L T C 2012 Ride to Survive keeps getting bigger and better!

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June 28, 2013
Vol. 15, No. 12
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2012 Ride to Survive keeps getting bigger and better!
Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital held its 3rd
annual Ride to Survive to benefit the hospital’s Alan P. Lyss
Center for Cancer Care and Clinical Research. Over 150 bicyclists, runners and walkers chose their respective 30-mile,
15-mile, 8-mile or 5k routes.
Dr. Alan Lyss, who has ridden in the event the past two
years, was sidelined this year due to a recent bicycle mishap, but he did give a brief address.
“Since Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital opened
its first cancer center over 20 years ago, there are 18 percent
more survivors of cancer
then there was
June
then,” he said.
“That translates
National Aphasia Awareness Month
into 12 million
National Hernia Awareness Month
cancer survivors
Men’s Health Month
compared to 3
National Migraine Awareness Month
million survivors
Scleroderma Awareness Month
in the 1970’s.
You know those
June 20th Employee Forum can
numbers very
be viewed on the Grapevine!
well because as
you look around
CALENDAR
you see so many beneficiaries of the improvements in cancer
research and treatment among your friends and neighbors. It’s
wonderful to be associated with those improvements in cancer
outcomes.
“One figure you
may not be aware
of, but that I’m very
proud of, is that
sometime in late
2013 or early 2014,
the 100th resident of
Ste. Genevieve will
participate in a cancer
research study here.
That means 100
Nurse Practitioners Holly Huelskamp
people have gotten
and Mary Crecelius
access to the newest
and best treatments without having to travel long distances
to referral centers. Congratulations to you, congratulations to
these 90+ participants, and congratulations to visionaries like
Tom Keim, Rod Scherer, your hospital board president, and to
our head oncology nurse Sandy Schilli and her staff for everything they’ve done to bring state-of-the-art cancer care close to
home.”
(photos on page 4)
Ask Tom
Our housekeeping department
has been busy lately replacing the
old sanitizer dispensers. These
new and improved models with
a longer battery life are now
throughout the Bloomsdale
Medical Centre. During the next
month, housekeeping plans to
have all of SGCMH off-site and hospital in
the new dispensing systems. They will complete offsite prior to starting the hospital in hopes of not having
a lot of product waste. Great stewards of our resources--Kudos!
During this transition time, if you should need a “refill” please call the Housekeeping Dept. at 731 and request a refill. They have plenty of partially filled bottles
of soap and sanitizer bottles that have been removed
from dispensers that have been changed out.
If you find any old “spare” bottles, please turn them
in to housekeeping.
If you have any questions, please call Melinda @
#402.
DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT
the next
TRASH BASH is
Thursday, July 11
4:00 pm
Quality Improvement
SEMO AAA to partner with SGCMH
Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital (SGCMH) is
now partnering with Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging (SEMO AAA) to bring its Caring Transitions program to
Ste. Genevieve. This program helps encourage and provides
patients with tools to actively participate in their care and help
prevent readmission to the hospital.
Liz Yokley, outreach benefits counselor, for SEMO AAA, says
the program tries to fill in the gaps to help people in the community remain home.
“A person, age 60 or over, returning home from a hospital
stay can experience unexpected challenges,” she said. “ They
might find themselves back home struggling to manage their
medication, make follow-up doctor’s appointments, and getting
some in-home support. This could then result in a person needing to return to the hospital. Through this partnership we will
work together to help address access to community resources
and social concerns that can prevent these readmissions.”
Yokley said a lot of what she does through Caring Transitions is find resources for patients.
“Everyone is different, of course, but the main areas of concern that we look at are transportation, medication, making sure
the patient is getting proper nutrition, and has people around
who can assist with housekeeping.”
To be eligible for this program, patients must meet the following criteria: 60 years or older; Admitted to SGCMH; Does
not live in a skilled nursing facility; Are not on Hospice; Reside
within the county of Ste. Genevieve; Have documented in their
medical record at least one of the following diagnosis--heart
failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
diabetes mellitus, heart attack (AMI), or pneumonia (NEU).
Yokely will be at SGCMH every Thursday and will also do
home visits on this day for the Caring Transitions program. She
sees this collaboration with the hospital as a great fit.
“I think working together we can be a great team, and serve
the patients to meet their needs.”
The Quality Improvement (QI) department gets
to celebrate all the great things we do and gets
to investigate and help guide staff on the not
so good things as well. Quality Improvement
includes Corporate Compliance, HIPAA, Patient
Satisfaction, Event Reports and Risk Management. We monitor the effectiveness, safety and
quality of patient care. We collect, report, and
respond to event reports and customer and
employee feedback. We work with Press
Ganey to evaluate and report Patient Satisfaction results. We also work closely with our
Risk Management group: Healthcare Services
Group. Our goals for 2013 include responding
to concerns coming through our department in
a timely manner. We also plan to become the
safest hospital with the highest quality scores
in Southeast Missouri. Be watching for all the
great information we will start sharing and posting in your area soon. Our office is open Monday through Friday 8-5 and we always welcome
patients and employees.
