Podcasts about mcleod health

In this episode, host Jim Jorgenson welcomes Dr. Jenna Swindler, Vice President of Pharmacy Services at McLeod Health System in South Carolina. Dr. Swindler shares her career journey and provides an overview of McLeod Health's pharmacy operations. The conversation dives into the critical role of "systemness" in multi-hospital organizations, highlighting how McLeod defines and implements this concept, particularly in pharmacy practices. Dr. Swindler discusses McLeod's comprehensive pharmacy strategy, its alignment with broader organizational goals, and its impact on patient outcomes and operational efficiency. She elaborates on fostering consistency across locations, collaborating with other departments, and ensuring medication access for underserved populations. The episode also explores how pharmacy services at McLeod support patients beyond dispensing medications, enhancing care from hospital admission to post-discharge.   Tune in for insights on advancing pharmacy's role in achieving health system excellence and improving patient care!

Unleashing Resilience: The Awesome Journey of Nick Destefano, Husband, Dad, and Resilient Leader! Nick Destefano (or "Awesome Nick D", as most call him) is a husband, dad, brother, professional leadership speaker, and the founder of the Chasing the Awesome Life Initiative: a program that teaches individuals how to embrace pain and fears so they can live life as resilient, confident, and awesome leaders. He serves as the Service Excellence Process Manager for McLeod Health. He has over 12 years of experience in providing service excellence and leadership training to thousands of individuals across the nation. Improving the human experience for all is his true passion. Nick knows that you have the ability to positively impact the world if you start with self-awareness and confidence. For this reason, he became a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, and coaches students and professionals on their unique talents and ways to maximize their potential. Nick also has the pleasure of serving as a national autism awareness trainer for Champion Autism Network (CAN). This is a passion project and volunteer endeavor that means the world to him, as his oldest son, Calvin, was diagnosed with Autism at the age of two and a half. Calvin has completely changed Nick's idea of resilience and leadership for the better! In his free time, you can find Nick drinking ALL the coffee, carrying a ruck, sandbag, or log on the beach, training for a marathon, or just loving life with his college sweetheart Megan, and two young sons, Cal and Coop!

On this episode of The ASHHRA Podcast, co-hosts Bo & Luke discussed workforce development and recruiting strategies with Kelly Hurt, VP of HR at McLeod Health in South Carolina. They tackled some tough scenarios and shared valuable insights. Here are 3 key takeaways from our discussion:1.       Separate Recruitment and Workforce Development: Kelly Hurt, VP of HR at McLeod Health, emphasized the importance of having dedicated teams for recruitment and workforce development. By focusing on both current and future talent needs, organizations can build a strong pipeline and ensure a skilled workforce for the future. 2.       Collaboration is Key: Kelly highlighted the need for collaboration across HR, marketing, and other departments to effectively implement workforce development initiatives. By working together, organizations can engage with schools, universities, and technical colleges, promoting career opportunities in healthcare and building relationships with prospective candidates. 3.       The Saucy Scenario: We delved into a challenging scenario involving a personal relationship between a CEO and an executive assistant. Kelly navigated this complex situation, emphasizing the importance of maintaining professionalism, protecting employees from adverse actions, and considering alternative solutions to create a healthy work environment.

In this episode of Becker's Healthcare Podcast, join host Molly as she interviews Rachel Gainey, CEO of McLeod Clarendon and VP of McLeod Health. Rachel offers insights into the unique challenges facing rural hospital leaders in 2023 and shares a compelling story that underscores innovation and grassroots leadership in her hospital. She also discusses the strong community ties of McLeod Health Clarendon and how this closeness enhances the patient experience. Tune in to discover how rural healthcare providers like McLeod Health are making a difference in the communities they serve.

Simile Miller sits down with Madge Hamer to discuss McLeod Health's experience with DNV Healthcare.

