Pneumonia Quality Measures
Physician board certification
A board-certified physician has completed an approved educational training program and an evaluation process including an examination designed to assess the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to provide quality patient care in that specialty. A specialty certificate is issued by a medical specialty certifying board, which is valid nationwide. Although certification is not required for an individual physician to practice medicine, most hospitals and managed care organizations require that at least a certain percentage of their staff are “board certified.” Today approximately 89 percent of licensed physicians are certified by one or more ABMS Member Boards (American Board of Medical Specialties).
St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center requires board certification for all physicians in the following medical specialties:
- Emergency Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Infectious Diseases
- Critical Care Medicine