Project Manager, QI Programs
517-432-9828
Lynette.Biery@hc.msu.edu

H. Lynette Biery, P.A.-C, Project Manager, for the MSU Institute for Health Care Studies. Ms. Biery received her Bachelor of Science in Medicine from Western Michigan University and is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. Lynette’s clinical work has primarily been in the Department of Family Practice at Michigan State University. She has experience in rural family practice, urgent care and occupational medicine. Ms. Biery’s background in quality improvement includes assisting in the development and coordination of quality improvement projects in the Department of Family Practice. She completed a yearlong MSU sponsored leadership fellowship that developed leadership and continuous quality improvement skills.

Currently, Lynette is the Project Manager and Co-Investigator of the “Michigan Families Medicaid Project” (MFMP). Through an Administrative Match Agreement with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Institute for Health Care Studies collaborated with the Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center and the Kent County Health Department to create the “Michigan Families Medicaid Project.” The primary purpose of MFMP is to determine if the MSS/ISS program is reaching the highest risk women, having an impact on health outcomes, at what cost, and use these findings to make recommendations that will assist MDCH in the development of a new system of care for Medicaid women and infants.

In 2001, Ms. Biery’s primary assignment with IHCS was Project Manager for Maternal Child Health (MCH) Programs. In 2001, Lynette facilitated a Maternal Support Services/Infant Support Services (MSS/ISS) quality improvement work group involving fourteen of the nineteen Medicaid managed care plans. The group's greatest success was the development of a protocol to partner with WIC to increase MSS/ISS service delivery. Currently, the MCH program has been broadened to include Medicaid well child visits. Seventeen of the nineteen Medicaid health plans are planning to endorse a toolkit that includes a standard health maintenance exam form. IHCS will be conducting focus groups and surveys to learn about practitioners' and beneficiaries' beliefs and attitudes regarding well child services and to identify barriers to service delivery. Other initiatives include applying population management strategies to well care, member education, and office process improvement.

Lynette’s work at the Institute also includes development and implementation of a project to improve compliance with NIH/NHLBI asthma care guidelines and to improve the delivery of patient education. This includes the development of clinically relevant notebooks that summarize the guidelines, tools that simplify implementation of the guidelines, copy ready education materials, and a patient care action plan. Ms. Biery piloted an Asthma Education Project, which provided clinicians and nursing/office staff with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to optimally educate patients on the use of inhalation devices and peak flow meters.