OSF Medical Group receives Governor’s Award of Excellence

The OSF St. Francis Hospital Medical Group clinics in Escanaba, Gladstone and Powers received the 2005 Governor’s Award of Excellence for efforts to enhance patient care. This prestigious award is given annually by the Michigan Peer Review Organization (MPRO). This is the fifth consecutive year the Escanaba and Gladstone clinics have received the award and the fourth consecutive year for the Powers clinic.

Award criterion focuses on improving preventive health care services and screenings and the management of chronic conditions, including coronary artery disease, diabetes, heart failure and cancer screening for breast and colon cancer. Preventive health care and early disease detection are instrumental in improved patient care and lower health care costs for Michigan residents. OSF Medical Group was honored for its efforts to improve services relating to diabetes care.

“It is an honor to once again receive this prestigious award as recognition of the tremendous dedication of our physicians and staff in providing safe, quality care for our patients,” said Mark Povich, D.O., medical director for the OSF St. Francis Hospital Medical Group. “By improving preventive care and increasing services, we are making a healthy impact on patients throughout the Upper Peninsula.”

OSF Medical Group features physicians and mid-level providers specializing in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatrics, pulmonology, hypertension and nephrology. Offices are located in Escanaba, Gladstone and Powers. For more information or a FREE physician directory, please call 906-786-5707, ext. 5500.