MEDs (Medical Excellence Driven) 

While well-resourced and possessing some of the best doctors, hospitals, medical schools and industrial capabilities in the world, South Carolina’s medical care environment has become unbalanced with patient well-being no longer as its priority.

So why are people so frustrated? It's because South Carolina has a Medical Care Crisis -- not a healthcare crisis.

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That's where Integral Leaders in Health’s MEDs (Medical Excellence Driven) Designation comes into play. This is an effective, reproducible, and scalable plan to fix the medical care crisis.

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The MEDs Designation aspires to achieve six chief objectives:

·         Brings general and academic awareness to the situation. 

·         Mitigates clinical burnout of caregivers.

·         Overhaul communications.

·         Help identify dedicated resources to fund the process.

·         Educate caregivers on how to deliver medical care.

·         Engage the medical industrial complex as partners, not vendors.

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As part of the MEDs Designation process, a Care Environment Self-Study Task Force (CESTF) is formed with representation from all stakeholder groups to include patients. 

 

That task force, then, oversees a prescribed process reviewing five Standards:

·         Community Integration

·         Caregiver Integration

·         Hospital Integration

·         Payor Integration

·         University/Innovation Integration

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They are assessed using 40 Elements: approximately eight Elements per Standard. If all Standards and Elements are met, the result will be enhanced patient well-being and special recognition, the Integral Leaders in Health MEDs Designation.