The North Pinellas
HEARTBEAT
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CEO ADDRESS
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JUNE 2018 VOL 2 ISSUE 6
CEO ADDRESS This is a very special edition of The North Pinellas Heartbeat for me, as it is the first issue I am sending to you as the new President & CEO. I first and foremost want to thank each of you for the warm welcome and best wishes you have provided to me in this new role. I am extremely honored and proud to serve this hospital and team and look forward to the future ahead for Florida Hospital North Pinellas. This newsletter will serve as one of the many ways I plan to communicate to with our employees, and I will continue to send this monthly. I am also committed to providing you with more frequent and various ways of communicating to you, so you can be fully aware of all the great initiatives going on at our hospital.
JOINT COMMISSION UPDATE
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aintaining Egress: 62% of facilities in 2017 were cited on this requirement. Remember that all equipment must be maintained on the same side of the hallway. All equipment must move at least every 30 minutes except isolation carts, code carts and chemo carts.
In this issue of the Heartbeat, you will read about many exciting projects that are slated to begin soon at the hospital, including new bed purchases, floor renovations, and an update on our ER renovation timeline. We will also recap some of the great initiatives and events that employees have attended, such as The Whole Care Experience, which is bringing together our entire system under on common mission, vision, values, and service standards. I hope you enjoy this issue of The North Pinellas Heartbeat. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication thus far in 2018. I look forward to seeing what the rest of this year will bring. God Bless,
Jason Dunkel Interim President and CEO
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HOSPITAL UPDATES PATIENT BED UPDATE As you may know, we have been working on ordering new patient beds for our hospital, and we are pleased to announce that we will be starting a phased ordering process very soon. The first phase will be an order for 60 new beds, and that will be placed the week of July 2nd. The new beds will be delivered 10-12 weeks after the order is placed. After the first phase is complete, we will place orders for additional beds throughout the end of the year. Phase two will add up to equal an additional 50 beds. All of the phase 2 orders will be placed by January 1, 2019.
FLOOR RENOVATIONS ARE COMING! We are extremely excited to announce that we will be renovating interior areas of our hospital with new flooring and paint. The renovations are slated to begin following our Joint Commission Survey visit this year. Interior renovation areas will include the hospital lobby, 3rd floor, 6th floor and 7th floor. Stay tuned for more information on the upcoming renovations at FHNP.
EMERGENCY ROOM RENOVATION UPDATE I know many of you have questions about the upcoming Emergency Room renovation for our onsite ER. We are pleased to let everyone know that at this time, we have a target construction date of April 2019. Our leadership team, and Adventist Health System, is fully committed to this 15 million project to improve our Emergency Department to help better serve our community.
HOSPITAL LEASE NEWS You may soon hear out in the community our plans to renegotiate our lease with the City of Tarpon Springs. We want to be a long-term health partner with the city of Tarpon Springs and its surrounding communities. Renegotiating the lease to expand it beyond 2040 would give us nearly a century long commitment with the community and the ability to continue to grow and deliver our unique level of inspired, compassionate care for many years to come.
GET WITH THE GUIDELINES STROKE GOLD PLUS
Florida Hospital North Pinellas has received the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Florida Hospital North Pinellas earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date, evidencebased guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS HANDS-ONLY CPR EVENT Florida Hospital North Pinellas hosted a hands-only CPR training at the Palm Harbor ER for the local community. This training taught attendees basic CPR skills that could help them in case of an emergency with their friends, family, or even within the community. The MEGA Heart was there for community members to walk through and learn about the different parts of the heart. Sunstar EMS was also in attendance to assist with the training.
6TH ANNUAL ASK THE EXPERTS Florida Hospital North Pinellas held the 6th Annual Ask the Experts event at Innisbrook Golf Resort and Spa on June 20th. With over 700 people in attendance, the event was a great success that was filled with health screenings, community vendors, a sit-down dinner and physician Q&A panel.
