Gritman Medical Center 2014 Annual Report People Focused Community Driven Health Care
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Gritman Medical Center 2014 Annual Report People Focused Community Driven Health Care Cover art: Jeff Martin Memorial Garden “How can I help you today?” playful and kinetic wind sculptures by Utah Martin arrived at Gritman in 1999 and This is the phrase that former Gritman artist Lyman Whitaker. While attending an became our president and CEO in 2000. He Medical Center CEO Jeff Martin was famous IHA conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Jeff served Gritman until his untimely death in a for, and they are the words that greet visitors admired similar sculptures by Whitaker. car accident in 2010. to the Jeff Martin Memorial Garden, outside Collaboration between the Gritman Medical For more information about the garden, the hospital’s south entrance. Center Auxiliary, many local donors, and the go to gritman.org/memorial. The memorial garden includes three Gritman Medical Center Foundation allowed the vision for the garden to become a reality. People Focused Community Driven Health Care People Focused. we work to continuously Community Driven. improve how Gritman Medical Center is committed we care for our to providing extraordinary care to improve patients and their families. In Mission the health of the people in our community in Latah County and beyond. Thanks to the support of this To provide extraordinary dedication of our physicians, employees effort, we have care to improve the health and volunteers, this past year was full of made several of the people in our many accomplishments for Gritman Medical investments communities. Center. The pages that follow highlight some in technology, of these important activities. including 3-D Vision In 2013, we completed a Community mammography, To be the leading provider Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) that a 64-detector/128—slice Aquilion Computed of care in our communities identified top priority health needs of the Tomography (CT) scanner, and our and a recognized model for community; this assessment helps drive exceptional wound healing center. We are quality, service excellence our plan for providing care. As we continue also continuously investing in care outside of and fiscal stewardship. to move forward, I invite you to review our our downtown location; our legacy of high- 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment, quality, easily accessible, and convenient health care extends to our Troy, Potlatch and Values which is available on our website at www. Kendrick Family Care Clinics. Compassion • Respect gritman.org. Gritman strives to be the best place for Integrity • Excellence Over the years, we have made significant staff and volunteers to work, and the best Collaboration investments in medical technologies, place for physicians and providers to practice Accountability facilities, and education to improve health and wellness in our communities. Whether medicine. Gritman’s employees, volunteers it’s taking an active role in reducing the and the physicians we partner with are the physician shortage by helping fund the heart and soul of our organization. We WWAMI Rural Medicine Scholarships appreciate the dedicated service and or partnering with other health care compassionate care provided by our highly organizations to bring specialized care to our skilled professionals. region, the needs of our community remain As we look to 2015 and beyond, we remain our focus and priority. committed to being the best place for you Gritman’s strong financial position and your family to receive care. We are proud allowed us to provide the community with to serve this community, and look forward to numerous benefits and services, including ensuring quality health care for many years approximately $1.57 million in charity care, to come. while the organization continued to generate Sincerely, a positive operating margin and contributed over $81.5 million to the local economy. Patient safety and quality is essential; Kara Besst Community One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time. Gritman Medical Center volunteers make a difference every day. Thanks to our 638 volunteers for 20,632 hours of service in 2014. Tasha Paul, Idaho Hospital Association Junior Volunteer of the Year; Kara Besst, President and CEO, Gritman Medical Center; Debi Dockins, Director, Gritman Volunteer Services. IHA Junior Volunteer of the Year Tasha Paul was selected Junior Volunteer of the Year by the Idaho Hospital Association for her more than 350 volunteer hours of service to Gritman from 2010-2014. Paul held many leadership positions within Gritman’s Junior Volunteer program, including Community Programs president from 2013-2014. The IHA cited her work ethic, her Motherhood Connections • Cancer Resource Center willingness to help others and the ability to Diabetes Wellness Class • Fit and Fall Proof • Light A Candle see the impact of her work as contributing Bosom Buddies • Community Wellness Classes factors for receiving the honor. At Gritman, we witnessed her dedication