St. Anthony Residency Communicaiton

Our Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) process changed right before Covid came along 😊 This email details some of the changes now that we are also doing virtual visits.  We will review these processes with everyone multiple times so never fear if you need to review this more than once.  If you have questions, please let me or your supervisor know!   Attachments to this email – In person Annual Wellness Visit information – Scheduling, Rooming and Provider (Express Lane) Virtual Annual Wellness Visit without PDL Virtual Annual Wellness Visits with or without Outpatient Care Technician (OCT=Mirela for our clinics who can prep the AWV) Pearls for Annual Wellness Visits   Important things to note:   How do we do the Health Risk Assessment (HRA) now that we are no longer using our old paper forms? The Health Risk Assessment for patients is now being done in Epic in one of 3 ways.  Asked and entered into Epic by the M...

POD MEETING AGENDA JUNE 2020 THURSDAY 6/24/20 from 4-4:30pm, join through Zoom invite. ( Faculty will be leading this meeting )   Modify agenda as you see fit! Assign someone to take minutes, email to your Pod, Beth G and Tracey, Denice or Chrisaba   Introductions/check-in –   Welcome to the New Interns!!! Please introduce yourselves to one another and let the interns know your role in the clinic :)  Pod meetings are monthly, usually run by 3rd year residents, time to discuss/work on clinic processes, QI   Quarterly "All Hands Clinic Meeting" – next month Starting in July we will have a quarterly joint pod meeting including all the pods in a single meeting via Zoom. This will allow us to share new information, answer questions and learn from each other.   This will be in place of the regular pod meeting.   RNs in your Pod - Introductions and brief review of ways we can utilize our wond...

Hi All!   Some of these updates are duplicates from ResFac but some are new.  Take a look and let me know if you have questions!   Attached are some slides from our Centura provider update last week with some interesting epidemiologic info, take a look   Some interesting/encouraging data from Centura- Over 7000 tests done for routine outpatient pre-op patients in the last few weeks, only 0.13-0.14% were positive for Covid-19!  Very low prevalence in this low-risk population. Hope it stays that way!   Free Covid-19 testing is available at the Pepsi Center for patients even when asymptomatic – (self nasal swab)   Reminder to all of us to be flexible and help the clinic team by shifting desks when asked and wearing masks at all times .  Thanks to all of you already doing this!   Also please don’t eat in the pods –this is important for cleanliness and ability to wear masks.  We al...