May 2013

(L to R): Lisa Miller-Linville, Medical/Surgical/Telemetry, Emily Toole, Medical/Surgical/Telemetry, Shawn Conley, Pain Relief Center, Jessica Nance, ED

Not pictured: Lori Russell, Surgery, Catherine Posey, ICU

Front row (L to R): Renee Zain, Post Anesthesia Care Unit; Karen Hall, Patient Access Center; Betsy Keene, Operating Room; Kristi Nelson, Mother/Baby; Angie Cox, Labor & Delivery

Back row (L to R): Jennifer Wileman, Pediatrics; Courtney Scalise, NICU; Sandra Burrell, Gynecology; Janie Booker, Breast Center; Erin Hopkins, Emergency Department; Julianne Barker, PICU

Front row (L to R): Krista Powers, David Lee Cancer Center; Cellia Warner, ED; Rob Plutro, SICU; Toni Priestley, PCCU; Holly Blackwood, VCOE; Jessica Fields, Endoscopy

Middle row (L to R): Melissa Taylor, 5 South; Dee Elmore, 5 West; Crystal Kimble, 2 East; Rebecca Butcher, MICU; Chad Miller, MICU; Kelly Anderson, Cardiac Rehab; Sylvia Seay, PACU; Julie Mitchell, 3 West; Lisa Beck, OR; Janet Ferrebee, Open Heart Recovery; Cathy Moore, 4 North; Sandra Fix, 3 South

Back row (L to R): Kristin Sutler, 3 North; Janice Hanson, Patient Access Center; Angela Shearer, Outpatient Care Center; Debbie Brenneman-Phillips, Nursing Diagnostic Services; Melissa Cook, 2 West; Kenneth Lester, CDL; Kim Phillips, Clinical Resource Dept.; Dianna Branham, 4 South; Amanda Mullins, Cath Lab

Not pictured: Joanna Abbott, 3 East; Jessica Cogar, 4 West; Kristi Haynes, CICU; Wende Jones, Surgicare; Jean Moore, VICU

Front row (L to R): Jessie Helmbright, 6 East; Amber Young, 3/7 South; Julie Bowles, 5 South; Melanie Dinsmore, PACU; Amy Nichols, Med Rehab; Ashley Johnson, MICU

Back row (L to R): Tracy McDonald, 3/7 South; Christy Parsons, 6 South; Corrine Fortin, 4 South; Christopher Campbell, Surgical & Trauma ICU; Danielle Maness, OR; Karen Fox, Ambulatory Surgery Center; Erin Anthony, Neuro ICU

Not pictured: Mary Mullins, Short Stay Surgery

Congratulations 2013 Award of Excellence in Professional Nursing Award RecipientsSelected by their peers for outstanding contributions to patient care

Memorial Hospital

Teays Valley Hospital

General Hospital

Saturday, June 1 • 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.Charleston Civic Center

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Pre-register for all screenings (even if you are scheduled to work HealthFest) by calling (304) 345-9051 weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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Other FREE screenings at HealthFest include:• Peripheralarterydisease• Diabeticretinopathy• Stroke• Osteoporosis• Heart• Hearing• Vision

Participants also can:• Discussmedicationswithapharmacist• Gethelppreparinglivingwillsandmedicalpowersofattorney• Learnaboutnutrition,skindamage,lungcare,BMIandhealthyweightloss

FREE sports physicals for middle school and high school students will be offered from noon to 2 p.m.

Now OpenWhat better way for CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital to celebrate its 25th anniversary than by opening private rooms for families having babies? The hospital held an open house May 13 to show off the new rooms.

Women and Children’s Hospital

Thedrillsmaybeinthepast,butthelearning continues. Between now and July,CAMCwillcontinueworkingwith state planners in preparation for the jamboree.

Memorial Hospital following a mock bus accident.

CAMC’s emergency response plan has been developed and revised over time to guide employees’ response to events which challenge hospital operations. These drills challenge employees to know the disaster plan and be prepared for the unexpected curves that usually come with a disaster.

“No matter what happens,hospitalshavegottobeready,”saidLillianMorris,corporate director for safety. “As the tertiary care center for southern West Virginia,CAMCmustprepare to accept critically ill patients transferred from other facilities across several counties.”

Basic medical care will be provided on siteattheJamboree.However,in2010hospitals near that jamboree treated 704totalpatients,admitting337ofthem with 23 in critical condition and another 38 serious.

