CARTI Connect | Fall 2022 • Edition 2

RESPIRATORY ETIQUETTE – Report any symptoms or exposures to Occupational Health before coming into work. If you sneeze or cough, cover your mouth and nose with a tissue. Dispose of the tissue immediately. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve or elbow, not your hands. Wear a mask (KN95 or N95) if you have respiratory symptoms even if cleared by Occupational Health. Wash your hands or use hand sanitizer often and especially after coughing or sneezing.

PROTOCOL REMINDERS – Masks are still required by everyone in public spaces and anywhere that patients can see you. If entering or leaving facility by The Bistro or anywhere on the first floor, you must have a mask on while in that public space. Patients are required to have masks on at all times including the infusion area except when they are eating. If there is a need for a patient to have an infusion treatment and they are unable to wear a mask due to respiratory illness, etc. they will need to be placed in a private infusion room or isolated from other patients. Visitors must have masks on at all times while in the facility including the infusion center and visitors are not allowed to eat or drink while in the infusion rooms.

TEAM MEMBERS WITH POSITIVE COVID – You may return to work if:

• At least 7 days have passed since symptoms first appeared and if two negative rapid tests are obtained 48 hours apart and within 48 hours of returning to work, and

• At least 24 hours have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications, and

• Symptoms (cough, shortness of breath) have improved.

IN LAYMAN’S TERMS – you will quarantine for a minimum of 7 days, test on day 5 with a rapid test, if negative, test again on day 7, if negative – you can return on day 8. If you test positive on day 5 or 7, you will quarantine for full 10 days and return to work on day 11. You must wear a mask at all times and separate yourself for meals for full 10 days even if cleared to return to work. The standard PTO/EIB policy for sick leave will apply. First 24 hours is PTO or unpaid, then EIB can be used if available.

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CARTI CHEERS FOR PEERS

We’ve made the CARTI Cheers nomination form digital! Easily commemorate your peers that are consistently exhibiting our CARTI core values. Supervisors will be notified of the nomination and determine the distribution of the CARTI Coins accordingly.

Would you like to recognize a team member? You can now submit a “shout out” on CARTINET. Responses will be shared with the team member’s supervisor and shared on our Recognition page.

You can find both of these tools under our Team Member tab and under the Recognition listing.

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QUEST MATES

Quest is CARTI’s new team member onboarding voyage to strengthen their confidence, influence, and commitment. CARTI Quest includes welcome and culture training through orientation, compliance through MedTrainers, ongoing feedback through surveys and SWOT Analyses and clarification and connection through quarterly connects to boost knowledge of benefits, performance and engagement, and development opportunities.

QUEST COHORTS - Cohorts will be grouped by month. Cohorts will attend Quest Connects to build community.

QUEST CONNECT

1st Quarter – New team member feedback

2nd Quarter – Maximizing Your total rewards: benefits, retirement, and wellness

3rd Quarter – Understanding performance management & success metrics

4th Quarter – Promoting development opportunities & fostering engagement

YOUR ROLE AS A QUEST MATE:

To have a positive influence on new team members’ initial experience at CARTI by welcoming and introducing them to your crew, sharing your knowledge and expertise, helping them access and maximize their resources, and inspiring continuous improvement while navigating organizational changes.

As a Quest Mate, you should:

• Be a peer colleague with the new team member.

• Be a positive influence within your team; demonstrating engagement and commitment to your work.

• Be eager to educate new team members; sharing your knowledge and expertise.

• Show initiative, compassion, and confidence in your role and on your team.

• Be a role model for CARTI Values and be in good standing at CARTI.

• Have a passion for inclusion; respecting team members’ unique contribution.

