CORE MEETING Minutes Tuesday, January 5th 2009

Topics for discussion:

8:00- Dr. Levine

1. Doctors putting in orders: core staff voiced concerns that Doctors aren’t consistently writing orders for the patients that they bring over to core. This does not include drop in’s. Dr. Levine agreed and will speak to doctors.

2. Core/Dr. Levine meetings with core staff to discuss wound care patients:
A. Doctor Levine agrees that a meeting is necessary. He will look at his schedule and let us know what day will work for him. These meetings will be bi-monthly, Start and end time has not yet been decided.
B. Pat brought up that there should be 1 doctor in the clinic that will become “the wound care” Doctor. Dr. Levine stated that he has been working on it. He also pointed out that you can not force a doctor to assume that position.

3. Drop in’s and the impact it has on the core: Pat has been tracking drop in’s on a monthly basis. Looking at what day of the week we get the most drop-in. This is being done so that the core can be up-staffed on high volume days.

4. Cindy brought up discussing patients and HIPPA Law. She reminded us that if she can
Hear us talking, so can all of the patient’s that are sitting in the lobby.. It was a great reminder for us (staff feel that they do good and then we start to slip again). Core agreed that we need to cognizant of where we talk regarding patients, as well as the volume of our voice.

8:30 New Matrix Changes: New coding for injections and CORE procedures.
We ran out of time to discuss this. Will be placed on the agenda for our next meeting

8:50 Immunizations :
We also ran out of time to discuss this. Will discuss at next meeting