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Contest entry: Go green and improve patient safety
Jenna Duch, medical staff coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, submitted a suggestion to the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium contest that we wanted to share because it will help save the environment. Duch puts all of the medical staff orientation materials onto a USB key rather than stuffing several trees’ worth of paper into cumbersome binders. She includes hyperlinks on the agenda page to guide medical staff members through all of the documents and help them find specific information.
“Now, we don’t have to print binders with copies of all the material included, such as bylaws, rules, regs, staff roster, etc. Think of the money and time we save by simply dropping electronic files on a drive instead of printing binder after binder. And the new provider gets a free USB key to use whenever and for whatever. So far, we like how this is going,” Duch writes.
Duch adds that the medical staff puts patient safety first by requiring new providers to participate in a safety-focused medical staff orientation within the first year of their appointment. They cannot reapply if they do not attend. “We want to ensure that our patients are treated the best, so setting the bar high from the beginning is what we hope to do.”
Thanks for the suggestion Jenna! Keep those entries coming!
To learn more about how you can win two free seats to the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium, click here.
Contest winner: Physician reappointment tools
Thank you to all the readers for their great work and entries submitted for the August giveaway for two free seats at the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium (November 8-9, Naples, Fl).
July’s giveaway went to Nancy Bertling, RN, MBA, quality manager of TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital in Houston, TX for submitting a physician report card for quality and re-credentialing.
This time, August’s giveaway goes to Lana Heavilin, RN, a medical staff office coordinator in the quality department of Holland Hospital, in MI. Lana submitted tools for physician reappointment. She writes:
“We were finding when a physician came up for reappointment, and he had procedures with number [of] requirements to maintain to privilege, he/she might be surprised to find they didn’t meet the numbers, and has not time to rectify the problem.
So, every six months I run a report out of our software program (Midas) and give each provider a report of the privileges they have requested, the number needed to maintain the privilege and the actual number they have done. This way there are no surprises at reappointment time!”
You can download the following tools:
- Volume requirements worksheet (Word doc.)
- Letter for volume report (Word doc.)
- Sample report for cardiology (PDF)
Congrats to Lana!
For all other readers, you can still submit your entry of your best practice, tip, or tool to improve medical staff office tasks, improves return on investment, or raises the quality of care. Keep those entries coming! Find more details here.
Contest winner: Physician report card tool
Source: TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital, Houston, TX.
Congratulations to Nancy Bertling, RN, MBA, quality manager of TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital in Houston, TX! Nancy is the July winner for the Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium giveaway for two free seats at the Nov. 8-9 seminar in Naples, Fl.
Nancy submitted a report card for quality and re-credentialing that keeps track of physician activity. This tool is also used in dashboards for quality and peer review.
You can download the physician report card here. Thanks for sharing, Nancy!
To all the readers, you can still submit your entry for next month’s contest. Find details here. Keep those entries coming, and good luck!