INTRANET

DAISY AWARD

We are so excited to award our second ever DAISY Award here at CARTI! STEPHANIE CLARK IS DESCRIBED AS A TRUE TEAM PLAYER THAT TACKLES EVERY ASSIGNMENT WITH GRACE. “She always puts her patients first and holds their care at the highest regards. She’s built trust – not only amongst her co-workers-but within other departments as well. She eagerly accepts new challenges and has helped develop new processes. When new processes are developed, she’s often the first to be an early adapter. She loves connecting with patients and being part of resolute teamwork. She is a true example of CARTI values. She comes to work every day with a purpose.” Even by her patients’ and her patients’ families, she is described to be special, patient, kind, and gentle. Not only does she go above and beyond when easing concerns with patients, she treats them like family. She keeps her patients informed and updated, while also giving realistic expectations. SHE GIVES HER PATIENTS HOPE.

THE NEXT DAISY AWARD WINNER

Each quarter, CARTI will recognize a DAISY honoree. One team and one leader will also be recognized annually during the Nursing Excellence Awards.

For more details on the next nomination round please contact Amy Ehrhardt at 501.906.3099

STEPHANIE CLARK, RN

IMAGING SERVICES

We have expanded Imaging services in multiple locations and modalities. These include expanded days of operation at Russellville PET, screening mammography and ultrasound services, in Pine Bluff.

CARTI IMAGING SERVICES OFFERED BY LOCATION

• CARTI has expanded access to PSMA PET to include CCC, NLR, Russellville, and Pine Bluff. CARTI is able to offer Auxmin PETs in El Dorado at this time.

• CARTI has Plavicto Lu-177 PSMA therapy available for prostate cancer patients at CCC at this time and is working to be able to offer this in Pine Bluff.

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FOUNDATION

PATIENT ASSISTANCE FUND

In an ongoing effort to be patient-centered, the CARTI Patient Assistance Fund was established through CARTI Foundation. This fund is supported 100% by donations. The generosity of our donors and team members enables us to raise upwards of $750,000 annually for this fund.

CARTI is committed to reducing barriers to care. Our resource coordinators provide specialized services designed to facilitate treatment and improve quality of life for our patients and their families. Areas of assistance for those who qualify include:

CARTI TEAM GIVING CAMPAIGN You Are The Difference

This past spring the Foundation launched the annual CARTI Team Giving Campaign and through the generosity of a record-breaking number of team members, more than $100,000 was raised for our patients.

Team members gave to the Patient Assistance Fund, The Bridge project, research, nursing and specific CARTI locations. This diversity of funding shows the passion we all feel towards a specific area of need.

“When I pass the digital screen at CARTI and see the list of CARTI team members that support me and other patients being treated here, my hope is lifted. Thank you for making a difference in the lives of so many of us going through this cancer journey.” – CARTI Patient

It is not too late to give to the CARTI Team Giving Campaign. The campaign runs through June 30, 2023. You can donate through payroll deduction or make a one-time gift.

Thank you to everyone who participates in some way to make the Patient Assistance Fund a reality for our patients! For more details on how to get involved, please contact the Foundation at 501.296.3406 or email us at CARTIFoundation@CARTI.com.

*COMING SOON: All of these services will be offered in one location at The Bridge.

If you are interested, please contact Michaela Johnson, Michaela.Johnson@CARTI.com or 501.660.7616.

Thank you for being CARTI Committed!

FESTIVAL OF TREES

THANK YOU to those that attended or volunteered and helped make the 46th Annual CARTI Auxiliary Festival of Trees a success. This year’s event was a tremendous success, raising more than $70,000 for patient assistance at CARTI.

On behalf of the cancer patients of Arkansas, thank you for helping CARTI continue to provide leading-edge, patient-centered care.

SAVE THE DATE FOR FESTIVAL OF TREES 2023

NOVEMBER 16-18

FOUNDATION WAYS

DID YOU KNOW….

TO GIVE

You can support CARTI while you shop! Every time you shop on Amazon or at Kroger, you can make difference for CARTI’s patients and programs.

AmazonSmile is operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to CARTI Cancer Center. Eligible products are marked “Eligible for AmazonSmile donation” on their product detail pages.

HERE’S HOW TO SHOP AMAZON AND GIVE BACK TO CARTI:

On your first visit to AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), you are prompted to select a charitable organization from our list of eligible organizations. You can change your selection at any time.

