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Medical Staff 69 Swedish/Edmonds July VitalSigns 2014 Wound Healing Clinic Opening this issue Celeste Sather, Sarah Zabel, David Jaffe, Beth P.1 Mueller, Darren Mazza, Tony Armada and Peter Ro, M.D., celebrate the opening of the new Wound Healing Clinic Swedish/Edmonds Center for Wound Healing & Opening Hyperbarics at Kruger Clinic. The clinic moved to Two EDs Recognized With Kruger Clinic, 21600 Highway 99, suite 150, in May. The new location offers more space and enhanced Nurse Lantern Award accessibility for patients. P.2 Improved Performance Measures Worthy of Comment Two Swedish Emergency Departments Swedish CME Events Recognized With Nurse Lantern Award P.3 The Emergency Department (ED) nursing contacting ED patients after discharge to Obstructive Sleep Apnea teams at Swedish/Edmonds and Swedish/ follow up on their care. Also credited with Program Returns Ballard are among only 17 ED teams working closely to collaborate on improving New Hospital Parking nationwide to be honored with the ED care are physicians, technicians, Garage Opens Emergency Nurse Association (ENA) 2014 laboratory and imaging staff. Lantern Award. The Lantern Award CDIP Report recognizes an ED’s commitment to quality, “This award reflects the diligence of our P.4 safety, a healthy work environment and nurses, physicians, physician assistants, Physicians Recognized as innovation in nursing practice and technicians, social workers and ancillary Top Docs emergency care. Achievement of the staff to improve the care our patients Lantern Award indicates that an ED receive,” says Heather Gutierrez, clinical New Foundation Staff exemplifies outstanding and exemplary nurse manager of the Swedish/Edmonds Member performance in the core areas of leadership, ED. “We have transformed this ED on many P.5 practice, education, advocacy and research. levels over the past several years and our New Swedish Insulin - SC hard work is now nationally recognized.” Basal Bolus Correctional - “The Lantern Award is a result of Adult tremendous hard work and dedication by the In addition to Swedish/Edmonds, the Ballard ED caregivers to serve the medical needs of ED nursing team is also a recipient of the Create Your Swedish Web our community,” says David Jaffe, chief Lantern Award. Profile executive at Swedish/Edmonds. “I’m so very P.6 proud of the ED nursing staff, who in "Our campus and the community Patient Satisfaction Survey collaboration with all physicians, technicians, surrounding Swedish/Ballard are truly thrilled Comments laboratory and imaging staff, for their Please see Lantern Award on What are Patients Saying? ongoing ability to make great strides in the delivery of the highest quality care.” page 7 inside P. 7 New Parking Garage, The Edmonds ED nursing team has focused Lantern Award cont. recent initiatives on reducing the time patients spend in the ED as well as P. 8 Welcome New Physicians Improved Performance Measures Worthy of Comment By: Bruce Williams M.D., chair, Quality Council All staff at Swedish/Edmonds work below the state (15.9 percent) and diligently to continuously improve the national (18.16 percent) averages quality of the care we deliver to our according to the Hospital patients. Everyone in the institution, Performance Report: Medicare Fee from housekeeping to specialty for Service 30-day Readmissions physicians, from bedside nurses to Report. We are arguably doing the executive administrative team, superior work in integrating patients focuses daily on steps we can take with community resources at the to bring the best medical science time of discharge; improving patient and compassionate care to each well-being by providing durable and every patient that comes results. Bruce Williams, M.D. through our doors. And while Our goal at Swedish/Edmonds is to medicine is very much a human Third, a recent comparison of be the best community hospital in endeavor and perfection is the hospitals in the Seattle metropolitan Washington state. We are well on ultimate goal, improving in area by "hospital acquired the road to providing an exceptional performance measures along the conditions," meaning harms level of medical service and care to road is a gratifying affirmation of our experienced by patients during their the residents of south Snohomish achievements to date. stay, ranks Swedish/Edmonds in the top quartile of 22 citywide facilities. County with superior, measurable The Medicare program, under the The measure includes catheter improvements in efficiency, safety umbrella of the Centers for Medicare related infections, falls, bedsores and the successful integration of and Medicaid Services and the legal and other potentially preventable care after discharge. framework of the Affordable Care injuries and is a reflection of the