Getting credit for great work: Helping physicians improve documentation

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 3:31 p.m.

If quality outcomes for length of stay, readmissions and other measures are higher than industry norms, is it a question of poor clinical care? When Dr. Gene Christian, CMO for St. Mary’s Hospital, Bon Secours discovered that physicians weren’t documenting completely and accurately in the medical record, he became a disciple of clinical documentation improvement.