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American Medical Group Association
 
AMGA conference
As 2014 AMGA board chair, Howard Graman, MD, joined the country's prominent medical group leaders to discuss the future of health care.

Dr. Graman's remarks during the conference centered on our need to address the variation in the delivery of health care as a way to reduce both costs and harm to patients.

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Epic Ambulatory
Summer go-lives
Five clinics are in scope for an August/September Epic go-live.

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PatientConnection
Activations update
Our PatientConnection Contest continues through the end of June with the goal of 50,000 patient activations. As of May 22, there are 32,131 total activations.
PeaceHealth News
 
A news site just for you
Your new website, The Caregiver, makes it easy to get PeaceHealth news from anywhere, including your smartphone and tablet.

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Dr. Howard Graman
During last month's MGLT meeting, Oregon West's dyads relayed the need for an Epic refresher in OWN. These clinics, after all, were the pioneers in bringing Epic to PeaceHealth Medical Group.

I'm pleased to report that PHMG's team responded swiftly to their request.

Epic ambulatory project manager Tina Hoffman, with a team of 12 education and PDI caregivers, quickly developed and deployed a process that is comprehensive, nimble and customizable to the specific clinic's needs. Training, education and reinforcement through individual shadowing take place within each clinic. While some clinics are now receiving this refresher, rollouts and implementation throughout OWN will continue until early September.

During the up to four-week training time for each clinic, the support team identifies how best practices, new tools, documentation and workflows may be implemented to streamline the daily process for providers and caregivers, including front desk staff. Super users are also in place to help sustain the training efforts.

This refresher for Oregon is expected to result in increased efficiencies for providers and clinical caregivers enabling them to complete their work during the day along with increasing patient volumes. Additionally, our goal is to enable MAs to work to the top of their scope.

After training concludes, the effort will continue north to offer similar efficiency support to the Northwest and Columbia Networks.

2014 Pulse Survey
Provider Experience Pulse Survey closes soon
Our online Pulse Survey continues through end of day Monday, May 26.

This is a brief, confidential survey in follow-up to the survey in 2012. PHMG providers and Advanced Practice Clinicians received an email on April 28 with a link to log into the survey. If you need assistance, please contact Greta Beard or Pattie Washburn. For more information, please read the Pulse Survey FAQ.

Not a provider? The Caregiver Experience Pulse Survey is also open through May 26.

Provider Survey completion data (through May 20)
 

Community
Surveyed
Completed
Percent
Cottage Grove
23
10
43%
Eugene/Springfield
221
98
44%
Florence
50
32
64%
OWN
294
140
48%




Longview
118
53
45%
Vancouver
192
50
26%
COL
310
103
33%




SE Alaska
51
19
37%
Whatcom
143
65
45%
NWN
194
84
43%
TOTAL
798
327
41%
Spirit of Giving
Thanks to more than 1,680 caregivers from every corner of PeaceHealth for raising nearly $700,000 ... and counting ... in this year's Spirit of Giving caregiver campaign.

This year's campaign was PeaceHealth's first invitation to caregivers system-wide to contribute financially to one of our seven foundations. It featured 19 "passion" areas to which caregivers could direct their gifts.

What were the most common passions? Where will the gifts go?

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