News & Notes

COASTAL CAROLINAS HEALTH ALLIANCE & COASTAL CONNECT HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE

We are thrilled to announce that

CCHA’s Regional SANE (Sexual

Assault Nurse Examiner) Training

Program received an Intalere

Member Achievement Award for

C o m m u n i t y I m p a c t a n d

Innovation! Representatives from the

SANE team were invited to attend

Intalere’s 2019 ELEVATE conference in

Denver, CO, to receive the award.

Colleen Mistovich, NHRMC SANE

Coordinator, Jessica McAlear, ED

Coordinator for NHRMC, and I attended

the conference, which was a mix of

educational sessions, vendor shows/

exhibits, networking socials, and an

awards ceremony. Healthcare providers

from all over the country attend this

conference each year to learn more about

healthcare savings, opportunities, and

industry changes.

We share this award with our member

hospitals and their dedicated staff, like

Colleen and Jessica, who have

demonstrated their passion for patient

care by undergoing SANE training. Such

strong regional partnerships will help

sustain this program for years to come,

and CCHA is honored to align with them

in these efforts!

We are also excited to announce that the

SANE Program will be awarded additional

grant funds by the North Carolina

Governor’s Crime Commission to continue

recruiting and training SANEs at member

hospitals through the year 2021. Our goal

is to train 20 Adult SANEs and 12

Pediatric SANEs by the end of that term.

These new grant funds will support

enhancing our current programs,

providing hospitals/providers with updated

supplies, and continuing education for

those nurses who have been previously

trained.

CCHA “SANE” PROGRAM RECEIVES NATIONAL

RECOGNITION FOR IMPACT & INNOVATION

CCHA’s Mobile Simulation

Program (MSP) has recently

collaborated with New

Hanover Medical Group and

Scotland Health Care System

clinics to provide simulation

education and skill refreshers for

annual competencies for their nurses,

medical assistants, and front desk

staff, among others. Our MSP team

facilitates a high-fidelity simulation

Mock Code and a Customer Service

simulation with standardized patients.

In addition, clinic staff cycle through

stations with some of the following

topics: medication administration, vital

s igns, in and out catheters,

phlebotomy, IV insertion, EKG, and

others. The team travels to clinics

throughout the region to provide these

educational opportunities, thereby

increasing utilization of the MSP for

our participating members.

MOBILE SIM TEAM DRIVES CLINICAL UTILIZATION

CARES will host a HAM radio

licensing class at NHRMC’s

Orthopedic Campus on Friday

June 21st from 8a—4:30p and

Saturday June 29th from

8am—1pm. This session will

support the expansion and training of

participants for our monthly Net calls

and in the event of an emergency. The

class is FREE to ALL Hospital

employees! To learn more about

CARES, p lease v i s i t : h t t p : / /

coastalalliance.org/our-work/cares/.

CARES LICENSE CLASS JUNE 21ST & 29TH

Bruce Kavanaugh of New

Hanover Regional Medical

Center has participated in

CCHA’s Materials Directors

Team for nearly eleven years.

He learned his lesson when he

missed a meeting in 2009 and was

appointed team chair, a position he has

held for the past decade! Bruce has led

this team with compassion and

dedication. During his tenure, the team

has collaborated, shared best (and

worst) practices, provided education,

supported CCHA and Illucient contract

selection and negotiation, and, for the

last three years, he has made me look

good to the students at UNCW taking my

Healthcare Operations Management

class. Through his guest lecturing (and

sharing some good stories) and site

visits, along with internships, he has

influenced UNCW business students as

they consider the health care industry to

start their career the same way he has

led the team of supply chain leaders

from the other facilities. Thank you for

everything, Bruce! Enjoy your well-

deserved retirement!

A NOTE OF GRATITUDE FOR BRUCE KAVANAUGH, CCHA’S LONGEST-SERVING PROJECT TEAM CHAIR

Each year, Coastal Connect

Health Information Exchange

(CCHIE) surveys its connected

users to gauge the value and

usefulness of the patient

information available through the

HIE as well as its tools and functionality.

Responses help our team identify

potential gaps, opportunities for growth,

and new capabilities to explore. We’d like

to share some of the highlights from our

2019 Survey, which had 144 responses:

• 92% of respondents either agreed or

strongly agreed to the statement that

“Using the HIE has improved the

overall efficiency in our practice/

organization by reducing the time I

search for or request information

from another provider entity.”

• Respondents said that HIE access

has impacted the quality and safety

of patient care through improved

care processes, improved care

transitions, improved patient

outcomes, reduced medication

errors, and improved patient

satisfaction.

• One respondent wrote: “CCHIE has

reduced medication errors for our

veterans and helped provide

seamless continuity of care for

patients seeing multiple providers.”

COASTAL CONNECT HIE’S ANNUAL PARTICIPANT SURVEY SEES POSITIVE RESULTS, IMPACT ON CARE

Thank You to our

Alliance Day 2018

Gold & Silver Sponsors:

GOLD SPONSOR

SILVER SPONSORS Bruce Kavanaugh (center) tours McLeod Health’s distribution center with CCHA’s Materials Directors team.

The USP 800 Seminar, hosted by

CCHA’s Pharmacy Team and

sponsored by Guaranteed

Returns, was held at NHRMC on

May 31st for all hospitals in the

r e g i o n .

The impact of this

new regulation

affects most areas

of the hospital and

requ i res new

training, procedures, facility modifications,

etc. Fifteen facilities were represented, with

a total of 55 attendees. A post-seminar

survey indicated 100% of the learning

objectives were met and overall value was

provided by the main speaker, Lindsay

Amerine, Director of Pharmacy from UNC

Medical Center.

PHARMACY TEAM’S USP 800 SEMINAR A SUCCESS!