“InplanningforourAprildrill,wewanted to test our ability to treat additionaltraumapatients,”Morrissaid. “We also wanted to test staff on caring for an infectious disease outbreak.”

DuringApril’sdrill,volunteer“patients”cametoCAMCWomenandChildren’s Hospital due to meningitis while other patients went to CAMC

CAMC conducts drills internally and regularly participates with community agencies and other hospitals.

Usually the scenario’s focus is on a major accident or community event that sends several patients to CAMC’s facilities.

Rarely do hospitals get to practice for somethingthat’sverylikely,andjustafew months away. But that’s just what severalhospitals,fromPutnamtoGreenbriercounties,didinApril.

It’sthefirsttimetheBoyScoutJamboree will be held in West Virginia. Between July 15 and July 24about40,000scoutsandseveralthousand more adult leaders and volunteers will be at the jamboree in Fayette County. Every day during thattime,about8,000scoutswillbe transported for activities such as rafting,swimmingandrockclimbing.Inaddition,scoutswillparticipateincommunity services projects over a 10-county area.

This many people together in one place and traveling presents the possibility that many people will need emergency care.

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Emergency response: practicing for the test

To access CMS indicators and other reports,userscangotothequalitymanagement site on CAMnet. Reports will continue to be sent out to stakeholdersasusual,butthemostcurrent will also be loaded on to the qualitymanagementsite,inadditionto other data related to evidence-based care indicators and harm indicators,etc.

The three sections of reports available include:• Scorecards: CAMC and hospital

scorecards along with control charts

• CMS Indicators:CMSqualityindicator spreadsheet as well as theunitspecificdataforCMSindicators

• QUEST Reports: overall QUEST PerformanceReports,alldrilldown reports and the harm report

Thequalitymanagementsitecanbeaccessed from the Departments link on CAMnet.

CMS indicators and other reports available on quality management site

Congratulations to the participants in the 2013 Spring Research Day. The program featured 101 oral presentations.ClarkHansbarger,MD,associate vice president for Health Sciences and Dean WVU-Charleston Division,wastherecipientoftheMaier Educator of the Year Award.

RESEARCH DAY

Biggest Losers!Congratulations to this year’s biggest losers.PatriciaKeeling,accounting,won the individual competition losing 21.11 percent of her body weight. TheWalkingFed,fromTeaysValleyHospital won the team competition

losing nearly 17.04 percent body weight combined. Prizes were awarded tothetopthreefinishersineachcategory.Sincethecontestkickedoff,participants have collectively lost more than2,000pounds.

The 2013 CAMC Foundation Gala raised $359,276 to help the children and families cared for at CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital. Thanks Dr. Art and Missy Rubin for their leadership of the event. Guests traveled Back to the Future to celebrate the ‘80s and the 25th anniversary of Women and Children’s Hospital.

RickeyKincaid,SarahCincinnati,ChristinaTate,RebeccaButcher,Danielle Dials and Christina Kinder fromtheMedicalIntensiveCareUnitat Memorial were nominated for going above and beyond to care for a dying patient.

Duringoneofthesnowstorms,thepatient’s family could not get to the hospital to be with him during the last hours of his life.

After working a 12-hour shift and being hungry due to half eaten lunchesandtiredfromabusy,busyday and ready to go home and see theirfamilies,thisgroupdecidedtospend a little extra time with someone

they had just met. They sat at his bedside,holdinghishand,prayingand singing until he passed. They took time to stay with this patient in his last moments on earth because his family was unable to get to him due to the bad weather. They did not want him to die alone.

His wife was updated often on the phone and was very thankful for the caringstaffoftheMICUinthistimeof need.

Congratulations to the others nominated in April: Behavioral Health Services,KristenJustice,BonnieSmith,GinaWalker.

Editor: Elizabeth PellegrinGraphic Designer: Tony Campbell

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A publication of the CAMC Health System

Writers: Leslie Carpenter Julia NolandAshley Showen

Published by: Marketing & Public Affairs PO Box 1547 • Charleston, WV 25326 Story ideas always welcome. To suggest a story, call (304) 388-5757, fax (304) 388-5755.

Writer, Editors: Dale Witte Jessica Duffield

NicoleRiedel,TVHphysicaltherapy,wasrecognizedasthesecondquarterEmployee of Excellence.

