CurrentsTo Medical Center Employees:I wish to thank everyone who has volunteered to support the American Heart Association’s Lowcountry Heart Walk campaign. Our Business Development and Marketing department has done a great job in organizing Heart Walk events. The Heart Walk will be held Oct. 2 beginning at Liberty Square (next to the Aquarium) at 8 a.m. Heart Walk festivities will be held Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the MUSC Horseshoe including restaurants, baked goods, a dunking booth, karaoke competition, auctions, and other attractions. Numerous MUSC teams have been organized to participate in the walk and fund raising efforts. Top teams to date include the Department of Pharmacy, Riley’s Sweethearts, Drew and Ryan Efird, Heartbeat of MUSC and Noah Greenawalt. Slightly more than $12,000 has been raised to date toward MUSC’s $50,000 goal. Nannette Berensen of the Department of Pharmacy is the top individual Heart Walk fund raiser. For more information about the Heart Walk see www.muschealth.com/heartwalk or www.heartwalk.kintera.org/lowcountrysc. Also, the American Heart Association can be reached at 853-1597 and the Business Development and Marketing department can be reached at 792-7499. The Heart Association has supported MUSC with more than $9 million in research funding with more than $4 million since 1998. Thank you very much.
W. Stuart Smith
New PS chief advises ‘lock up your valuables’Updating attendees of the Tuesday hospital communications meeting on the 2004 Lowcountry Heart Walk, Betts Ellis, institutional relations administrator, said current contributions are $11,062 toward the Medical Center’s goal of raising $50,000 for the American Heart Association.“I urge you to look at the heart walk Web site, www.muschealth.com/heartwalk,” Ellis said. Top teams include Riley’s Sweethearts, Department of Pharmacy, Drew and Ryan Efird, Heartbeat of MUSC and Noah Greenawalt. The top fundraiser is Nannette Berensen. Ellis announced that Berensen will receive a $50 gift certificate from Just Fresh. Ellis noted that the Department of Pharmacy has raised more than $1,800, while its goal was $1,000. “So congratulations for a job well done,” he said. On Sept. 29, Heart Walk festivities will be held on the horseshoe, including a dunking booth, karaoke competition, auctions and other attractions. The 2004 Lowcountry Heart Walk will take place Oct. 2 at Liberty Square. Public Safety’s New Chief
Only six weeks on the job thus far, Dunbar said the Office of Public Safety has 39 officers and seven security officers who last year answered 94,000 calls for service, 58 percent of them from the hospital. “Right now that figure’s running about 67 percent directly out of this hospital,” he said. Dunbar noted that with the biggest complaint voiced to Public Safety being petty larceny of items valued at an average of $30 to $40, individuals at MUSC could help by making sure items of value are locked up or at least out of sight. He stressed the importance of giving more information when requesting an officer. He said there have been times when one officer was requested and three were needed. “Call the dispatcher and tell exactly what you need an officer for, and we’ll get them there immediately.” MUSC Outreach
“Two to three professions are presented in each classroom,” she said. Carullo featured photos of Frasier Elementary students who heard presentations from MUSC representa-tives on occupational therapy, sports medicine and nursing. “The students got to learn more about the duties and responsibilities of various employees through interactive demonstrations and a question and answer time,” she said. The middle school program features a tour of the MUSC campus and MUSC’s participation in a Charleston County School program with career clusters in the fall. Approximately 2,000 middle- school students come to the career fair at the North Charleston Convention Center, where 10 professions are represented. High-school programs include Shadowing Day, tours of the facility, RN Summer Camp, MUSC’s Nurse Your Career program, and the Post and Courier's Your Assignment Your Future program at the Charleston Convention Center, where high-schoolers can rotate through the booths and ask questions. A new program begun last year that really fills a gap is mentoring, Carullo said. Whereas other programs are short in duration, mentoring provides an ongoing resource in career exploration and preparation and offers real recruitment returns. “An early awareness of health care careers can truly lead students into the field,” Carullo said. The actual mentoring begins with a match based on the mentor application and the interests of their students. A pizza party followed by a brief workplace shadowing kicks off the program of online or virtual mentors, health science mentor, career specific mentor, general hospital mentor, personal mentor and group mentor. Students and mentors communicate throughout the year, and the students come back to the campus on Shadowing Day in February. Carullo said MUSC works closely with the Charleston County School District for the matching process, which stands a high chance of leading to a health career selection within one or two years. The school year 2004-05 plans include:
JCAHO Update—Point of Care Testing Lab Survey
“He basically asked for six closed medical records from every area of the hospital,” she said, noting the request was specific: two closed records from October, two closed records from January, and two from July. He wants to see the ordering of the test, the actual completion of the
test, and the documentation of the test in individual areas, she said.
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