If you already use AmazonSmile and want to change your charitable organization to CARTI:

1. Sign in to smile.amazon.com on your desktop or mobile phone browser.

2. From your desktop, go to Your Account from the navigation at the top of any page, and then select the option to Change your Charity. Or, from your mobile browser, select Change your Charity from the options at the bottom of the page.

3. Select CARTI as your new charitable organization to support.

HERE’S HOW TO SHOP KROGER AND GIVE BACK TO CARTI:

Kroger Community Rewards makes it easy to give back…all you have to do is shop at Kroger and swipe your Plus Card! Kroger will donate a percentage of your purchases to CARTI Cancer Center.

Here’s how to link your Kroger Plus card to CARTI: Register at https://www.kroger.com/ and select CARTI to benefit from your grocery shopping!

1. If you are already a Kroger Plus member, sign into your account in the upper right corner.

2. If you are not yet a Kroger Plus member, create an account and sign up in upper right corner.

3. From My Account, select Community Rewards

4. Search for CARTI (Organization Number KS971) and select us as your organization

CARTI INFORMATION

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

We have expanded CARTI Environmental Services (EVS) to Conway and Russellville. In relation to this we will also be expanding the CARTI EVS team to meet this increased demand. There are a few new positions posted if you know anyone who might be interested in joining the team, please reach out to Barry Jefferson and/or encourage them to apply.

We have added some additional leaders on the EVS team as well to assist with this expansion of services.

JOB SHADOWING AT CARTI

Please remember unpaid job shadows and unpaid interns have an application to be approved, prior to being onsite. This includes running a background check, immunization records sent to Occupational Health and completion of an application and other HR forms. Please allow enough time for these nonemployees to be screened, matched to a CARTI Liaison and their experience to be approved. For more information contact Beth Kutsch at 501.906.2679.

Paid interns require a requisition to be made and the typical application process (apply through Kronos) like a new hire. For more information contact Darcy Dillard at 501.296.3422.

FACILITIES

We have completed an organization-wide ergonomics improvement plan in the Lab areas throughout our organization. Thank you to everyone who played a role in making this happen as this has already made a significant positive impact for our Lab teammates.

We are working to add motorized door operators on the 3rd and 4th floor at CCC for patient access from the front waiting rooms. We have 16 doors total that need to be motorized and a portion of these doors have been changed out. Our plan is to add these at a rate of two per month until this work is completed.

PARKING PLAN FOR LITTLE ROCK

We continue to work towards finalizing the plan to identify parking spots, for patients coming to Little Rock, which will provide them with a parking space close to the entrances especially for our patients that have trouble with mobility.

SECURITY

We have brought many of our security services in-house to CARTI Security, and will be adding new team members to assist in this capacity.

If you have a security concern or question, please feel free to contact Conor Hayes at extension 6666.

IMPROVING PATIENT EXPERIENCE!

Do you have any ideas for improvement involving the patient experience, team member experience, etc.? Submit your ideas in our Idea Bank on the CARTI Intranet.

CARTI GRANT

ARKANSAS

CANCER COALITION GRANT

Today’s research is the standard of care for tomorrow!

The Research Department, in collaboration with the Radiology Department, is proud to announce that we have received a grant from the Arkansas Cancer Coalition (ACC) to expand our lung cancer screening program. Lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in Arkansas, and in alignment with our goal to “not leave any cancer patient behind,” we are focused on preventing deaths related to lung cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage. Five-year survival rates can exceed 70% when lung cancers are detected at an early stage.

As part of our screening program, eligible patients will undergo a smoking cessation program, a low dose computed tomography (LDCT) and will be invited to participate in a research study for a blood-based screening test. We are currently enrolling smokers and former smokers aged 55-77 (Medicaid/Medicare 5077) with a 30 pack year smoking history (20 pack year for Medicaid/Medicare) who have not, and are not, receiving treatment for lung cancer.

If you have any interested patients, please have them talk to their oncologist and complete the Lung Screening order form in the EMR, or they can call the Lung Screening line at 501.906.4454. Thank you for supporting this Lung Screening Program, we look forward to progress!