care Act, now compiles and reports we take and the emphasis we place publicly many measures of the on patient safety by all hospital staff. health care delivered in hospitals around the country. Recent results regarding Swedish/Edmonds are worthy of comment. Swedish CME Events First, according to Medicare’s Below are upcoming Swedish CME activities. Please visit www.swedish.org/cme Hospital Specific Report, May 2014 - for locations, times and the most up-to-date information about upcoming CME Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary, activities. which compares what our facility actually costs to deliver services for 4th Annual Intensive Update in Neurology specific diagnoses and patients to Thursday and Friday, Sept. 11-12 other hospitals in Washington and around the country, our bottom line TeleHealth: Improving Access to Health Care number is 0.95 for 2013. This means Friday, Sept. 19 we spent significantly less per dollar average cost compared to American 18th Annual Pain Management Symposium: Be an Einstein – Use the Brain hospitals as a whole. This number in to Treat Pain fact places us in the top third of Friday, Sept. 26 hospitals nationally for efficiency. Medical Ethics Conference Series for Health-Care Providers Second, our readmission rate is 15.6 4th Wednesdays, broadcast to the 4th Floor Conference Room at Swedish/ percent for 2013, down from 17.3 Edmonds percent in 2010 and significantly 2 4 Obstructive Sleep Apnea Program Returns We are pleased to announce the As part of the protocol, patients will We look forward to once again return of the Obstructive Sleep also receive OSA educational improving the care delivered to this Apnea (OSA) management program materials at discharge and population of at risk patients. at Swedish/Edmonds. As a first step instructions to follow up with their in reintroducing the OSA program, primary care physician to discuss nursing has already begun whether a referral for a sleep study screening any patient placed in a is appropriate for them. bed, inpatients as well as outpatients, for “known sleep apnea” or “at higher risk of sleep apnea” New Hospital Parking Garage Opens using the hospital’s former STOP- The first phase of the Swedish/ request an escort from Swedish/ BAG criteria. Providers may have Edmonds expansion project, Edmonds security to and from the already noticed the yellow OSA construction of a new parking garage. banners that appear in Epic on garage, is complete. In celebration, a Looking ahead to the next phase of some patients. This means the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new the hospital expansion project, a patient was identified as having garage was held on June 27. ground-breaking ceremony will be known sleep apnea or screened Following the ribbon cutting, the held in September for the new positive for being at higher risk for mayor of Edmonds, Dave Earling, ambulatory center which will include OSA. was the first driver to officially park a an emergency department (ED), vehicle in the new structure. The When the program is live July 21 urgent care center, outpatient parking garage is now open for use and the yellow banner designation diagnostic imaging center, spacious by Swedish/Edmonds caregivers and appears on a patient’s Epic record, public lobby and more. But not the community. physicians/providers will be everything being planned for the responsible for initiating the OSA The garage provides free parking for project is new. In fact, a feature has protocol by placing a stand-alone more than 360 vehicles and includes been identified that’s been around order which activates the protocol added security features such as millions of years. for staff to begin OSA monitoring security cameras and assistance Please see New Parking Garage and care. buttons. Providers and staff may also on page 7 inside Clinical Documentation Integrity Program (CDIP) Report: May Total Reviews: 343 May’s Top 5 Clarifications: 1. Acute kidney failure Total Clarifications: 39 2. Hyponatremia 3. Malnutrition Response Rate: 77% 4. Acute blood loss anemia 5. Sepsis Physician Agree Rate: 59% Total Case Mix Index for Medicare and Managed Medicare: 1.6507 Thank you to the medical and surgical staff for taking the time to respond to these queries. Please contact Melanie Westerinen, Documentation Integrity Liaison, at 425-640-4378 with any questions. 3 Swedish and Swedish/Edmonds Physicians Recognized as Top Docs in Seattle Magazine The results of Seattle magazine’s James Willems Tanmeet Sethi 14th annual “Top Doctors” survey are published in the July issue, now Jay Parikh Tracy Johannsen available on newsstands. As in years past, several Swedish- Jim Walsh Vivek Mehta affiliated (or credentialed) physicians are recognized in the popular issue Joel Wassermann * Bolded names are those of