Primary Care Collaborative Presents Primary Care Community Leadership/Research Award
One of three annual awards for excellence in the field
The Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) announced today the recipient one of its three annual awards for 2021. The awards recognize individuals and a practice in the primary care community that exemplify excellence in providing high-value primary care and shaping the policies that support such care. The award was presented during the PCC’s online working summit, being held Nov. 9 and 10.
“The PCC is very fortunate to be associated with these primary care champions,” said Ann Greiner, PCC’s President and CEO. “We congratulate this year’s honorees and thank them for their contributions to better patient outcomes, reduced health inequities and greater value during these challenging pandemic times.”
Primary Care Community Leadership/Research Award: Sue Bornstein, MD, FACP, Executive Director of the Texas Medical Home Initiative; Co-lead, Texas Primary Care Consortium
The PCC’s Primary Care Community Leadership/Research Award is presented to an outstanding individual who has demonstrated remarkable leadership and/or research to ensure that primary care is foundational to community or state healthcare-reform efforts.
Sue Bornstein, MD, FACP, is the Executive Director of the Texas Medical Home Initiative and Co-lead of the Texas Primary Care Consortium.
Prior to entering medical school, Dr. Bornstein graduated cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She received a Master of Arts in Studies in Aging her Doctor of Medicine from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.
Dr. Bornstein has received numerous awards from her peers including the Gold Headed Cane Award, Distinguished Alumna from the University of North Texas Center for Studies in Aging, and numerous outstanding teacher awards. In 2005, Dr. Bornstein became the first woman in Baylor University Medical Center’s 100-year-history to be elected president of the Medical Staff. In 2016, she received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Texas Tech School of Medicine. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians for 12 years and recently completed her tenure as Governor of the Texas Chapter Northern Region.
Dr. Bornstein brought the concept of the “Medical Home” to Texas a decade ago. In partnership with the Texas Health Institute, the Texas Medical Home Initiative (TMHI), which Dr. Bornstein leads, created the Texas Primary Care Consortium (TPCC), the only multisectoral network focused on primary care in Texas with a mission to advance equitable, comprehensive, and sustainable primary care for all Texans.
“Sue Bornstein has done such much to advance primary care in Texas,” said Ann Greiner, PCC’s President and CEO. “Through research, data, educational events and so much more, Sue has led the Texas Primary Care Consortium in outstanding ways to ensure that primary care is foundational to community and state healthcare reform efforts.”
