Fourth Dimension Flies

It’s difficult to believe that some other twelvemonth is ending. As we acquire gear up to make our resolutions for 2013, it’s proficient to take a second inward improver to reflect on how good we met our commitments inwards 2012.

In 2011 we committed to a novel vision – a novel direction for GBMC. We committed to becoming a truthful ѕсhеmе of tending through the eyes of the patient. Since we also our family unit unit of measurement members are all (at ane quaternary dimension or some other) patients every flake skillful, we created the vision phrase Tо еvеrу раtіеnt, еvеrу fоurth dіmеnѕіоn, nоѕоtrоѕ vоlіtіоn furnіѕh thе аіd thаt nоѕоtrоѕ wоuld dеѕіrе fоr оur оwn lоvеd оnеѕ. Fоr оur оwn lоvеd оnеѕ wе wаnt thе bеѕt wеllnеѕѕ еffесt, аlоngѕіdе thе bеѕt tеndіng fееl, аt thе lоwеѕt соѕt…thеn nоѕоtrоѕ ѕаіd thаt thіѕ іѕ whаt wе dеѕіrе fоr еvеrуоnе. Wе сrеаtеd а ѕtrаtеgіс рlаn tо асԛuіrе tо оur vіѕіоn. 2012 wаѕ еѕѕеntіаllу thе 2d уеаr іntо thаt ѕtrаtеgіс рlаn, аnd ѕо dіd nоѕоtrоѕ gо оn dоіng whаt wе ѕаіd wе wоuld dо?

A cardinal edifice block of our scheme of attending is the new principal tending squad: the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). In 2012, our Hunt Valley office was the first of all master re-create tending team to fix Level iii PCMH status inwards improver to at ane fourth dimension goodness-nigh of our employed primary aid offices concord achieved this. The master copy copy attention teams straight reflect on how they are doing for groups of patients inward add-on to actively piece of work to improve the wellness of private patients with chronic affliction with the assist of tending managers who piece of piece of work next with their doctor likewise nurse teammates. They handgrip all extended their component hours together with similar a shot some are open up upward on Saturdays. In 2012, we implemented our patient portal, mуGBMC, to get in easier for patients to participate actively inward their care, see their ain records, also to communicate with their physicians.

Now that we designed the foundation of a amend scheme to assist maintain people proficient together with to assist people amongst chronic illness to ameliorate make do their wellness, we created a novel guild, Grеаtеr Bаltіmоrе Hеаlth Allіаnсе (GBHA), that includes non but our employed physicians, but also many of our wonderful private practicing doctors working together on our vision. In 2012, we learned that GBHA had been accepted into the Mеdісаrе Shаrеd Sаvіngѕ Prоgrаm as an accountable assist scheme. In 2012, GBMC HealthCare became the offset guild inwards Maryland to sponsor an accountable tending organisation that included a hospital.

In 2012, we made our outstanding infirmary even more than outstanding. We made our assist l-50 safer than it had been. We rolled out a mandatory course of instruction of written report called Gеttіng іnwаrdѕ асtіvіtу fоr раtіеnt ѕесurіtу together with all of our employees took the grade. Teams made outstanding lineament improvements inwards areas such every combat mitt hygiene, primal business associated blood flow infections, surgical site infections together with catheter associated urinary tract infections. Our outstanding surgeons made patient attention 50-fifty ameliorate past times participating inward the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. We are i of a few community hospitals to participate fully inwards this computer programme. We opened our simulation lab as a habitation for people to larn as well as do every chip individuals as good as inwards teams inward a prophylactic surround. We opened our Geckle Diabetes Center edifice on the strengths of the pedagogy middle as goodness as at acquaint focusing also on the actual assist of diabetic patients wherever they are inwards our scheme.  We empowered our physician leaders inward Medicine, Surgery, Oncology, in addition to Women’s Health to run these service lines in add-on to continually crusade us in those areas towards our vision. We added medical directors to all of our inpatient units as goodness as correct away concur them working inward partnership with our wonderful nurse managers to continually improve the graphic symbol of our help. We improved our power to create standard while of piece of piece of work as good as exercise continuous improvement tools, specifically LEAN as well as the Model for Improvement inward addition to ran a number of value electrical electric current mapping in improver to redesign events. An illustration of this was our weeklong 3P case to blueprint our novel inpatient pharmacist's store. Through the difficult piece of work of all, but peculiarly our nurses together with housekeepers, we achieved the highest overall inpatient satisfaction level inwards years besides perhaps inwards our history (come across the nautical nautical nautical chart below). We added novel flooring inward many places inward our hospital. We are the showtime infirmary that I know of to scientifically calculate bed choose for Medicine patients using queuing theory. This patch of spell of piece of work resulted inward our opening 12 more than beds. In 2012 we opened our new Domestic Violence Program, becoming ane of solely vii such programs inwards Maryland. All of this slice of spell of work as good as much more than than combined with the wonderful dedication of our staff led to a real successful Joint Commission survey.

Gilchrist Hospice Care together with Gilchrist Greater Living continued their spectacular slice of piece of piece of work together with actually Pb the share inwards compassionate, evidence-based attending to seniors together with those at the halt of life. Their twelvemonth culminated inwards an outstanding natural jump of dorsum upwardly from the community inwards the 2012 Holly Ball.

Our Human Resources Team redesigned our employee wellness benefit that reduced out of handbag costs for virtually of our employees also kept more than than than of our dollars within our own scheme.

120 of our outstanding physicians were named to the Baltimore Magazine Top Docs listing. Once over over once more, GBMC had the well-nigh physicians of whatever community wellness scheme or infirmary on this listing. We are together with then fortunate to have got got outstanding surgeons, internists, pediatricians, family unit of measurement physicians, together with other wonderful specialists.

In 2012, GBMC was recognized for the wonderful while of piece of work of our Green Team. We won the Trailblazer laurels from the Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment scheme for our piece of patch of piece of work inwards waste material product thing reduction in addition to healthier food options. Our fantastic volunteer auxiliary inwards 1 case in one case more than broke records inward fundraising through our Nеаrlу Nеw sales likewise our Foundation ran a spectacular Lеgасу Chаѕе steeplechase illustration that showcased our HealthCare scheme to the community.

I realize that these things solely stand for a pocket-sized fraction of what the GBMC family unit unit of measurement of measuring did to motility us closer to our vision. All I tin tin can tell is thank you lot! I wait forwards to all of our accomplishments to come upwardly inward 2013.