are to:
- gather clinical guidelines and provide access to important changes in national guidelines
- develop and disseminate provider tools (chart documentation forms/checklists, clinical algorithms) and consumer resources (in English as well as Spanish) and
- help facilitate local interventions
all of which underscore evidence based health care.
The Initiative is overseen by a Steering Committee comprised of medical and nursing leadership from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield; Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association; Monroe County Health Department; MCMS; The Monroe Plan; MVP, Inc.; Rochester General Health System; Rochester Individual Practice Association; Thompson Health; University of Rochester Medical Center/Strong Health; Unity Health. Jack McIntyre, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Past President, American Psychiatric Association and Rochester Academy of Medicine, member of the AMA's Council on Medical Service and Board member of the MCMS, chairs the Initiative.
Guidelines currently on this website are ones developed by the Initiative, member organizations and community partners as well national organizations.
We are constantly updating and adding tools to this website; visit us frequently.
Steering Committee