Optimizing Patient Care: Harnessing the Power of Physician–Nurse Practitioner Teams in Primary Care

The focus of this quality improvement project was to implement a team-based care model with a team including three physicians and one nurse practitioner (NP). The project included implementation of a team-based care model by utilizing a standardized NP schedule template and a team-based schedule workflow with the goal to improve quality of chronic care management; increase annual wellness visits and total number of patients seen; and increase effective NP utilization in an ambulatory care setting. The team-based care model implementation was associated with a statistically significant increase in the number of annual wellness visits completed (p < .001).