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April 28th, 2017

Keith’s Corner Greetings all, Hopefully with this last snow we are now into the final approach to spring – think positive!! I wanted to provide a quick update on the town hall meetings earlier this week. Attendance was pretty low so I felt you should at least know what we discussed and some of the updates….hopefully more of you will be able to attend the next ones.

Our topics of discussion included: 1. Top 100 Hospital Discussion – we talked about how we were selected for this very nice recognition and the fact that

the 8 different criteria reflected work being done in ALL areas of our facility so it was not just a quality award, not just a safety award, or not just a business award. It shows that, as a complete team, with all aspects of our work being reflected, we are one of the top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in the nation (and there are over 1200 CAHs in the US!). So congratulations to each of you and thank you for all that you do, wherever you work in our organization, to ensure that our patients and their families receive the best care out there.

2. Living Our Mission Metrics – we discussed the three main metrics of quality, safety and patient experience. I showed all of the graphs that compare our hospital to each of the others in our division and where we rank. We are doing very, very well in the areas of quality and safety but we have work to do still in the area of patient experience (HCAHPS). This is the main reason for our contract with Studer Group and the tools we are working to hardwire in our organization. Don’t neglect them! We also briefly discussed the other 6 Living Our Mission Metrics that CHI has established as the measures that are meaningful to us and what the standards are and will be over the next two years.

3. Finance Update – We discussed our current positive financial position and the fact that we are almost three times better than our budgeted numbers year to date. This is an amazing accomplishment and one that you should be justifiably proud of. We discussed the “Why” behind the staffing reductions and the fact that the rumor stating all the cuts were being absorbed at the MBO level and corporate offices are not doing anything as absolutely FALSE! The corporate offices have reduced thousands of positions and realigned a significant number of workflows to improve organizational efficiency and reduce overhead. This is a company-wide effort and all offices are doing their part.

4. Corporate Turnaround Efforts – We discussed new labor targets and measures, capital availability, new budget targets, reasons for the aggressive turnaround measures and the “why” for the turnaround.

Questions asked were: Can we include growth in ambulatory care as organic growth? How will we continue to absorb turnaround efforts in our facility? And, How will filling our unfilled employee positions affect the new labor standards? If you have any questions on the above, do not hesitate to ask me or any of the staff members who attended the sessions. Your department manager is also a great resource for your questions as we cover these topics in detail at managers meetings.

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Zona Wagar would like to thank: Kevin and Andy for putting the new treadmill together for Cardiac Rehab. Stephanie Mayfield would like to thank: Kevin Tougas and Andy Sather for their continued efforts to maintain our aging facility. I received a comment from a

visitor that they couldn’t believe the age of our buildings as it still looks great and well maintained compared too many other aging hospitals. Hats off to them and our Housekeeping department!

Amy Noeske for playing the organ for our April 5 Lenten Prayer service—it is a wonderful addition to have music at these services

All our CHI Mercy Health Nurses—we received a $100 donation to the Foundation Nurse Scholarship Fund in memory of Gary Seefeldt from his family and they stated: “This donation goes to the nursing scholarship fund in honor of all those that cared for Gary during his admissions in the last 2 months of his life. The family is grateful for all the care that was shown to him and the family.”

Lisa Urbatsch and Deb Hochhalter for being guides for the Kindergarten tours All the departments for supporting the Kindergarten tours Videlle Hamilton for continuing to be our Excellence In Action leader at our facility to continually remind and teach us

valuable Studer tools. Naomi Koch for her initiative to become a Within My Reach Facilitator and member of our Barnes County Violence

