Blog # 8

I arrived for the first meeting of the day (Rehab Meeting) at 8:00 am at the port St. John Parrish facility. Parrish has recently transitioned into a whole new company for rehab care and the new director of rehab was introduced at the meeting, his name was Christopher Mcalpen. I really enjoyed meeting Parrish, he was very down to earth, and seemed to care a lot about his job and what he can do for Parrish. We discussed things that needed to be done with the new rehab team and the first thing discussed was strategic planning, putting together a new business plan for rehab. We discussed new expenses, old expenses, the cost of equipment vs. lost in revenue, etc. We discussed the new equipment that was needed for rehab, what facility it was going to, and the brand or type of equipment needed to be ordered. There is a high need for staff in rehab and needed at minimum is two Physical Therapists. We went over the job description for those, the interview, and hiring process.
The next meeting started at 9:00 am (The Spine Team Meeting) , one of my favorite meetings to attend. We talked about the Life Spine program that we wanted to incorporate in the Human Motion Institute and when we could start the certification for it and when it could be finished. I think the goal that we all set on was July. We went over all of the Community Outreach events coming up. We changed some dates around with them; we decided the Aging Workforce Conference should be pushed to August so that we could incorporate the life spine at the event. We would then do a separate workforce conference at Port Saint John facility in September that would be open to the public. We have an event called Prime Timers coming up on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, that Dr. Smith will be speaking at and we had the slides and conversation to be spoken in line.
I then attended lunch with Gloria and went over the things discussed in the meetings and where and when I would be attending the events. The next important meeting of the day was at 1:00 pm (Physician Referral Source Integration). This meeting is important because we discuss all the events put together for promotion of the physicians and for Parrish in general. The rest of the meetings of the day were a repetition of discussions from the meetings in the morning getting processed throughout the rest of the hospital. The day went pretty well overall and my next meeting with Gloria was at the Prime Timers event on Tuesday.