Most advisory councils meet monthly or quarterly, with meetings held in the early evening or on Saturday mornings. UW Health currently has active Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFAC) dedicated to each of the following topics:
American Family Children's Hospital
Behavioral Health
Cystic Fibrosis-Pediatric
Heart, Vascular and Thoracic
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Collaboration between UW Health and UnityPoint Health - Meriter)
Northeast Family Medical Center
Oncology
Primary Care
Transplant
UW Health (focusing on overall issues that affect all UW Health patients and families)
UW Health in northern Illinois (focusing on overall issues that affect UW Health patients and families in northern Illinois)
UW Health committees, quality councils and workgroups
Patient and Family Advisors (PFAs) also partner with staff by volunteering to represent the patient and family perspective on standing committees, quality councils, improvement projects, facility design teams, executive search committees and short-term workgroups. These groups usually meet once per month for 60 to 90 minutes and are comprised primarily of medical providers and staff who are working to set organizational priorities and/or improve processes and ways of delivering care. Examples include:
Breast Center Steering Committee
Dementia Workgroup
LGBTQ Task Force
Nursing Quality Council
Patient Safety and Quality Committee
Population Health Management Workgroup
Sustainability Committee