Prevention core team JoAnn Trader for allowing me to present the Domestic Violence workshop during Nurse Competency days Joshua Senger, Beth Smith, and Roger Stack for working together to create an effective capital process for new

purchases Dietary department for their attention to detail on catering requests—the food is always hot and delicious and the

presentation is always impressive as well! Lisa Urbatsch, Deb Hochhalter, and Kristi Schneider for helping prepare the Kindergarten treat bags that they receive

during the Kindergarten tours. Kelly Larson would like to thank: I know in the beginning of the manager meeting you read off recognitions of staff. I have never done this before, so

hopefully this is the correct process for submitting these to you I would like to recognize Randi Vanek for taking the time to make a Nursing Meditech cheat sheet that can be

referred to for admissions and setting up the worklist. I would also like to recognize Joann Trader for helping organize nursing competency days and adjusting the schedule

so I could attend Med Staff. I would also like to recognize Camille for helping train a new provider at the end of the month. I would also like to recognize Mary Kay Johnson for being so engaged in documenting on activities on our SWB care

plans so we are compliant with the state. I would like to recognize Kristi Schneider for all her work on ensuring we are capturing all the charges we can. She

does a great job checking accounts ensuring we are not missing anything. Amy Noeske would like to thank: Thank you to Naomi for her work in bringing referrals in. Thank you to Videlle for helping with the CAH CoPs. Donna Smith would like to thank: I would like to Thank Videlle for her help with my plants. Lisa and Deb for their technology assistance. Kyle for providing education for nursing. Their willingness to makes a GREAT team.

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CHI Mercy Health Foundation Scholarships Valley City, ND CHI Mercy Health Foundation is excited to announce it is accepting applications for four scholarships it is offering! Each year, two Nursing scholarships are given out to recipients that are enrolled in an accredited nursing program. One of the scholarships is provided by funds contributed by CHI Mercy Health’s Nursing Department which is matched by the foundation. The second Nursing scholarship comes from a fund set up to honor LaVonne Reidman. The family of LaVonne Reidman established this scholarship in 2005 in memory of Lavonne and her dedication to the nursing profession. LaVonne was a wonderful, caring nurse for many years at Mercy Hospital in Valley City. CHI Mercy Health Foundation is managing this scholarship for the Reidman Family. Finally, there will be two more scholarships offered that are open to anyone pursuing a General Medical career, including technician programs. One of these scholarships is provided by nursing staff fundraisers and the other through the LaVonne Reidman family. So please share this with your co-workers, friends, family and anyone you can think of that may be able to benefit from these funds. Please contact Stephanie Mayfield in the CHI Mercy Health Foundation office (direct #845-6557 or stephaniemayfield@catholichealth.net) to get an application or go online to: www.mercyhospitalvalleycity.org under the Scholarships tab.

The deadline to apply is May 15, 2017. CHI Mercy Health Foundation is a nonprofit organization to serve the needs of CHI Mercy Health. The Foundation is dedicated to providing support for Mercy Hospital with supplemental funding for capital and program needs essential to the hospital’s growth and development. Through this service, the residents of Valley City and the surrounding communities have access to local, modern, quality healthcare that allows our family, friends and neighbors to stay close to home for their health care needs.

CHI MERCY AUXILLARY

ANNOUNCES 2017 SCHOLARSHIPS CHI Mercy Auxiliary is excited to announce it is accepting applications for scholarship! Each year, one scholarship is given out to recipients that are enrolled in a Medical Health Care related career. The scholarship is provided by funds raised by CHI Mercy Health’s Auxiliary. To be eligible for Auxiliary scholarships the below criteria is required: Employees who have completed 2 years of full

-time or part-time employment at MH and have been accepted or are furthering their education in healthcare

Or volunteers who have completed 30 hours of volunteer time during the previous year and are seeking a degree in healthcare.

Graduating high school seniors who attend school and/or reside in Barnes County, ND, and who are children or grandchildren of current CHI Mercy Health employees or volunteers.

Please contact Lisa Urbatsch in the CHI Mercy Health Administration office (direct #845-6486 or lisaurbatsch@catholichealth.net) to get an application or go online to: http://www.mercyhospitalvalleycity.org/scholarships/ .

The deadline to apply is May 26, 2017. The CHI Mercy Health Auxiliary (CHI-MHA) is a volunteer organization devoted to supporting the hospital and the community it serves. If you would like to become a CHI Mercy Health Auxiliary member, please contact Lisa Urbatsch at 701-845-6486 or email lisaurbatsch@catholichealth.net

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