Welcome to the third issue of our enewsletter. This month, we bring you a report from our medical team in Haiti, details about how key West Bay Region functions are organized, updates on entitlements, as well as community benefit, Region, and Affiliate news. We continue to make great progress in the West Bay in Quality and Service as well as Medicare Affordability. Your work has been critical to our success. However, as you all know, we are not without our challenges, particularly in the areas of commercial volume and capital availability. The West Bay Strategic Plan is well underway to address these issues and to fully implement our top three priorities: Physician Strategy, Capital Investment Strategy and Medicare Affordability Initiative. Please take the time to give us your feedback on this newsletter. |
Report from Haiti
The majority of the hospital was destroyed in the earthquake and we were operating in tents without running water and with marginal electricity. Ninety-five percent of our patients were homeless. We took 31 large bags of medical supplies and drugs and wished we had more. We all returned with a profound sense of admiration for the resilience of the Haitian people and a wish that we could have done even more. We thank Sutter Health and all of the volunteers on the ground for sponsoring our mission.
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Update: West Bay Region Organizational Structure Reporting relationships have now been determined for the majority of the Region’s functional areas. Click on the Org charts to learn more about how each function is organized and the names of team members.
Historically, strategic planning has been supported by teams from both 345 California St. (Sutter) and CPMC. Going forward, the function will be a single lean and integrated team supporting the planning needs of the Region as a whole. The group’s focus will be driven by a short list of top annual priorities as determined by the Region CEOs. The Marketing organization will combine and integrate existing regional resources across affiliates into a cohesive and closely aligned organization. A Regional Marketing retreat to establish priorities and processes for the group is pending.
CPMC has well-formed teams with distinct assignments. In the North Bay, our Lakeside, Santa Rosa and Novato affiliates have well-managed functions, but staff serve in additional roles beyond communications, public affairs and community benefit. Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation has a high functioning effort in the North Bay, but there has been no post-merger overall communications and public affairs leadership, especially in San Francisco and Marin. We are moving forward to fill the resource gap. Over the next 12 months, we will work on the next phase of the transition with the goal of further aligning each function, while at the same time respecting the highly local nature of communications, public affairs, and community benefit. |
Region Updates Region Participates in System Initiatives The West Bay Region participates in a large number of System Initiatives. Examples include the Affordability Initiative, Blue Ribbon Task Force II (BRT II) Implementation, the new capital access process, supply cost reduction, Lynx revenue capture system, patient-centered care transformation, and the Electronic Health Record Implementation. Members of the Region Management Team, as well as physician leaders and affiliate leaders, are representing the Region on these and other systemwide efforts. Merger Celebrations
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Entitlement Updates Sutter Medical Center Santa Rosa By unanimous vote, the Planning Commission recently recommended approval to the Board of Supervisors for the new hospital project and certification of the Environmental Impact Report. This summer, the Board of Supervisors For additional information on the project, please visit California Pacific Medical Center CPMC is hoping to break ground on two state-of-the-art hospitals (at St. Luke’s and at the new Van Ness & Geary campus) and is also hoping to build a world-class Neurosciences Institute at the Davies Campus. The projects are entering a critical phase of the entitlement process - the publication of the Draft Environmental Impact Report - and plans are also continuing through the Sutter Health approval processes. Estimated project milestones: Draft EIR (June), San Francisco Planning Commission (September), and San Francisco Board of Supervisors (November/December), with construction to begin the end of 2010, if all Sutter and City of San Francisco approvals are received. In an important development, labor union SEIU has agreed to publicly support CPMC’s plan.
Rebuild CPMC Employee Fairs have been held at all six campuses to provide information about the project, create excitement, and obtain input from front-line staff. To date, 1,505 employees have participated - viewing facility renderings and examples of technologies, and visiting an actual-size patient room. |
Community Benefit News $237,254 donated to West Bay Region community clinics
To date, a total of $237,254 has been donated to the following clinics: Coastal Health Alliance (Marin); Jewish Community Free Clinic and West County Health Centers (Sonoma), and Mendocino Community Health Clinic (Mendocino). Grants nominated by CPMC and Novato Community Hospital will be announced in a second round. Each Sutter Health Region was allocated a block of funds from Sutter Health, and affiliates were asked to nominate clinics in their areas. Thus far, 18 community clinics across Northern California have received a total of nearly $1.5 million in grants. Sutter Health Access to Care Fund: first grants made Earlier this year, the Sutter Health network announced a partnership with the Marin Community Foundation for a five-year, $10 million fund to support Marin County's community clinics and health care safety net. The first grants were announced in April, for a total of $1.25 million for oral health, immunization, and behavioral/mental health programs. |
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By Martin Brotman, MD, President
By Toni Brayer, MD, Chief Medical Officer
In March, I had the privilege of serving as Team Lead for 17 physicians and nurses from across Sutter Health who traveled to Haiti. Working with Partners in Health, we provided critical medical relief in Port-au-Prince for the victims of the Haiti Earthquake. We provided overnight care at the main government hospital for the ICU, Pediatric ICU and Medical Wards.
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This January, Sutter West Bay Hospitals and Sutter West Bay Medical Foundation became full corporate entities of the West Bay Region. This was a major milestone that resulted from a series of mergers, asset transfers and name changes - all under the umbrella of a highly regulated process called Change of Ownership (CHOW).
This spring, a series of celebrations were held with Lakeside, Santa Rosa, Novato, Sutter Pacific, CPMC and HR/Finance Workgroups to thank everyone for their hard work. Each entity received a stuffed dog (CHOW CHOW) - the merger mascot. In addition, Certificates of Appreciation were given, using individualized Native American symbols that captured the spirited dedication and personalities of the teams.
New hospital planning is moving forward. In 2009, SMCSR presented a Business Plan for an integrated medical campus at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts site that includes an acute care hospital as well as a medical office building. 
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