and great Commitment to Community attitude every day and appreciate all of the time she gave to our patients, and to us. • Largest private employer in Latah County Tasha is now a freshman studying • $81.5 Million to economy molecular biology and biotechnology at the • $36 Million community payroll University of Idaho. • $1.57 Million in charity care in 2014 • $195,000 paid in property taxes People Focused WWAMI Keeping great talent near home is WWAMI has been important to any economy, and it is vital in medicine. The Gritman Medical Center phenomenal in Hospital Auxiliary and Foundation teamed training physicians up in 2014 to raise money to create two endowed scholarships to help students from the region through the University of Washington School and encouraging of Medicine’s WWAMI program, in hopes them to practice to bring them back to practice medicine in Latah County. in underserved Michelle Spain, board member and past areas. president of the Gritman Medical Center Foundation board, and husband Francis Spain, M.D. ‘76, a family practitioner and graduate of the first Idaho WWAMI class, led the effort to create the scholarships. Michelle Francis Spain, MD and Michelle Spain Spain heard about the Huckabay Challenge at an event at UW and brought the opportunity to Gritman Medical Center. The Huckabay family was willing to match funds raised dollar for dollar to create endowed scholarships through the UW for WWAMI Medical Students interested in practicing medicine in rural areas. “WWAMI has been phenomenal in training physicians from the region and encouraging them to practice in underserved areas,” says Francis Spain of the program. The Gritman Medical Center Auxiliary raised $50,000, and the Gritman Medical Center Foundation raised $50,000. With the matching funds, the endowments total $200,000 to help relieve the burden of Mary Wood, Auxiliary President; Kara Besst, President and CEO, Gritman Medical Center; Pam Hays, medical school tuition and help encourage Foundation President. new physicians to come home to Idaho after graduation. Health Care • Technology Technology in health care Gritman Medical Center is constantly used primarily for breast and reconstructive pushing the boundaries and adapting surgery at Gritman. It shows in real-time new technology to improve how we care how much blood is going to various tissues, for patients. In 2014, we made several allowing surgeons to more precisely remove investments in technologies to enhance tissue at risk of infection and spare healthy patient care. Three new advances tissue. The nearest hospitals with this were added to the hospital’s roster of technology are in Boise and Seattle. technological tools. Finally, the 64 detector/128-slice Aquilion Computed Tomography (CT) scanner by Imaging is at the forefront of Toshiba, also brought to the hospital in high technology in medicine August, quickly scans any region of the body, and that is the direction helping physicians accurately diagnose injury, Gritman has chosen to go … illness, and many diseases. The machine provides some of the sharpest images these investments allow us achievable, enabling doctors to spot small to help the greatest number tumors and other disease processes in their of people. earliest stages. The machine can even take still images of a beating heart, allowing Gritman was the first of nine major doctors to detect minute plaque deposits hospitals in the region to offer 3-D inside coronary arteries. mammography, which has resulted in “Imaging is at the forefront of high a significant increase in mammogram technology in medicine and that is the screenings and more than doubling the direction Gritman has chosen to go with total number of biopsy-proven breast these and other investments,” said Scott cancers found and treated, and a 25 percent Nelson, Gritman director of diagnostic reduction in call-back requests for additional imaging. “These investments allow us imaging. to help the greatest number of people, In August, we introduced the new SPY since imaging is so crucial to many other Elite Perfusion Assessment System, which is treatments.” Wound Care Gritman Medical Center’s Wound Healing Center was one of 172 providers nationwide to be selected for a Healogics, Inc., Center of Distinction Award. We offer the Palouse’s only wound healing center, and the award is based on receiving outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, a wound healing rate of at least 91 percent within 30 median days to heal, and other quality outcomes. There were 506 centers eligible for the Center of Distinction award. Chronic wounds affect more than 8 million people in the U.S., and about 1,400 people in Latah and Whitman counties. The incidence of chronic wounds is rising, due to an aging population and an increase in conditions like diabetes and other diseases that interfere with healing. Our Wound Healing Center is a member of the Healogics Network of more than 635 Centers, and offers highly-specialized wound care to patients suffering from diabetic ulcers, pressure ulcers, infections and other chronic wounds which have not healed in a reasonable amount of time.