Learn how supply chain and surgical teams improved data points to generate meaningful, relevant and actionable information through collaboration with all stakeholders including Finance and other departments. Speaker: BJ McCluskey, Director of Resource Optimization, McLeod Health

Just nine months ago, Laurel Hess launched hampr, an on-demand laundry service designed to take the stress out of busy families' lives. Who could have predicted the pandemic would hit the U. S. that same month and upend our normal way of life? Laurel Hess joined Jan Swift of Discover Lafayette to discuss her newest endeavor, Presto Health, a prescription delivery service made possible via an investment by Ochsner Lafayette General's Healthcare Innovation Fund II. The service launched on the 1st of December, 2020, and delivers medications to the patient’s home or preferred destination upon their discharge from Ochsner Lafayette General urgent care centers, emergency rooms, clinics, and telemedicine visits held in Lafayette Parish. The service is offered at no cost to the patient. In early March 2020, hampr's ideal client was a busy young mom with kids, who needed a break from the incessant laundry chores. By late March 2020, everything in the U. S. was shut down and the ideal demographic quickly shifted to the "young bachelor who needed help." At that same time, Ochsner Lafayette General's Cian Robinson (who has since moved on to McLeod Health in South Carolina) approached Hess to see if hampr could deliver prescriptions. Laurel recalls her first thought was "No, we're a laundry service." But she reexamined her platform and saw that they offered a "last mile delivery platform....we can deliver anything from A to B." We said, "Absolutely Yes!!" Hampr's team duplicated its platform and was able to get it up and running in six months. Called "Presto Health," the new prescription delivery service is a division of hampr. Having to stay HIPAA certified, its drivers are W2 salaried employees, unlike the contract laundry service workers hampr utilizes. Presto Health employees don't handle any personal health information on the patients they assist and are only given information as to the name of the patient and their address. "We are literally just a delivery platform," says Hess. Presto Health is notified by the pharmacy once a prescription is filled and paid for, and compensated per delivery on a volume-based scale. The service is currently operating in Lafayette Parish at this time and looks to expand into the broader Ochsner network statewide as well as other areas of the U. S. With a focus on patient and delivery driver safety, health the patient is texted when the prescription has arrived at their home and there is no interpersonal interaction. There is no need to sign for acceptance of the delivery, but Presto Health workers take a photo to prove the delivery has been completed successfully. Hospitals across the country are looking into similar prescription delivery programs, referred to as "Meds to Beds." With a big push on improving healthcare and patient outcomes, healthcare professionals are working to ensure that healthcare is delivered to people efficiently no matter where they are. It's always in the best interest of the hospitals to keep people on their prescribed medications to keep healthcare issues in check. Hess says, "A lot of people upon discharge from the hospital may not have access to a vehicle or may not be well enough to go pick up their medication. So making sure they stay on their prescribed medication is very important. It reduces recidivism rates for the hospital....so people aren't coming back with the same issue they just left with." Presto Health is the newest wave of healthcare reform. Ochsner Lafayette General providers are aware of the program and our hope is to get the word out to patients who will benefit from this service. To learn more about Oschner Lafayette General's Innovation Fund, visit https://www.lafayettegeneral.com/healthcare-innovation-fund. As an aside, Hess refers to Cian Robinson as her "fairy godfather. He sees opportunity everywhere. This program is something that hospitals across the nation are looking at.

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 258.  It is Thursday December 3rd  2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and Using Dropbox to Store Malware Stolen Data. This podcast is brought to you by Nwaj Tech, a Client Focused and Security Minded IT Consultant based in Central Connecticut.  You can visit us at nwajtech.com  Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird Xerox Releases Security Updates for DocuShare Healthcare 2021: Cyberattacks to Center on COVID-19 Spying, Patient Data iPhone Bug Allowed for Complete Device Takeover Over the Air Phishing targets US brokerage firms using FINRA lookalike domain Microsoft Office November 2020 updates fix Outlook, Skype issues FBI and Homeland Security warn of APT attacks on US think tanks Russian hacking group uses Dropbox to store malware-stolen data Email Account Breaches Reported by University of Minnesota Physicians and McLeod Health

Cathy Lee, Corporate Vice President of Patient Experience at McLeod Health, and Keith Schneider, Head of Consumer & Brand Division at PRC, discuss their presentation at the SHSMD connections 2019 annual conference in Nashville.

100% of OR Teams using a checklist and conducting debriefs. Mortality rates dropped by 35%. An economic return of 80,000 hours annually due to a reduction of time spent on each surgical case, equaling $4,000,000 saved. Another $3,000,000 earned per year via increased through-put. But perhaps most importantly, an estimated additional 500 lives saved per year across the state. Today we're talking with Dr. Michael Rose of McLeod Health in Florence, South Carolina, and Kate Hilton, the lead faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)'s Leadership and Organizing for Change virtual program, about how these changes were made possible. Enjoy!