Employees getting first look at M-Tech 6
By: Angie Flieg, RN – IS Clinical Analyst
By this time, many of you have read or heard
about M-Tech 6 (the NEW Meditech). While Judy
was in the process of writing the last TLC article, a
group of nurses from SGCMH attended a training
at Meditech in Boston to learn PCS (Patient Care &
Safety) Clinical Content. This group included Sheila
Warren, Debbie Raney, Loretta King (our Navin &
Haffty Clinical Consultant) and myself.
Clinical Content was primarily an in-depth overview of PCS, which is replacing the current Nursing
documentation module. We learned how to navigate within the module, how to access the patient
status board and how to access the dictionaries.
The dictionaries are where Sheila and I have been
constructing the current documentation for Meditech.
We use these dictionaries almost daily to create the
screens that patient care is documented on. These
screens are comprised of interventions, goals, and
care plans that are important when caring for acute
patients. They set the fashion in which the patient
will be cared for. They include everything from daily
assessments, provider orders, and times to provide
certain care, as well as discharge goals and plans.
PCS comprises all of the patient care from admission to discharge.
Three of the great things that we have found about
M-Tech 6.0 are:
1) Single Sign On: Users will no longer have to
remember a separate user name and password for
Meditech and Windows. 6.0 will use your windows
username! ----- WIN!
The old (Magic) Patient Status
The new (6.0) Patient Status Board
2) Stacked Windows: While documenting in 6.0 you
will find that each place you click, you will get a new
window open up. This means that you can actually
look at the patient’s vital signs, labs or history while
you are documenting. ---- WIN!
3) The screens are much clearer and not as busy:
---- WIN!
M-Tech 6 Quiz
Take this short M-Tech 6 Quiz and turn it into Marketing. Submissions with all correct answers will be
entered in a drawing for hospital logo items. The Marketing Department will draw for 10 items.
1. What is the Go LIVE date for the new Meditech?___________
2. Who does this project impact? ___________
3. The newer Meditech will have fewer clicks. ____________
4. The Meditech 6.0 is their latest, greatest system. _____________
5. We have not hired consultants to assist with the
Magic to 6.0 migration. ________
Name______________________________
Department__________________________
Dr. Matthew Bosner rode the 15-mile
route and his son completed the 30mile ride.
Friends board members Vickie
Winkler and Jodi Uding, APRN-BC,
tackled the 8-mile ride on a bicycle
built for two!
Vickie Wolk was our R & R Raffle winner! Thanks to our medical staff, this raffle
brought in close to $1400 for the Ride to Survive! When it’s all said and done, fundraisers,
riders/runners/walkers will have raised over
$12,000 to benefit cancer care and research
at SGCMH. Dozens of Ride to Survive photos can be seen on our Facebook page and
a You tube video of the event is available,
too. Go to our website and you’ll find a link.
Dr. Terri Monahan of Plaza Chiropractic showed her support
for our oncology department by donating nearly a dozen,
beautiful crocheted prayer shawls. This isn’t the first time she
has comforted patients with her craft. She regularly donates
shawls to be given to our cancer patients. Pictured (l-r) are
Jennifer Jones (Plaza Chiropractic staff member), Dr. Monihan, Sandy Schilli, RN, BSN, OCN (Director of the Alan P.
Lyss Center for Cancer Care and Clinical Reserch), and
Brenda Wirth (Plaza Chiropractic staff member).
Help name Hirshell’s baby
This momma
bird and her
chick have been
keeping Occ
Med entertained
the past month.
They’re perched
outside the Occ
Med window on
the scorching hot
roof--which apparently is where
they like it!
Hirshell Parker and his wife are expecting their third child, a
boy, later this summer. Their two sons are named
Brayden Pujols and Jaren Brennon Musial.He needs you to
help in choosing yet another Cardinals name for their next
child. Participate in our poll now through July 4th. Hirshell
said the Cardinal player whose name you choose must have
high moral standards and be a solid role model (at least at the
time of this poll). Choose a past or present Cardinals player.
If your choice of name is chosen, you will win two Cardinals
tickets (to a game yet to be determined). If more than one of
you pick the same name, your names will be put in a hat for a
drawing. Hirshell’s wife gets final say! In the event that none
of the names in our poll make the final cut, no tickets will be
awarded. Go to the Grapevine and take the poll.
Speaking of Cardinals fans, our auxiliary
is raffling off another Cardinals quilt. The
quilt is on display in the gift shop and
bids are taken there.
Stop by the lobby July 11 & 12 for the
Auxiliary’s Christmas in July Sale!
Items marked 30% off!