BayCare Releases 2023 Physician Annual Report

BayCare Health System today released its 2023 Physician Annual Report. The report highlights the hard work and dedication of BayCare’s physicians and clinical teams, making it one of the nation’s best-performing health care systems and the largest not-for-profit health care system serving West Central Florida.   

BayCare’s continued commitment to excellence in health care and growth ensures that patients across West Central Florida have access to the care they need by attracting world-class doctors, implementing the newest medical interventions and providing exceptional care for the communities we serve. Roughly one in every three health care services in the region is performed through BayCare.   

BayCare’s North Star – clinical excellence – continues to shine alongside our renowned compassionate care. Among the notable milestones in 2023:

• The response rate to the Physician as Customer Survey reached 50%, providing valuable feedback to continue to improve our physician enterprise.  
• BayCare is outperforming the National Physician Benchmark Engagement and Alignment indicators, with a positive trend, even as the national benchmark declines.  
• Collaboration with our physicians helped all of BayCare’s eligible acute-care hospitals receive an “A” grade from Leapfrog, the patient safety group’s highest rating.  

The report also recognizes BayCare’s Physician Award Recipients, who demonstrated not only exceptional patient care, but also outstanding contributions to the community. Additionally, the 2023 participants of the BayCare Physician Leadership Institute are named. After completing a 10-month program, graduates further their leadership in driving clinical and operational excellence.  

BayCare also continued to expand its academic medicine and research programs, with plans to increase its residency positions to more than 650 by 2029, bringing top-notch physicians to this region. BayCare remained committed to guiding the next generation to ensure that the future of health care at BayCare remains strong. 

BayCare looks for new ways to improve quality and lower costs using new care models and technologies, and is continually recognized for our approach to quality, safety and experience.  

Download the 2023 Physician Annual Report here.