Step inside the world of Cathy Lee, Vice President of Patient Experience, at McLeod Health in South Carolina. Cathy shares philosophies of “Start With Why” from motivational speaker, Simon Sinek, and how these ideas build a powerfully positive healthcare leadership team. Listen to the latest Mondays With Mel to understand how to uncover employees who add to your company’s culture and enrich the patient experience.   Audio mentions: Start With Why Simon Sinek Ted Talk Switch by Chip and Dan Heath Putting the Profit Chain to Work

Whether it’s discussing equal pay for women healthcare professionals, uncovering #MeToo narratives in the medical profession, or examining studies comparing women physicians’ and surgeons’ outcomes favorably to men’s, there has never been a more important time for crucial conversations to take place about women’s health. And that is why National Women’s Health Week will be the subject of this special Talk Ten Tuesdays broadcast. Other segments to be featured on the broadcast include: Tuesday Focus: Lisa Banker, chief physician advisor and vice president for case management at McLeod Health in South Carolina, reported on her perspective on women’s health issues. Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk: Laurie Johnson, senior healthcare consultant for Revenue Cycle Solutions LLC and ICD10monitor contributor, reported on the latest proposed codes for women’s health. CDI Report: Kathy Murchland, manager of CDI for Kettering Health Network in Dayton, Ohio, reported on her career transition from an inpatient coder to successfully rebranding the facility’s CDI department as “Documentation Excellence.” Women’s Health Report: Vinita Manoraj, MD CHCQM, medical director at Hackensack Meridian Health, reported on women’s health issues from her perspective. TalkBack: Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host Erica Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., reported on a disturbing news report about a medical student who was asked to perform a pelvic exam on a woman who had been anesthetized before having a surgical procedure. Talk Ten Tuesdays. More than just talk.™

Every patient receiving an implantable cardioverters defibrillators (ICDs) for primary prevention will be required to have an encounter for shared decision-making using an evidence-based decision tool, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). ICDs are often implanted in patients with chronic heart failure whose life expectancy is limited and whose quality of life tends to decline as their heart failure worsens. CMS released a final decision memo for changes to the national coverage determination (NCD) for ICDs last Friday during American Heart Month. Reporting on this breaking news is Ronald Hirsch, MD, a RACmonitor contributing editor and the vice president of the Regulations and Education Group at R1 Physician Advisory Services. Other segments featured in this episode include: News Desk: Larry Field, DO, anchors the Talk Ten Tuesdays News Desk with the very latest healthcare news. Field is the treasurer of the American College of Physician Advisors. CDI Report: Total Knee Replacement: Lisa Banker, chief physician advisor and vice president for case management at McLeod Health in South Carolina, reports on how her facility approaches total knee replacement. In her role, Dr. Banker serves as a physician leader. Coding Report: California Health Information Association Past President Gloryanne Bryant returns to report on the availability of three programs from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to promote awareness of heart disease. Mental Health Report: Last Wednesday's shooting at a Florida high school – the 17th incident of gunfire at an American school this year – brings us to the subject of mental health. H. Steven Moffic, MD, the nationally renowned psychiatrist, reflects on the issue of mental health. Talk Ten Tuesdays. More than just talk.™

My guests for Episode #289 are Kathleen Sharp, MBOE, LSS MBB, now the Director of Optimization at McLeod Health, and David Schoenwetter, D.O., FACEP, a Medical Director at Geisinger Medical Center. They are joining me to talk about the innovative Geisinger Mobile Health Paramedic program that they developed and piloted with Lean thinking throughout. Kathleen and David will discuss why it was important to engage stakeholders in innovation, how they viewed and addressed resistance to change, why it was important to test the idea in practice, and why it was important to measure results. They also discuss their lessons learned and their challenges along the way. This WSJ article has a nice summary of the program: "Paramedics Aren't Just for Emergencies." "In the Geisinger pilot program, mobile health visits can be requested by a patient's primary-care doctor, a cardiology clinic, or after an emergency room or hospital discharge. Patients who frequently visit the ER are offered the option of being seen at home by a paramedic as an alternative to an ER visit and potential hospital admission, especially for conditions that can be treated at home if caught early." I hope you enjoy the episode.

On today's episode of the Patient Flow Podcast, Lee Wallace, Director of Patient Flow at McLeod Health System in South Carolina tells us about his start as a paramedic and his first hand knowledge of the importance of getting patients in the right place as quickly as possible.