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News Release
UPMC NORTHWEST STAFF DOCTOR EARNS CLINICAL QUALITY AWARD
UPMC Northwest staff physician Randy Kreider, MD, is a recipient of a Clinical Quality Achievement Award that UPMC’s Physician Services Division presents every year. The award recognizes Dr. Kreider, who practices at Clarion Family Practice-UPMC, for outstanding achievement during 2006 in providing care for patients with coronary artery disease. Dr. Kreider and several other physicians from UPMC’s Community Medicine Inc. (CMI) were honored during a celebration at the Monterey Bay restaurant in Pittsburgh. In addition to recognizing exemplary care for coronary artery disease, the celebration also paid tribute to CMI physicians who were the top providers in two other clinical quality initiatives, osteoporosis and colorectal cancer screening. As a Clinical Quality Achievement Award winner, Dr. Kreider is part of “a select group of physicians who have gone “above and beyond” in helping us to address clinical quality for our patients,” according to Francis X. Solano, Jr, MD, PSD vice president and medical director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation. Dr. Solano also cited Dr. Kreider’s “wonderful contributions to outstanding patient care in our quality initiatives.” This is Dr. Kreider’s second Clinical Quality Achievement Award. He was honored for exemplary care in a diabetes initiative in 2003. He also earned one of UPMC’s Awards for Commitment and Excellence in Service (ACES) in 2005. The ACES award recognizes physicians who are gifted caregivers, communicators, and problem-solvers; who tirelessly do their best for patients; and who bring out the best in their physician colleagues and staff members.
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