EMPLOYEE EVENTS THE WHOLE CARE EXPERIENCE Most of you have now been through The Whole Care Experience training that all 80,000 Adventist Health System employees are going through this year. This experience was meant to be a fun, interactive learning to take you through where AHS is headed and bring our system together under one common mission, vision, values and set of services standards. We hope it was an enjoyable session for all of you. We are now focused on the sustainment of everything we learned, and you will be introduced to various initiatives by your department Director and the leadership team. Thank you for your commitment as we align ourselves to be Greater As A Whole.
OB FAREWELL RECEPTION As you all know, our Labor and Delivery services will be suspended as of July 5th. Florida Hospital North Pinellas Administration held a farewell reception for our OB team members for hospital employees to share their gratitude and well wishes with the team. The OB Department at Florida Hospital North Pinellas has been open for 25 years.
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EMPLOYEE EVENTS HOSPITAL WEEK
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lorida Hospital North Pinellas celebrated National Hospital Week with our Annual Hospital Week Cookout. Thank you to everyone who came out for lunch or dinner. We appreciate everything you do for FHNP and hope you enjoyed Hospital Week 2018.
NURSES’ WEEK
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urses’ Week 2018 was a great success with a full week of activities for our nurses. The week ended with our annual Nurses’ Week Awards Banquet. Congratulations to all of the nominees and recipients of our awards.
Grace Kleinfeld Award: Sam Garey, RN Physician Friend of Nursing: John Isaak, MD Friend of Nursing: Preston Bales CNA/Tech of the Year: Bill Lineberry
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EMPLOYEE SERVICE AWARDS
Florida Hospital North Pinellas recognized employees who reached milestone anniversaries over the last six months. Thank you for proudly serving FHNP, we are appreciative of everything you do. 30 Years of Service:
John (Mike) McLearen - Communications Specialist
25 Years of Service:
Carol Carmichael - Patient Access Representative Margaret (Peg) Luedke - Respiratory Therapist Jeanne Mustonen - Respiratory Therapist
20 Years of Service:
Luann Andrews - Admin Nursing Supervisor Jeffrey Golji - Medical Technologist Melissa Parker - RN Joan Stoeve-Decker - Medical Records Clerk Nancy Tartaglia - Lab Coordinator Deedra Vecsey - RN
15 Years of Service:
Andrew Dool - Pharmacy Tech Julie Garron - Robotics Coordinator Dorothy Walter - RN Denise Zumpano - Patient Access Representative
10 Years of Service:
Olivia Blaskivich - RN Adonica Burdon - Physician Office Coordinator Victor Dragon - Physician First Assist Victor Fanelli - PACS Application Specialist Fred Peace - Admin Nursing Supervisor
5 Years of Service:
Jamie Bandel - RN Shari Bizier - CNA Trevor Calrk - Paramedic Bruce Degre - RN Jose DosSantos - Paramedic Natalie Garcia - Medical Assistant Daniel Greive - Facilities Director Thomas Mazant - Assistant Director Education Sheri Myrick - Physician Office Representative Eric Olsen - CL Informatics Physician Liaison Rafaela Ramos - Case Manager Carole Upham - Administrative Support Associate Julia Williams - Administrative Support Associate Kevin Wuertz - Telemetry Tech
3 Years of Service:
Jeffery Arrendale - Respiratory Services Director Beti Barisic - Medical Technologist Maegen Barry - RN Jelena Belencan - Laboratory Assistant Ronald Brunk - RN Cindy Cheek - Radiologic Technologist Nicole Collins - RN Lisa Coyle - RN Ericka Ely - Ultrasound Tech Lisa Frauenhofer - CT Tech Samantha Garey - RN Team Leader Sharlyn Haseney - RN Team Leader Anthony King - Respiratory Therapist Linda Lavigne - LPN Vytautas Leita - Medical Records Clerk MaryAnne Mansfield - Mammo Tech Donnell Mitchem - Respiratory Therapist Amy Nauman - RN Team Leader Rhonda Ober - Unit Secretary Grazyna Piekarska - Pharmacy Tech Daniel Reynolds - Maintenance Engineer Tech Michelle Satchell - Patient Access Representative Sarah Singleton - Social Worker BSW Christa Turnbull - RN Cory Wilson - RN Ann Withers - RN
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