St. Anthony Residency Communicaiton

April Clinic Updates – the long and short of it:     Colorado Heart and Vascular Referrals  – We should refer patients with “vascular” issues as well as cardiac, see attachment for details.   Patients referred for OMT – Choose the right patients to refer -  If touching a patient causes severe pain, then they are probably not a good candidate for OMT.   Medicaid is now covering Cologuard for colon cancer screening! Can place the order in Epic.  Kit is delivered to pt, result good for 3 years   Press Ganey changes - Texting of surveys to patients starts in May sometime – Patients will need phone number in cell phone field to receive the text   Changes in quality reporting – There is a drop in mammo numbers in Feb/March for all pods related to reporting issue which has been fixed Mammogram orders were counting as completed mammograms and some older mammo results were count...

POD MEETINGS ARE THURSDAY from 4-5pm. ( 3 rd Years - Reminder to clarify who is leading meeting this week in your pod )   Pod Meeting Agenda Template – April 2019  ( modify as you’d like!)   ·          Circulate Sign-In sheet and scan/email/give to Jenn Stradley ·          Assign someone to take Minutes (can use the agenda as a template) and email to your Pod/Karen Martin/Beth Groff   ·          Introductions/Moment of Gratitude – what are you grateful for this week?   ·         Quality data by Pod, Trophies for 4 quality measures!! ·          Most recent data from March – coming in separate email from Karen ·          Wi...