The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME)

Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME) is a non-profit health care quality consultancy and QIO-like Entity certified by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) founded by physicians in 1983. Headquartered in North Carolina’s Research Triangle, we offer an array of quality improvement, clinical review, audit, technical, and consulting services and solutions to improve care delivery, system performance, and patient outcomes.

Mission:
They help people by improving the quality of health care.

CCME Corporate Values:
At CCME, we believe that to transform health care, we must continuously aspire to be the best in everything we do. To achieve this goal, they remain dedicated to upholding their corporate values:
• Excellence – They aspire to be the best in everything they do; good is not enough. They recruit and retain the most competent people who are committed to a culture of excellence and continuous quality improvement.
• Learning Organization – They are a learning organization and value knowledge; developing, capturing, applying and managing knowledge is their most important work. Skilled, experienced, and knowledgeable employees are their most valuable asset.
• Innovation – They create value for our customers and partners by combining clinical expertise and applied technology to promote health care excellence. They embrace and approach change as an opportunity for improvement.
• Teamwork/Collaboration – Each of us succeeds individually when we as a corporate team achieve success. They work in collaboration with each other and their partners to improve health care.
• Can Do – They expect all employees to demonstrate individual leadership through a positive approach to every task, a “can do” attitude, and a restless determination to continually improve as part of their quality improvement culture.
• Trust/Integrity – They practice the highest ethical standards in all that they do. They build trust by honoring their commitments. In order to earn and maintain trust and demonstrate their integrity, they must be good citizens both corporately and individually.
• Altruism – As a nonprofit company, our greatest obligation is to be of service and to promote the public good. Their ability to meet these obligations depends on maintaining a sound financial position.