Meet PCP's accepting new patients on February 7th
Patients and their families are invited to come meet several NSMC primary care physicians who are accepting new patients. The event takes place on February 7, from 6 - 8 p.m., in the lobby of the Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care in Danvers. RSVP requested.

Learn more Patient Centered Medical Home
North Shore Physicians Group (NSPG) is leading the way to create a more efficient healthcare system with the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) care delivery model. This new model, which will be introduced to all NSPG practices over the next 18 months, will enable patients to work closely with a PCP and clinical care team to receive the most comprehensive care available.

Learn more Shared Medical Appointments
North Shore Physicians Group's newest innovative new healthcare delivery model is the Shared Medical Appointment. These 90-minute appointments are conducted in a group setting with a physician, multidisciplinary team and other patients. In this setting patients can learn from one another and ask questions while feeling connected and supported.

Learn more NSPG adds Sports Medicine specialty
North Shore Physicians Group is proud to announce that we have added sports medicine to our list of clinical specialties. Our board certified sports medicine physician, Navid Mahooti, MD, MPH, is specially trained to treat sports-related medical problems and non-surgical orthopedic problems. He also specializes in family medicine.

Learn more NSPG streamlines the prescription refill process
"Prescription refills are a huge challenge for all primary care practices," says Lindsay Gainer, R.N., M.S.N., Clinical Best Practice Program Manager at North Shore Physicians Group. "We were missing a lot of opportunities to refill prescriptions in real-time when patients were in the office. And we knew we could make significant improvements."

Find out how we streamlined. New Saugus location!
Our new Saugus location is now open. It has spacious, open offices, free parking, new equipment and on-site blood testing.

Our staff has also expanded. Tejal Patel, M.D. and Vidya Raju, M.D join Christine Valdes, M.D. and Natasha Shah, M.D., along with nurse practitioner, Susan Hayes, M.S.N., N.P.

For more information or to call, go here. NSPG's Ernesto Da Silva, MD, named community care physician of the year
NSMC physician, Ernesto Da Silva, M.D., was recently named Community Primary Care Physician of the Year by Partners HealthCare at the Second Annual Primary Care Recognition Dinner on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Dr. Da Silva, who practices Internal Medicine at North Shore Physicians Group's 496 Lynnfield Street office in Lynn, was recognized by his colleagues for excellence in clinical care and was acknowledged as a superior clinician and excellent diagnostician.

Read more about Dr. Da Silva's award here. North Shore Medical Center, an affiliate of NSPG, honored with three major awards
North Shore Medical Center, an affiliate of North Shore Physician Group, has been recognized for providing exceptional health care quality and value. NSMC was chosen by Thomson Reuters as one of 100 Top Hospitals® for cardiovascular care, and the American College of Surgeons also honored NSMC for being one of 25 hospitals in the United States that have achieved exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care. Finally, NSMC Union Hospital recently received the Leapfrog Top Hospital Award (only 45 hospitals selected nationwide).

To read more about each of these three awards, go here. Dr. Shant Parseghian, Endocrinologist, extends Salem practice Happier physicians, satisfied patients: physician recruitment strategy pays off
Massachusetts and the nation as a whole are facing a shortage of primary care physicians. North Shore Physicians Group (NSPG) – a multi-site primary and specialty-care practice -- has successfully recruited 23 Primary Care and Family Medicine physicians in the past two years. Read more (PDF)

Several NSPG physicians have also received a 95% customer satisfaction rating from their patients. Surveys conducted by the American Medical Group Association showed that several NSPG physicians were given very high scores in the areas of excellence of care and likelihood of recommending this physician to friends and family.

Proven excellence in Patient Safety and Quality of Care
CRICO, a leader in evidence-based risk management, announced that North Shore Physicians Group was a "Top Scorer" in the 2006 and 2007 "Medical Practice Evaluation" Audit in Patient Safety and Quality of Care.

CRICO acknowledged NSPG for developing and implementing key office process and clinical systems in the management and tracking of chronic disease management. As a result of our excellent record in disease management, NSPG staff members were asked to share our quality initiatives in diabetes management at the 2007 CRICO conference.