The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University announced that the ImproveCareNow Network is the winner of the 2016 Drucker Prize. Our division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition has an ImproveCareNow team. Traci Jester, M.D., RD, is the physician leader with her partner Jeanine Maclin, M.D. Their focus is on quality care and improvement efforts for our pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients and to participate in research through ImproveCareNow. The Drucker Prize, considered by some the Nobel Prize of management, is awarded annually to one non-profit organization that meets Drucker’s definition of innovation: “change that creates a new dimension of performance.” ImproveCareNow was selected for this award from among 495 applicants and will receive a $100,000 prize and well-deserved recognition.
ImproveCareNow is a network of care centers with clinicians, researchers, patients, families and improvers working together to transform the health, care and cost for children and youth with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Currently, there are 92 centers, with 790 pediatric gastroenterologists and 26,000 patients with IBD, in ImproveCareNow.