Riedel has received numerous complimentsfrompatients,families,her fellow co-workers and other TVH departments. Here’s some of what people said about Riedel:• She goes above and beyond for

her patients. She often is willing to do things that are totally outside the realm of her department in order to make her patients more comfortable.

• There is nothing ever asked of her that she hasn’t been willing to do.

• She is incredibly knowledgeable and often has great suggestions to better care for patients.

• The thing that really sticks out most is the fact that she treats every patient with the same respect and empathy that she would her own family. She is constantly encouraging patients and is so heartfelt in everything she does and says. She has a special way of making the person she is speaking with or treating feel like they are the most important thing going on at that moment by giving them her undivided attention.

The humanitarian category of Heart and Soul recognizes employees for acts of kindness and charity who contribute to enhancing and promoting the welfare of humanity in thecommunity,nationorworld.

Mike Williams,administratoratCAMCGeneralHospital,wasfirstonthe scene of a terrible accident.

A man was on his motorcycle on Route 119 when he was hit by an automobile.

Williams just happened to be right behind the accident and jumped into action tending to the injured motorcyclist.

The patient lost one of his legs in the accident,butwassoappreciativethatWilliams took the immediate action he did.

Thepatienttoldfamily,friendsandstaffatGeneralHospitalthatnotonlywasWilliamsfirstonthesceneoftheaccident,butthatifhehadnotplacedthetourniquet,hewouldhavebledtodeath at the scene.

Eachquarteramanagerisrecognizedfor the Heart and Soul Award.

Sande Egnor,managerforthemedicalICUandneurosciencesICUatGeneralHospitalreceivedtheawardatthe management information meeting in April.

Egnor’s leadership encourages others toexemplifyourMission,VisionandCore Values through her embrace of the Baldrige philosophy.

She deploys these values systematically to her management team and her staff.

Her staff is more successful because of Sande’s support and mentorship.

Egnor has achieved excellence in performanceimprovementactivities,which lead her department in making great strides in improving safety for patients.

Work on her units was the 2012 CAMC Quality Week Award Winners forBestinTCTImplementationandStaff Engagement.

According to the person nominating her,thesearejustsomeofthereasonswhy Egnor is a wonderful example of Heart and Soul at CAMC.

The 19th Annual West Virginia Challenged Sports Championships were held in Charleston May 1-4. Athletes of all ages from West Virginia and surrounding states participated in Track&Field,Archery,Weightlifting,Swimming and Marksman events. CAMC’s Medical Rehabilitation CentersponsorsChallengedSports,which is the state’s only sanctioned sports program for individuals with physical disabilities. “Ourmissionistonotonlyoffersportsasatherapeuticintervention,but also as a means to promote a lifetime investment in one’s health andwell-being,”saidJeremiahGagnon,programdirector.“We

West Virginia Challenged Sports Championships showcase athletes’ abilities

strive to achieve this by offering a program where physically challenged individuals can explore sports for the firsttimeorcontinuepursuingsportsof interest to their greatest potential despitetheirlimitations.”

Rickey Kincaid, Rebecca Butcher, Danielle Dials

2013

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Shelley Zeigler has been promoted to human resource manager. Her responsibilities will be the daily leadership and operations of the fourhospitalHRdepartments,working directly with the HR staff and managers.

Mary Caldwell is the new corporate director for total compensation. Most recently she was manager for compensation/benefits.

Jonathan Tucker recently became the linen operations plant manager. Additionally,heservesasthemailroom/courier manager.

Congratulations to Memorial Hospital central service technicians Joshua Hetu and Steven Jewell for achieving theirnationalcertifications.

Memorial central service welcomes Randy Darnell,housekeeper;William Johnson,technicianI;James Parker,technicianIandCody Mays,technicianI,andcongratulatesRoy (Frank) Wolfe,housekeeper,asits1st Quarter 2013 “Employee of the Quarter.”

CAMC Teays Valley Hospital pharmacy congratulates Melissa Mynes and Justin Rueckert for advancing to pharmacytechII.

Congratulations to John Handley,marketingandpublicaffairs,winningfirstplaceinanFBLA-PBLcollegelevel business studies competition in marketing analysis and decision making and business decision making.

Supply chain management congratulates Deanna Pauley,datamanagement,asitsemployeeofthefirstquarterof2013.

Mari Cris Miller has been promoted to director of patient experience. She has worked as an occupational therapist since 1997.

