General Staff Meetings
JSUMC Medical & Dental Staff General Staff Meeting Summary: December 7, 2021
The following items were discussed. Further information is available from the Medical Staff Office, 732-776-3877.
Financial Report:
The Medical Staff made their final payment toward their HOPE Tower pledge totaling $1 million. Dr. Parker received a letter from Mr. Bob Garrett thanking the members of JSUMC’s medical and dental staff for their dedicated service and incredible generosity.
All Actions of the MEC can be accessed via Maestro. You can access by going through Maestro.
There is a Network-wide Privileging project unifying all of the privileges forms throughout all HMH hospitals. In development is the creation of a Centralized Credentialing Process to standardize and unify all of the initial credentialing and reappointment credentialing throughout the HMH network.
We moved from VMWare to Citrix - Contact the Physician Liaison Francine Mattis if assistance is needed. She can be reached at 908-675-3322.
The Epic Suspension Avoidance program has been implemented. There are currently only 8 suspensions.
The COVID Vaccine or approved medical or religious exemption is required at this time.
Flu vaccination is mandatory to have a medical or religious exemption. Deadline to provide documentation to the Medical Staff office is extended to January 13, 2022.
- Dr. Wahid Girgis is the new Chair of Department of Radiology
- Dr. Alan Colicchio became the new Chair of the newly created Department of Neurology
- Dr. Shabbar Danish became the new Chair of the newly created Department of Neurosurgery
The following Sections were created:
Under the Department of Psychiatry
- Tele-Medicine Section
- Addiction Medicine Section
- Digital Psychiatry Section
- Forensic Psychiatry Section
New Policies:
ALL POLICIES can be viewed by going to Maestro.
- Procedural Indications - Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty
- Procedural Indications - Elective Total Knee Arthroplasty
- ED Stat Consult Policy
Policies up for three year review WITH changes:
- Guideline for Institutional Minimal Procedural Volumes
- Surgical Necessity/Appropriateness
- Guideline for Incorporating Surgeon Specific Volumes in the Credentialing/ Recredentialing Process
- Guidelines for Care of the Adult Patient with Sepsis/ Septic Shock
JSUMC Medical & Dental Staff General Staff Meeting Summary: June 1, 2021
The following items were discussed. Further information is available from the Medical Staff Office, 732-776-3877.
Dr. Glenn Parker, Medical and Dental Staff President:
Dr. Parker, medical and dental staff president, took a moment to thank everyone at JSUMC who run all of our day to day operations. Dr. Parker expressed his gratitude to everyone for their tremendous amount of sacrifice, dedication, flexibility, and compassion demonstrated to our patients' care and treatment during the past year.
Vaccine Village has done an amazing and effective job keeping our team members and community protected.
Over the last six months, our Epic deficiencies and documentation are continuing to improve. This coincides with harmonizing the medical record to keep everything timely.
HCAHPS scores are somewhat improving. We need to continue to work on that by treating everyone with courtesy and respect.
The Academic Department of Neurology was created.
There are currently 1,725 members of the medical and dental staff, including allied health professionals, with another 35+ joining us in June.
Initiatives are ongoing regarding decreasing lengths of stay, as well as keeping expenses down.
FUTURE PROJECTS:
- Network core privileging relative to credentialing.
- Improving Notes with templates in an effort to decrease copy and paste.
- System-wide Bylaws revision. Some members of our medical staff at JSUMC are working on this.
- Increasing PA’s responsibility of practice parameters in the future.
Dr. Parker thanked the Medical Executive Committee and Officers during these initiatives as we work toward a cohesive medical staff and HMH system.
Dr. Kim Carpenter, Chief Medical Officer reported on the following:
Our response to COVID over the past 6 months has involved every one of us, trying to make it the best possible treatment and recovery as we could.
At this time, JSUMC has three positive COVID patients in house.
A new Epic initiative is the timely completion of documentation, including signing off. The initiative will be rolled-out in July. More information will be coming. Please look for further communication.
Dr. Carpenter spoke briefly about the new Gainsharing program.
Dr. Carpenter expressed his appreciation to the medical and dental staff and the leadership team here at JSUMC for their continued loyalty and engagement. Dr. Carpenter hopes to continue to work cohesively together.
The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.
Dr. Parker wished everyone a much healthier and happier summer than 2020.
JSUMC Medical & Dental Staff General Staff Meeting Summary: December 1, 2020
Below is a summary of the General Staff meeting that was held virtually on December 1, 2020. The following items were discussed. Further information is available from the Medical Staff Office, 732-776-3877.
- There are currently 1,716 members of the medical and dental staff, including allied health professionals.
- Dr. Harry Kopolovich is the new Chair of Emergency Medicine.
- Dr. John Tozzi is stepping down as Chair of Orthopaedics, after 20 years in that role. A search committee has been formed.
- The search for Chair of Neurosurgery is in its final stages.
- Flu vaccine documentation is due in the medical staff office by December 3. Those non-compliant will face administrative suspension on December 4.
- OpenNotes will go live on December 15, allowing patients to access their records through MyChart.
- Fit testing for N95 masks will continue in December. The questionnaire, which has been emailed to the medical staff, should be completed beforehand.
- Dr. Erler stated it has been a privilege to serve as President of the Medical and Dental Staff for the
- past 3 years, and as an officer for the past 15. He thanked the other officers, chairs, and hospital administrators for their tremendous support. He also thanked the medical and dental staff members for their hard work and dedication, especially this year while coping with the challenges of the COVID pandemic.
COVID-19 UPDATE:
- Two sessions regarding updates on COVID-19 were offered to the medical staff over the past two days. Following are some highlights:
- Positive cases are increasing in New Jersey. As of November 30, there were 85 positive patients at JSUMC.
- Keep your guard up. Follow social distancing; stay home if sick.
- Universal masking is required for patients and visitors. When caring for a patient who cannot wear a mask, team members and physicians need to wear eye protection.
- Get your flu shot by December 3.
- JSUMC command center has reopened 24/7; call ext. 62370.
- COVID 2.0 Playbook was created and distributed throughout the HMH network.
- Additional fit testing for N95 masks will be done in Lance Auditorium, 8am to 4pm, on December 10, 16, & 17.
- NJ has designated HMH as a COVID-19 vaccine partner for the first phase, with a potentially limited supply available before the end of this year.
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS:
- JSUMC maintains two medical school affiliations – HMH SOM and St. George's University SOM.
- HMH SOM is continuing to work through levels of independence and full accreditation.
- 90 students are starting clerkships on December 21.
- 60 students are starting advanced clinical rotations and specialty immersion rotations in 2021.
- 17 of 60 students participated in early match; 7 matched at JSUMC.
- SOM is working to streamline the faculty appointment process.
- JSUMC now employs 170 residents and fellows in 16 accredited programs.
- Fellowships in adult hematology/oncology and child/adolescent psychiatry started in 2020.
- The 2021 child neurology residency and addiction medicine fellowships will start recruiting first trainees.
- Expanding academic programs create a growing need for medical staff members to get involved in
- medical education. Contact Dr. Kountz or your department chair to learn about teaching
- opportunities.
The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at 5:30 p.m.
Dr. Erler wished everyone a happy holiday season