EPM Core Group Minutes

Here is a link to the EPM Core Team minutes from today.

EPM Core Group Meeting

This is a reminder that there is an EPM Core Group meeting tomorrow morning at 8am in the dental conference room. Please bring your training binders as well as your course list so that we can all share how far we have progressed in the training. See you there!

Employee of the Year

Voting for employee of the year for 2007 will take place during the all staff meeting on Friday February 8th. The nominees are each monthly winner from 2007. Previous winners were Hans Dethlefs 2005 and Carmen Alcazar 2006. Vote early and vote often!

January Sharon Herrera WIC Clerk
February Regina Fruge Social Work
March Kelly Hammett Patient Support
April Maria Cortes Health Assistant Supervisor
May Amber VanKirk Nurse
June Susana Urbano Nurse
July Grace Sourile WIC Dietitian
August Leah Jorgensen Provider
September Alicia Lagunas Patient Support
October Sam Portillo Health Assistant
November Claudia Rios Patient Support
December Sara Cervantes Cabriales Front Desk

Staff Retreat this Thursday

There will be an all staff retreat this Thursday in the Brandeis ballroom. Breaksfast will be served at 7:30am. Please get there no later than 7:45 so that we can get started on time. We will all stay in the ballroom for various fun activities until 9:30am when the providers will depart for Plattsmouth. Everyone else will stay here for more fun activities until 11am when the nurses will go to Plattsmouth to join up with the providers.
All of us left here will then have an old school pot luck in the lunch room and conference room downstairs. Don't try to bring a 6-pack of diet coke or $5 to this party. I am hungry for some good home cooking. Break out your best family recipe and we will see you there.

*Here are some pictures from the 2006 Harvest Potluck

Suzie's Dog

Suzie's dog Chewy is a 2 1/2 y.o pomeranian, he likes to go out in the snow and make snow angels. He is currently single and looking for girlfriend. Send offers to findadateforchewy@suzieshouse.com.

E-learning web site

For those of you on the core teams who are working on your e-learning and are having trouble remembering the web site link you can click here to log on.

EHR Core Group Announced

As I mentioned in a previous post, the EHR Project will have two core implementation teams. There will be a team for the Practice Management part of the program and a team for the Health Record part of the program.

I am happy to announce the members of the EHR (Electronic Health Record) Core Team. Please do not read anything into any specific person's inclusion on this team or exclusion from this team. This is just a group of people with special skill sets that will be assisting in the setup of the system and who will be experiencing some online training before the main group. We are very fortunate in that we have many areas of our organization where there are lots of extremely qualified people and we had to pick one. We will still be needing help from everyone and you may be asked to attend one or more of these core group meetings based on what we expect the topic of the day to be. When we have a date and time for the kickoff meeting we will let everyone involved know.

EHR Core Team
Kris McVea - Provider
Hans Dethlefs - Provider
Michelle Linbo - Data Coordinator (starts 2/11/08)
Celia Blizzard - Nursing
Nikki Horton-Brown - Provider
Sarah Dworak - Operations
Rebecca Gil - HA/Lab
Veronica Martinez-Loya - Nursing
Jeremy Holt - IT
Courtney Allen - Provider
Alicia Lagunas - PT Support
Layne Prest - Provider, Behavioral Health
Therese Hennessy - Provider
Joel Dougherty - Operations

Thanks to all of these people for agreeing to be a part of this team!

Cass Family Medicine in the news

Our newest clinic, Cass Family Medicine was featured in the Plattsmouth Journal last week. The article was very well written and profiles the clinic during it's first week of operation. Thanks to everyone who contributed to getting this site up and running. Click here to read the article.

Denver Site Visits

Yesterday Hans, Kris, Andrea, Celia, and I went to Denver to visit two community health centers, Metro Community Provider Network and Clinica Campesina. The purpose of the visits was to talk to the leadership teams about their experiences with both redesign and with implementing and EHR. We were also able to take a tour of one clinic site for each of these organizations. The tours are so useful because they give you a chance to see the redesign concepts that you heard them talking about in action. We saw a lot of new and exciting things and also were told to prepare for the amount of work that implementing an EHR represents. Each of these clinics were very generous with their time and we hope to be able to pass that gift on to other clinics in the future who may want to come here to see the great work that our staff does here every day.

On the kind of funny side, I locked my keys in my truck at the airport, left my Ipod in the rental car in Denver, and had to sit next to Hans for both lunch and dinner. All trying experiences but I got through them. They say what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.