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Help lead Mercy’s positive growth; take your provider survey and help write the prescription for success in our future!Take the survey by clicking on an email you will receive or by visiting our provider website, p.mercycare.org.
for Quality CareHelp write the prescription for improving your practice with Mercy.
Take our 5-minute Provider Survey starting June 19.
Welcome and Open House for
C.C. Lee, MD, FACS, Cardiovascular/Thoracic Surgeon and Mercy’s
New Cardiothoracic & Vascular Clinic
Join Us
Tuesday, June 13, 20174 to 6 p.m.8th & 8th Medical Office Building – 3rd Floor
Help welcome Dr. Lee, the leader of Mercy’s new heart surgery program. See the clinic, celebrate a new era of surgical excellence at Mercy and enjoy refreshments.
Provider Survey Starting June 19, 2017 *details to be released soon
In the last provider survey, YOU shared…
MMC heard you and responded by…
You want the organization to provide excellent clinical care to patients
Continuing to create and publish Mercy’s annual Quality Report so that providers and consumers are aware of Mercy’s quality achievements. Hiring educators for specialty areas to include ICC, CSC, ED, Med Surg, and Birthplace. Enhancing orientation to include a Post-Epic skills session where new hires go to the simulation lab after each day of Epic training to practice, hands-on, what they have learned that day.
You would like to see improvement in nursing staff recruitment and retention
Eliminating mandating and required extra shifts above the employee's FTE. Rolling out the Self-Care for HealthCare program to all staff. This program has provided us with a mechanism to better care for our staff which in turn decreases burnout and increases satisfaction. Continuing market reviews of compensation in an effort to retain staff. Increasing targeted advertising for specific specialties.
You are interested in physician leadership opportunities
Establishing 5 key medical director roles: o MercyCare Provider Communication o System Quality & Population Management o Medicare/Medicaid Population Health o Nursing Home Development o Medical Affairs
Enhancing the dyad model that pairs physician clinical leaders with non-physician operational leaders.
You want better working relationships with clinicians inside and outside of your practice area
Relationships are personal and each individual is responsible for their own good working relationships. Ways in which we have helped facilitate relationships include:
o Encouraging direct communication between providers.
o Coordinating biannual MercyCare CME events and inviting the entire medical community to attend.
o Introducing new providers to key clinicians throughout the organization during orientation.
o Facilitating meet and greets for new providers in the medical community with primary referral sources.
You wish to be informed of strategic plans and direction
Maintaining current channels of communication such as the Physician Newsletter, Top 5, p.mercycare.org and reports at medical staff committee and section meetings. Posting the strategic plan on p.mercycare.org. Attending individual provider meetings to review the strategic plan and provide updates as needed and when requested.
Take our 5-minute Provider Survey starting June 19, 2017
May 8, 2017
TO: Sue Schlarmann
Mercy Medical Center Physician Relations Manager
FROM: Dónal Kevin Gordon, M.D.
Program Director
RE: Article Announcement
The Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation had a very successful Match this year, with all
seven positions filled. The Residency is pleased now to announce the names of the incoming first-
year residents whose official starting date will be Monday, June 26, 2017, according to
Dr. Dónal Gordon, Program Director. The first-year class will have seven residents, all of whom are
highly qualified. They are as follows:
Derrick T. Alger, M.D., University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Asghar Ali, M.D. – Medical University of Lublin
Atabak Asvadi Kermani, M.D. – Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Jane C. Fischer M.D. – University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Martin A. Sahakyan, M.D. – Ross University School of Medicine
Mina Soleimani, M.D. – Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
Dylan R. Streb, D.O. – Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
We, here at the Residency, are proud of our newest interns and look forward to making them part
of the medical community this summer. Please join us in welcoming them when they arrive in June.
701 10th Street SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403-1292 (319) 398-6011
PHYSICIAN MEMO
DATE: May 15, 2017
FROM: Mike Smith, Lab Director
PHONE NUMBER / EMAIL: (319) 398-6132 / [email protected]
SUBJECT: Faster Organism Identification
Starting June 28th
, Mercy will begin using a Bruker Microflex instrument that will improve the
timeframe in which organisms from various cultures are identified. The new system will
provide results 24 to 48 hours sooner then we can today. The turn around time for antibiotic
sensitivities/resistance will stay relatively the same.
The new instrument identifies microorganisms using MALDI-TOF (Matrix Assisted Laser
Desorption/Ionization–Time Of Flight) to identify an organism’s molecular fingerprint. This
technology is in use in only a handful of institutions within the state. We are pleased to bring
you this technology to improve patient care, especially within the delivery of antibiotics.
If you have additional questions about this technology or would like more information or
education in-person related to this technology or its associated processes, we are happy to
schedule time to visit with you. Please reach out to Joe Janutka, Microbiology Supervisor at
[email protected] or (319) 861-7701 or Megan Bernabe, Clinical Pharmacist-
Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Diseases at [email protected] or (319) 221-8850
if you need more information.
