The main GLCMS office is located in Grosse Pointe Woods, in the Van Elslander Cancer Center on the campus of Ascension St. John Hospital. The other GLCMS locations are in Warren, MI, Macomb, MI, and Rochester Hills, MI.
Dr. Jerome Seid, Great Lakes MOQC Clinical Champion, also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Society of Hematology Oncology.
Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists is the longest established private practice specializing in Hematology and Medical Oncology in Southeast Michigan. The practice’s interdisciplinary team of 50 staff members, including 9 physicians, 4 nurses, and 4 advanced practice providers, sees approximately 2,300 new patients annually. The nursing staff are members of the Oncology Nursing Society who are specially trained in the administration of chemotherapy and its attendant effects.
Challenges that Great Lakes practice has faced are as follows: the interoperability of their two EHR systems (Flatiron and OncoEMR) and hindrances in collection and reporting of data. Participation in MOQC provides a non-threatening collegial forum in which to discuss such challenges, compare ideas, share best practices, and become educated.
Because practicing continuous self-evaluation can be challenging without a framework, the Great Lakes practice was on the ground floor when ASCO QOPI was launched in 2006. Under Dr. Jerome Seid’s leadership and oversight as MOQC Physician Champion, the Great Lakes team frequently communicates about quality improvement and quality of care. As a result, the Great Lakes practice has consistently demonstrated performance improvements on many MOQC quality metrics.
GLCMS physicians serve as faculty in the Ascension St. John Hematology Oncology Fellowship, a 3-year combined Hematology & Oncology Program which consists of 13 months of in-hospital clinical rotations, 11 months of elective/clinical rotations, and 12 months of basic or clinical research experience, continuity clinics, planned didactic conferences, and lectures. Hematology Oncology fellows see patients at 1-2 half-day clinics at GLCMS and attend inpatient continuity clinics at the Van Elslander Cancer Center.
Dr. Seid joined Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists in 2000 and has maintained an active role on the staff at St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Beaumont Grosse Pointe Hospital, and Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, where he currently serves as the medical director for oncology services. In addition to his practice duties, Dr. Seid has continued to teach medical students and residents and recently was appointed to the faculty at the new Oakland University, William Beaumont School of Medicine. Currently, as the Medical Director of the Henry Ford Hospice: Macomb Team, overseeing both the inpatient and outpatient activities, he continues to promote and teach the development of palliative care skills to students and staff. Participating in MOQC provides practices with a formal and regionally relevant method, with the additional benefit of collaboration with other practices, as well as value-based reimbursement based on performance. GLCMS aptly demonstrates that objective data can help guide the kinds of interdisciplinary changes needed to improve the quality of oncology care.
GLCMS physicians serve as faculty in the Ascension St. John Hematology Oncology Fellowship, a 3-year combined Hematology & Oncology Program which consists of 13 months of in-hospital clinical rotations, 11 months of elective/clinical rotations, and 12 months of basic or clinical research experience, continuity clinics, planned didactic conferences, and lectures. Hematology Oncology fellows see patients at 1-2 half-day clinics at GLCMS and attend inpatient continuity clinics at the Van Elslander Cancer Center.