CORE MEETING MINUTES Tuesday 6/16/09

Wound Care Conference’s: is a meeting that is designed to create a “team” spirit among the wound care teams at all GH clinics. The purpose is to share challenging wound care cases, and get feedback and ideas from each other.

These Meetings will happen Bi-Monthly. Sheila will attend on the meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of every month and Pat will attend the meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. Pat and Sheila will be presenting a case in July.

Warm Transfer forms: Dr. Chapman and the other PCP’s have approved the form. Once the forms arrive at the clinic, each wound care team member will in-service the flow staff in their clusters.

CORE Work Flow
1. Drop In Records have been updated for the month of May. Drop In patients continue to climb and Wednesday’s still have the most drop in’s. Core team are still looking for ways to offload work on Wednesday
2. Wound care Records: This is a new tracking system that will be updated monthly. The data shows how many wound cares we see each month and what days of the week are the busiest. This new tracking system is critical in estimating our flow staff needs. So far this year the core has done “716” wound cares.
3. Wound care Data: not a new tracking system, but equally important to show core staff the progress we are making. This is a Coop wide tracking system. It entails
a. the length of time it takes to heal a wound.
b. How many active wounds we have
c. How many patients are getting healed with in the target area
d. How many ( year to date) current wound care patients we have and those that we have healed.

Burien is doing well in all categories. We have the 3rd highest amount of wound care patients throughout the coop. (Olympia and Northgate have the highest.)