As of November 18, 297 patients had been treated by CYBERKNIFE. Congrats to everyone who has played a role in helping this be so incredibly successful!

We have expanded our SPACEOAR placement days in Little Rock and added this service to Pine Bluff to better meet the growing demand for this service. We are also the only Center of Excellence for SpaceOAR in the state.

We continue to recruit Medical Physicists and we currently have openings for our Searcy and El Dorado locations. If you know anyone who might be interested in joining the CARTI family, please contact Scott Yakoubian at 501.296.3204.

Left to Right: Jeremy Land, Nita Dodge, Jennifer Sawyer, Kim Moix, Shakeylla Allen, Dr. Sam Makhoul, Dr. Don Norwood, Carla Randall, Misti Harvey, Leah Ann Browner and Adam Head.

CARTI HAPPENINGS

ENGINEERING

Our engineering team members participated in educational opportunities to train them to service and support much of the new technology investments CARTI has made over the last several months. We have and will continue to make every attempt to do this in a manner which will not inhibit or encumber our operations. Having said that, even with the most elaborate planning and preparation, unfortunately there may be things that come up which are outside of any of our control (as is often the case with the incidents and occurrences our engineers respond to) and so I ask for your patience and understanding during the next few months as this training is critical to our long-term success and continued ability to support our large capital investments and expansion projects. If there are any questions/concerns related to this, please reach out to me by calling 501.296.3279.

Sincerely, Jim Beaty, Director of Engineering

CARTI RESEARCH

DEPARTMENT

ARKANSAS

PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATES

Arkansas

Thank You!

INSTYLLA STUDY: #1 SITE IN THE NATION

The CARTI Research Department would like to highlight Dr. Edgar St. Amour, study coordinator Kelsey Williams, and the Instylla Study. This clinical trial reviews the Instylla Hydrogel Embolic Systems (HES) Compared with Standard of Care Transcatheter Arterial Embolization (TAE) / Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization (cTACE) for Vascular Occlusion of Hypervascular Tumors. CARTI has registered 13 patients on this study, and enrolled 12, acting as the #1 site in the nation on this clinical study. To learn more about this frontline technology that we are utilizing here at CARTI, visit instylla.com

Left to Right: Kelsey Williams, Dr. St. Amour, Michele Hitt, Nicole Martin, Bethany Lackey, Raven Jackson, and Jordon Boyles.

Pathology Associates became CARTI’s pathology group beginning September 1, 2022. CARTI staff who helped with this transition: Bethany Lackey, Kim Moix, Rhonda Wilson, Amy Ehrhardt, Manda Wood, Jennifer Payne, Lisa Langston, Charles Manning, Ryan Calloway, James Hines, Sharon Morgan, Stephanie Robbins, and LaToya Meredith.

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RADIATION AND DOSIMETRY SCHOOLS

WE GRADUATED OUR 40TH RADIATION THERAPY SCHOOL CLASS IN 2022

If you have been involved in this in any capacity over the past 40 years, please know we appreciate your contributions in getting our program where it is today and helping take us into the future. This is a milestone worth celebrating and one we should all be proud of!

Our first Medical Dosimetry Clinical student has also started through our partnership with Southern Illinois University. His name is Michael Hall and he will be based out of CARTI’s North Little Rock location. Michael comes to us from Hot Springs.

INTRANET

WHAT’S NEW

We now have Leadership Blogs on CARTINET! Our Leadership Blog highlights a few of the CARTI leaders and their success stories with Team Member Engagement. If you haven’t already, go check it out as well as the other features we offer including ASK THE CEO, RECOGNITION, IDEA BANK, MEET NEW TEAM MEMBERS AND WORK ANNIVERSARIES!

Our 41st class has started and so if you see four new team members, please say hello.

Do you have any ideas for improvement involving the patient experience, team member experience, or other? Submit your ideas in our Idea Bank on the Intranet. Do you want to submit something into the next newsletter? Send your submissions to Michelle.Odom@CARTI.com.