Hi everybody. Welcome to this week's video message. I've got a really great
story I'd like to share before we get any further in the little video this
morning. Renee Dills who's an occupational therapist assistant that
works at Home Health. I received an email about a really great deed that she did
for one of our patients. From what I understand, Renee was visiting with
one of our patients in their home while she was performing her duties on home
health, and she's recognized pretty quickly the patient was low on food.
The patient's on home health, so not able to get out and get more groceries.
So she took it upon herself to go home that evening, and cook the patient a big pot
of vegetable soup and also a big pot of chili. Then she delivered it to the
patient the next day. Certainly we wouldn't ask this of Renee, or any of any
of our other staff but really great gesture on her part. It shows great
service, great compassion. Thanks Renee for doing that. I'm sure you made that
patient's day, if not week and made a really big difference in their life. So
thank you again for doing that. A couple other things I want to give you an
update on. One is our flu shot vaccinations. We had expected that the supplier to
deliver those really two weeks ago at this point. They're still not in yet, so
Mary Oyler is keeping a close eye on our flu shot vaccinations, as soon as we get
those, we'll be able to set up flu shot clinics. But we don't have them in hand
yet. It's really a manufacturer's delay. We're anxiously waiting to get those
vaccinations in, so we can start to do flu shots and provide you that extra
protection. To protect your family, yourself, and also our patients. I also wanted to
comment on and provide some additional understanding for you about our employee
pharmacy benefit. As you're probably aware by now if you do receive some of
your prescription medications from our pharmacy here at the hospital, we're
having to discontinue that for a short period of time.
Our move to Meditec expanse as well as some requirements from the Missouri
Board of Pharmacy have prevented us from issuing those employee prescriptions
after December 1. So to have a clean cut off between now and December 1, I think
November 15 is about the last date we can refill an employee prescription. We do
intend and we'll work really hard to bring that benefit back,
but we've got to get this Meditec expanse product going
and off the ground, and also make sure doing everything we need to do to comply
with Missouri Board of Pharmacy regulations. We don't want to do anything
that would compromise our ability to provide medications to our patients here
in the hospital. So I apologize, it's a bad deal.
It affects a lot of you, it affects me personally so I get it.
We do want to bring that benefit back as soon as possible, there is just going to
be a little bit of time between now when we get some additional software that
we're going to need to be able to provide that service to staff going
forward. And then finally, you're gonna see some communications a little bit
later this week from Mike Gaul in IT to let you know about some additional
measures we're going to, to keep our guest network here at the hospital
secure. We've got a lot of patient information out there. One way someone
could potentially hack into our systems would be through our guest network. So,
here in a few days, IT's going to implement a process by which
you have to ask for and be prescribed a password to get onto our guest network.
We're gonna make that process as simple as possible. We're going to post
information so that you can get on the guest network if you need to, our
patients and our visitors can get on the guest network. But we do need to do some
things to secure that better, and secure our guest network better. It'll be a
small hassle but it's really if you've gone anywhere else and used a guest
network it's pretty common. So it's really a fairly common security measure
that we're gonna implement here in the coming days. So expect more information
from that in the days ahead from Mike Gaul in IT. That's all I have for you this
week. Hope your week goes great. Please let me
know if there's anything I can do for you. This is your hospital.
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