Christina
Cipolle,
PharmD
Director of Quality and Interprofessional Education
Community University Health Care Center (CUHCC)
Christina Cipolle, PharmD is the Director of Quality and Interprofessional Education at Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC). Dr. Cipolle graduated from the University of Minnesota. In her current position at CUHCC, Dr. Cipolle is responsible for the quality program, education and training of interprofessional learners. She was the site coordinator and preceptor for the Ambulatory Care Residency Program, and awarded the 2015 UofM PGY1 Residency Preceptor of the Year award. Dr. Cipolle's passion is working with underserved populations, understanding patient’s unique medication experience, and patients’ drug-related needs.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
There is an untapped capacity in community health centers for achieving high-functioning team-based care. Furthermore, there is a need to provide rapid assessment of how well teams operate in a busy health care environment. To this call of action, a leadership team at Community University Health Care Center (CUHCC) located in South Minneapolis sought to implement the Assessment of Collaborative Environments (ACE-15), a validated survey tool developed by Tilden (2016) to provide rapid assessment of team functioning.
CUHCC strives to lead in team-based care and recently launched five…