Michael Cratty, MD, PhD,SFHM, FACP
Mars,PA
Summary
Respected physician practicing for 20 years in internal medicine as a hospitalist with additional clinical experience in emergency medicine, outpatient internal medicine and pediatrics. Accomplished Chief Medical Officer overseeing a 3-hospital health system for 8 years. A track record of spearheading quality and utilization management initiatives across the patient care continuum incorporating a very successful CIN/ACO focused on high quality, cost effective, value-based care. Abreast of emerging models in healthcare to deliver the right care in the right place at the right time.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Medical Officer
Heritage Valley Health System
01.2016 - Current
$500 million integrated non-profit health care delivery network with 3 hospitals, Heritage Valley Beaver (285 beds), Heritage Valley Sewickley (145 beds) and Heritage Valley Kennedy (65 beds) located near Pittsburgh, PA.
· Leader of 750-member medical staff with in-depth knowledge of medical staff organization and structure, medical credentialing and privileging.
· Development of new professional practice evaluation process for medical staff with review of 200 cases/year and monthly root cause analysis meetings.
· Optimization of Utilization Management through initiatives to decrease inpatient length of stay (LOS) to 3.7 days in present fiscal year and observation LOS to 1.1-1.2 days in last 2 fiscal years while maintaining readmission O/E < 1.
· Decreased observation admissions from 35% (9,880 patients) of acute admissions in FY19 to 28-31% the last 4 fiscal years.
· Creation of an Emergency Department (ED) U-turn program to divert patients to appropriate care setting. Directed 600 patients to extended care sites in FY23 with an additional 450 patients discharged to home with supportive services.
· Development of a medical emergency team which saw a 37% decrease in cardiac arrests in a large academic center.
· Lead efforts in quality and patient safety, with initiation of a new Mortality Review Committee, several multi-disciplinary health system disease specific committees (CHF, VTE and pneumonia/COPD) and opioid use disorder state quality initiative.
· Innovative efforts with specialty specific telemedicine expansion including launching telehealth-based antibiotic stewardship program leading to a decrease in broad spectrum antibiotics by 24% and a projected savings of $124,000.
· Active role in Clinical Integration Network, Accountable Care Organization and for 110,000 covered lives to drive high quality, low costs care across continuum.
· Managed selection, negotiation of pricing and fees slashing costs by 50% for new pharmacy cabinets and inventory manager. Management of 4-million-dollar project.
· Serve as Designated Institutional Officer for Family Medicine and Podiatry residencies and representative leading expansion of medical student education as designated institution for medical schools.
· Enterprise in financial management and budgeting multiple cost centers.
Director of Hospitalist Services and Hospital Care Management
Heritage Valley Health System
01.2013 - 01.2016
Medical Director- Hospitalist program
Heritage Valley Beaver
01.2010 - 01.2013
Associate Director/Director of Hospitalist Service and Head
Section of Hospital Medicine- West Penn-Allegheny Health System
01.2003 - 01.2010
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
01.2003 - 01.2010
Pediatric Hospitalist
West Penn-Allegheny Health System
01.2002 - 01.2005
Hospitalist
West Penn-Allegheny Health System
01.2002 - 01.2003
Associate staff member
Fulton County Medical Center
McConnellsburg , PA
01.2001 - 01.2002
Resident / Medical staff member
Holy Spirit Health System
Camp Hill , PA
01.2001 - 01.2002
Education
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency -
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) -
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Doctorate of Philosophy – Pharmacology and Toxicology (Ph.D.) -
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Bachelors of Science- Biology (B.S.) -
Pennsylvania State University
Skills
- Medical Staff Affairs
- Hospital Medicine
- Quality and Patient Safety
- Population Health
- Utilization Management
- Data Analysis
- Financial Management
- Conflict Resolution
Board Membership
- Board Member Heritage Valley Insurance Company, LTD.
- Board Member Heritage Valley Healthcare Network Board of Managers
- Accountability Care Organization and Clinical Integration Network
- Board Member, UPMC/Heritage Valley Cancer Center Board
- Board Member, UPMC/Heritage Radiation Oncology Board
- Board Member, Clinical Connect, Health Information Exchange Board
- Board Member, Heritage Valley Neurology Joint Venture Board
Professional Affiliations and Appointments
- American College of Physicians, Fellow
- Society of Hospital Medicine, Senior Fellow
- Society of Hospital Medicine- Practice Management Committee
- Society of Hospital Medicine-National Quality and Safety Committee
- Chairman Sub-committee- High Value Care
- Society of Hospital Medicine-Pittsburgh Chapter-President
- Society of Hospital Medicine-Performance and Standards Committee
Board Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics-Maintenance of Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine- Inpatient Maintenance of Certification
Medical Licensure
- Pennsylvania, MD-071954-L
- Florida, ME-150359
Committee Appointments
- Heritage Valley Health System, Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics Committee, 2013, 2018
- Heritage Valley Health System, Utilization Management Subcommittee of Quality Committee, 2013, 2017
- UPMC Health Plan, Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics Committee, 2019, Present
- Highmark Health Plan, Care Management Committee, 2019, Present
Honors and Awards
- Healthcare Think Tank Speaker- Future of Healthcare- Panel Member, New York 2022
- Best Doctors in America 2009-2020
- Best Doctors-Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine- Pittsburgh Magazine 2012-2020
- Young Investigator Award Mentored research- Resident 2007
- American Heart Association, Allegheny General Hospital
- Outstanding 4th year resident, Department of Pediatrics 2002
- Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Publications
- Impact of a Telehealth-based Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in a Community Hospital Health System, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 71, 3, 539-545, 2020, Shively NR, Moffa MS, Paul KT, Wodusky EJ, Schipani BA, Cuccaro SL, Harmanos MS, Cratty MS, Chamovitz BN, Walsh, TL
- Fluvastatin-induced rhabdomyolysis, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 36, 12, 1870-1874, 2002, Modi JR, Cratty MS
- N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-mediated corticotropin-releasing-factor (CRF) release in cultured rat amygdala neurons, Peptides, 20, 93-100, 1999, Cratty MS, Birkle DL
- Prenatal stress increases corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) content and release in rat amygdala minces, Brain Research, 675, 297-302, 1994, Cratty MS, Ward HE, Johnson EA, Azzaro AJ, Birkle DL
- Primary neuronal cultures of fetal rat amygdala exhibit depolarization-induced release of corticotropin-releasing factor, Neuropeptides, 26, 113-121, 1993, Cratty MS, Birkle DL
Timeline
Chief Medical Officer
Heritage Valley Health System
01.2016 - Current
Director of Hospitalist Services and Hospital Care Management
Heritage Valley Health System
01.2013 - 01.2016
Medical Director- Hospitalist program
Heritage Valley Beaver
01.2010 - 01.2013
Associate Director/Director of Hospitalist Service and Head
Section of Hospital Medicine- West Penn-Allegheny Health System
01.2003 - 01.2010
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine
01.2003 - 01.2010
Pediatric Hospitalist
West Penn-Allegheny Health System
01.2002 - 01.2005
Hospitalist
West Penn-Allegheny Health System
01.2002 - 01.2003
Associate staff member
Fulton County Medical Center
01.2001 - 01.2002
Resident / Medical staff member
Holy Spirit Health System
01.2001 - 01.2002
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency -
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) -
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Doctorate of Philosophy – Pharmacology and Toxicology (Ph.D.) -
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Bachelors of Science- Biology (B.S.) -
Pennsylvania State University
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