Managing Multihospital Program

lrubinlrubin
edited May 2016 in CDI Talk Archive
My organization has recently merged with 2 other hospital systems in the area. The Clinical Documentation Programs will also be merging under one department and leadership. I would really like to speak with colleagues who manage multisite programs so I can talk to them about their experience and recommendations. My name is Lois Rubin and my e-mail is lrubin@sphcs.org. If you could contact me by e-mail and we can set up a time to talk-that would be great. Thanks ahead of time.

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  • Unknown
    edited May 2016
    There is a good article in the CDI Journal for July 2012 by Fran Jurcak which addresses this topic.

    -Jane
  • Unknown
    edited May 2016
    I am supervisor of the Documentation Integrity department of a large teaching facility in Greenville, South Carolina. This hospital system is composed of 4 acute care inpatient facilities, in additional to rehab, ltach, mental health hospital, sub acute facility, and several emergent care centers. The CDI department is at the main acute care facility. We send the CDI personnel to two of the outlying facilities. Their position is housed in the main facility department. We monitored the two facilities for opportunity prior to deciding the appropriate number of CDI personnel to each facility. One of the facilities, we are now moving to fulltime due to increase in medical staff and acuity of illness. The second acute care facility has only the need for a part time CDI. However, it is beginning to grow--we will continue to monitor this one as well to evaluate when the need will be for a full time one there. In the meantime, to provide the part time CDI, we use 1 FTE who covers the smaller hospital two days a week and the larger hospital 3 days a week. I supervise all the CDI's. I monitor the success of each CDI program at all 3 hospitals. The CDI personnel are required to report to the main campus for all educational classes, staff meetings and CDI team meetings. I visit the outlying facilities as much as possible during the month. New plans are to schedule time each week to go to the outlying facilities to "work" with the CDI there. Even the CDI personnel at the small outlying facilities are held to the same standards as the main facility CDI. It has worked well this way for 3 years. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

    Juanita B. Seel, RN, CCDS, CDIP
    Supervisor CDI
    jseel@ghs.org
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