Clincal/Quality Committee
Attendance: Jackie Feldman, Wes Sowers, Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, Steve Jewell, Walter Rush
TOPIC 1:
Workforce Development: given the interest generated to this issue, the committee agreed to pursue the development of a Took Kit for Medical Directors, which would include topics including: job descriptions, negotiating a “good” job, assessment/defining a “quality” workplace (recovery oriented services, flexibility, support, collegiality, turnover), administrative nuts and bolts, linking with the National Council curriculum/training package for medical directors, use of the PACT manual, literature (Ron Diamond, Len Stein, Nordsy, Bob Drake, General Organization Index), and revised/updated relevant AACP Products.
ACTION:
Jackie Feldman will take the lead on this project and will start to pull together materials, survey the membership, apply for a grant from pharma/APF.
A parallel process would be the development of a toolkit-guideline for agency (eg, how to create a positive workplace that can recruit and retain quality psychiatrists).
TOPIC 2:
Pull together the prior work by Moltz and Pollack and update and hone; offer said guidelines that reflect community psychiatry understanding of boundaries, especially, vis-à-vis recovery oriented services.
ACTION:
Steve Jewel, David Pollack, David Moltz, Charles Huffine, Wes Sowers will move on this project. David Pollack will forward relevant materials to Steve.
TOPIC 3:
Increasing AACP Visibility to Psychiatrists
ACTION:
TOPIC 4:
List Serve Posted Topic: Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia is going to post a topic on list serve to assess quality of servies for LGBTQ populations.