Cook County Health (CCH) received two major awards from the American Heart Association for its work in caring for patients who experience heart attacks and heart failure.
Good morning, today at 9 a.m. I’ll be live tweeting the Cook County Health and Hospitals System Board of Directors meeting for @CHIdocumenters. 🧵below
08:47 AM Jun 30, 2023 CDT
The meeting can be streamed at this link https://www.youtube.com/@cookcountyhealthboardstrea9701/streams
This is a link to this meeting’s agenda https://chicago.documenters.org/documents/agenda-95520/
Chair Taylor has called the meeting to order. The meeting is starting with employee recognitions, naming off new hires.
Cook County Health has been recognized by the Get with the Guidelines Stroke Achievement Award - more information on those guidelines here: https://www.heart.org/en/professional/quality-improvement/get-with-the-guidelines/get-with-the-guidelines-stroke/get-with-the-guidelines-stroke-recognition-criteria
Numerous other awards have been named, though there seems like there is a tech issue in which we are not seeing the slides the speaker is referencing.
Public testimony is next, but there have been no oral or written testimonies submitted by the public for this meeting.
Human Resources Committee Metrics are now being presented to the board by Valerie Amos.
According to Amos’ presentation 727 positions have been filled YTD, with CCH receiving an 82% offer acceptance ratio.
According to Amos, turnover rate is now at 5.1%, which is below the national benchmark.
Separations, including retirements and resignations, are trending down, currently at 287 individuals for the year.
Moving on to the Health Service Plan Update presentation by Dr. Yvonne Collins. This graph depicts current membership numbers for County Care plans. https://t.co/wswDylrepf
Dr. Collins is touching on redetermination, saying that in June over 60% of members went through with the process.
This is a look at call center work performance. Dr. Collins says some of the numbers are below standard because of staffing issues. https://t.co/hejMPXdFLa
Covid vaccination rates - almost 60% of “high risk” elders have received all their dosages of the vaccine.
After that presentation, the board approved meeting minutes for Audits and Compliance.
Quality and Patient Safety Committee, including Stroger Hospital and Provident Hospital Medical Staff appointments, reappointments, and changes are also approved.
Finance Committee Meeting, including contracts and procurement items and receive and file grant award-related items minutes are approved. This is a look at a few of those items listed. https://t.co/IpX9Lx9pEG
Moving on to Chair Taylor’s report, offering recognition to Dr. Kim who is moving on to serve as Dean of Penn State College of Medicine. The first Korean woman to take on this role.
More on Dr. Kim and her new role here: https://www.psu.edu/news/medicine/story/karen-kim-named-next-dean-penn-state-college-medicine/
Cardiology update by Dr. Doukky: he discusses some newer programs implemented including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (or stroke patients), Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair (for patients with micro/severe regurgitation)
Dr. Doukky calls to recognize the cardiologists who have performing the procedures mentioned above. https://t.co/VGbjEN6ZlA
CCH also recently launched a Heart Failure Service Line, providing heart failure specialists, CardioMEMs procedure to predict readmission in patients prone to heart issues. Soon they’ll launch mechanical support and a shock team for the sickest patients.
Last week, the hospital was recognized by the American Heart Association with their Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus award.
Board members have been discussing care accessibility for patients located on the south side/south suburbs, as well as “medically necessary” procedures that are eligible for reimbursement and if there are alternatives to ease financial burden on patients
Dr. Doukky says they have exploring designating a “point person” to streamline the process of referral for patients.
One of the board members suggested an initiative similar to one at Essence Fest, where mammograms are offered on the spot, at an unrelated event that already draws large crowds. She (speaker not unidentifiable online) said these types of initiatives meet people where they’re at.
The board is now going into closed session, approved at 10:46 a.m. This concludes the public portion of the meeting and my coverage today.