Thursday, March 28, 2024

Hospital Board plans for Envisioning the Future

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CHELAN – The Lake Chelan Community Hospital and Clinics board held its monthly meeting last Tuesday, July 24 to go over the Board Retreat, general updates and the quality and patient care services data.

This year the Board Retreat will take place on August 8 and 9 in Howard's on the River in Pateros. “Envisioning the Future” is the title for this year’s retreat, it goes along with Lake Chelan Hospital and Clinics vision of what will happen in the next 10 years.

Day one of the retreat attendees will be provided with general background information while the second day the attendees will gain more knowledge on what is coming in the future for LCCHC.

The agenda is being finalized and little details are being handled, 14 attendees will be at the retreat this year.
Interim CEO Steve Patonai, informed the board that EMS will not be leasing the space at the Fire Station from Chelan Fire and Rescue anymore. Patonai notified Fire Chief Tim Lemon of this decision and with this, EMS crew will stay at the hospital where accommodations have been made for the crew to sleep and operate.

CNO Donna Strand had a few updates for the board, first off several graduate RNs have been hired. One has already arrived and has been through orientation, soon another one will arrive.

The staff managed very well all 4th of July incidents, it was a busy day and Strand said she was very proud of them.

Strand also mentioned radiology extension hours, which will allow for quicker diagnostic exams. Radiology will now open 21 hours Monday to Thursday and 24 hours Friday and Saturday.

A special presentation was given by Strand about the work that has been done in the hospital in order to keep patients there and she showed the data that she has collected.

Strand has been working at the hospital for almost one year and with the help of everyone else in the hospital she has fixed some of the issues that were of great disadvantage when she first arrived. The two biggest changes at the hospital have been staffing number changes and less patient turnover because of spacing.

In the Emergency Department, a new concept called Direct Bedding has been implemented. “The patient arrives, they are taken to the room and we bring registration to the bedside to register them, so we can imminently start taking care of them,” said Strand.

In other business:
Credentialing of the following staff was approved:
•    Kenneth Huang, ARNP
•    Locums
•    Family Medicine/Urgent Care
•    Beverly LaMar, ARNP
•    Provisional
•    Family Medicine
•    Benjamin Strong, MD
•    Re-appointment
•    Tele-Radiology
•    Richard Mitchell, MD.
•    Re-appointment
•    Tele-Radiology
•    Barbara Cronin, CRNA
•    Re-appointment
•    Anesthesia
•    Vanessa Willey, CRNA
•    Re-appointment
•    Anesthesia
•    Louise Simons, MD
•    Re-appointment
•    Family Medicine/ED Dept.
•    Kara Wages
•    Medical Student
•    Keri Bergeson, MD
•    Joshua Policella
•    Medical Student
•    Megan Guffey, MD

Erik Volk from WIPFLi presented the Board the 2017 Audited Financials

CEO Recruitment Update:

The Board is still interviewing and have narrowed the field down to the top two candidates. Those two candidates will be interviewed on August 2 and 3 and August 6 and 7 in Executive Sessions.

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