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To Medical Center Employees:

Recently Dr. Pat Cawley, medical center chief medical officer and executive director designate, updated the management team on the MUSC Performance Excellence initiatives, as mentioned in previous Currents newsletters. These initiatives are aimed at reducing costs while providing high quality care. Dr. Cawley's presentation can be located at http://tinyurl.com/ampx99s.

One component of MUSC Performance Excellence includes our work with the Huron Group. Among other things, this work involves a comprehensive assessment of virtually all aspects of the medical center's clinical and administrative areas. The focus is upon enhancing operational efficiency, including establishing targets aligned with best practices, for staffing of more than 300 organizational units (i.e., cost centers).

As a reminder, town hall meetings have been scheduled throughout the month of March. The town hall schedule is included in this newsletter. There will also be a number of department-based town hall sessions. Our goal is to increase town hall participation.

At this time town hall attendance is strongly encouraged, but not required. To enhance understanding of everyone's role in accomplishing our goals and to address questions, in the future attendance at conveniently scheduled town hall meetings will be required.

Finally, I have had the honor and pleasure of joining the MUSC leadership team at the beginning of January 2013, at MUSC President Ray Greenberg's request, following Stuart Smith's retirement. At the end of this month my job will be complete. Dr. Greenberg and the MUSC board of trustees selected an exceptional and visionary medical center executive director in Dr. Pat Cawley, and he will formally assume the position April 1. I have been extremely impressed with Pat's leadership skills and management talent. While the challenges being faced by the MUSC clinical enterprise and the health care industry are daunting, Dr. Cawley is the right person at the right time to address these challenges.

Kester Freeman
Interim Vice President of Clinical Operations
and Executive Director, MUSC Medical Center


Town Hall Meetings
March 8: 10 a.m., 2W Amphitheater; March 12: 10 a.m., Ashley River Tower; March 12: 1 p.m., Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium; 2:30 p.m., 2W Amphitheater; March 13: 6:30 p.m., ART; March 14: 7:30 a.m., 2W Amphitheater; 2 p.m., ART; 2 p.m., 2W Amphitheater; March 15: 10 a.m., 2W Amphitheater; March 18: 11 a.m., ART; 2 p.m., 2W Amphitheater; March 19: 7 a.m., ART; 10 am, 2W Amphitheater; March 20: 6:30 p.m., 2W Classroom, March 21: Noon, 2W Amphitheater

People–Fostering employee pride and loyalty
Wins
Jim Brook, Hollings Cancer Center Service Line administrator, announced that HCC received its Commission on Cancer Accreditation from the American College of Surgeons on
March 1.

Employee of the Month for March
Tameka Stevens, Children's Hospital Environmental Services, was recognized by a patient's family for the care and support she gave to their infant son who was a patient in the PICU and NICU. Their son, who passed away in November, remembered how Stevens shared her care and compassion by attending to their needs and showing kindness. Stevens was nominated by Sonia Muckenfuss.

Wellness update
Susan Johnson, Ph.D., Wellness Program director in the Office of Health Promotion, reminded managers that the new ordinance for the City of Charleston Smoke-Free Medical District to maintain MUSC as a tobacco-free campus is now in effect (as of March 1). Visit http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/tobaccofree/index.htm.

Johnson also spoke about the upcoming Push-up & up Challenge to support dropout prevention efforts and benefit Communities in Schools of the Charleston Area. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, April 13 at Marion Square (next to the Farmers Market).

It challenges teams of six people to compete to complete as many push-ups as possible in 30 minutes. Johnson challenged managers to establish unit/department teams. T-shirts will be available for the first team to register. Visit www.pushupandup.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1049976.

Announcements
The next meeting is March 19.

 

 

 

 

Friday, March 8, 2013


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