The following CAMC pediatric residents who received prizes at the Annual Resident Research Competition at WV-American Academy of Pediatrics meeting,heldatStonewallJacksonResort April 19 and 20: Dr. Teresa Recker-Gross –firstprizeinoriginalresearch;Dr. Sarah Steward–firstprizeincasepresentation;Dr. Erica Tuckwiller – second prize in poster presentation.

Dr. Raheel Khan was recently elected as president of American Academy of Pediatrics-WV Chapter at its annual meeting. Dr. Khan is the residency program director for Pediatrics and Med-Pedsprograms,andisalsotheinterim chair for the department of pediatrics.

Children’sInfusionCenterrecognizesMelissa Appleton,RNforadvancingtoaCNIII

Pediatrics welcomes Mary White,NA

PICUwelcomesCallie Herdman,RN

2 West welcomes Darlene Wheeler,NA and Pamela Kengla,NA.

Nursing Diagnostic Support LPN Monitored Transport welcomes Anastasia Young and Diana Staab.

Behavioral Health congratulates Barbra O’Neal,RN,andPaul Willard,RN,forsuccessfullychallengingtoCNIII

MemorialMICUcongratulatesAdam Richards and Ritchie Roberts for passing the CCRN exam.

Nursing News and Notes

MILESTONES Free Sports Physicals ClinicThe free physicals will be held from 8a.m.tonoon,Saturday,June1atCAMC Teays Valley Hospital – Physical Therapy,1201HospitalDr.Physicalsare for middle and high school athletes playing in the 2013-14 school year. Students must bring the sports physical formprovidedbytheirschoolSIGNEDBYAPARENT/GUARDIANtoreceiveaphysical. Forms will be available at the clinic,butitmustbesignedbyaparent/guardian at the clinic. Walk-ins only. For more information call (304) 757-2273 ext. 22.

WV Rainbow Run 5K Race/Walk and 1 Mile Fun WalkSaturday,June1,from9to10a.m.beginning and ending at the Living AIDSMemorialGarden.Theeventraises money for the CAMC Ryan WhiteProgramandtheLivingAIDSMemorialGarden.Racevolunteersalsoneeded: email Jeff Crist at mrjeffcrist@gmail.com to help with the race. Register in the run or walk online at www.2013wvrainbowrun.eventbrite.com or day of the race.

2013 Corporate CupThe Charleston Family YMCA will host its 28th annual Corporate Cup Competition June 1-22. Events include softball,horseshoes,darts,billiards,volleyball,tennis,swimming,trackandfield,andnewthisyear:“BrainChallenge”Triviacontest.Inaddition,teams can receive spirit points for donating blood as well as canned food and other items for military care packages.

Ifyouhaveanyquestions,pleaseemailwellness@camc.org.

Yoga on Magic IslandBeginning June 4 and running for nine weeks,thesefreeclasseswilltakeplaceTuesday mornings from 6 to 7 a.m. All levels are welcome. Bring your own mat andblanket,andsomethingtoplaceunder your mat. Classes are canceled if it is raining. For more information call (304) 388-2928.

Run for Your LifeThe annual 5-mile run is scheduled for Saturday,June22at8a.m.Itbeginsand ends at the Capitol. All entry fees from Run for Your Life go to the CAMC Foundation to support colorectal cancer awareness and screening. Call (304) 388-9864 for more information. Register online at http://www.camc.org/foundationspecialevents.

CALENDAR

Payroll Customer Service

Payroll hours are Monday through Friday,8a.m.to5p.m.

The payroll customer service window is closed every Tuesday for payroll processing.

Please use one of the following courses ofactionwhenthepayrollofficeisclosed:

•You may use Lawson Self-Serve to accessyourpayrecords,changetaxwithholdinginformation,andtomake changes to your direct deposit information.

•Itisimportanttonotethatthesystemprevents changes from being made if it is too late for those changes to take place during the current payperiod.Employees,includingpayrollemployees,cannotmakechanges at this time. Please try again immediately after the current payroll Friday.

•QuickCharge forms are available on CAMnet. The link is located on the face of CAMnet in the yellow shaded menu area. You may submit the notarized forms to either the payroll officeoryourhumanresourceoffice.A secure drop box is located outside the payroll customer service window for your convenience. QuickCharge forms are also available at your HR office,andnotariesareavailabletoyou at those locations.

Ifyourequirefurtherassistance,youmay contact payroll customer service at (304) 388-3679 or email payroll@camc.org,andsomeonewillrespond as soon as possible.