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A PUBLICATION OF GOLDEN PLAINS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL NOVEMBER 2010 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 11
GPCH employees hold
events for United Way
GPCH employees held a variety of der the hospital portico when
fundraising contests and events in Dennis will get a new haircut
October on behalf of United Way. and Denny will pucker up with
Among those events were the oppor- a pig! This is an event no one
tunity to wear jeans on Wednesdays will want to miss!
in November, wear costumes at Hal-
loween or win two days of PTO, play Many thanks to the GPCH
BINGO, place pie and cookie orders Performance Excellence
DENNY KILDAY DENNIS JACK Teams (Employer of Choice,
or purchase something scrumptious
from a bake sale. agreed to kiss a pig if the Physician Communications, Rewards & Recog-
Satisfaction Team could raise $500 nition and Physician Satisfaction) who
One of the most popular GPCH and Dennis agreed to have his head participated, to all GPCH employees
United Way fundraisers drew a large shaved into a Mohawk if the Team who contributed and to Administration
number of donations—and a few mo- could raise $1000—and they did! for their cheerful cooperation!
ments of regret for GPCH Chief Ex-
ecutive Officer Dennis Jack and Chief The two will meet their destinies on Way to go, GPCH!
Financial Officer Denny Kilday! Denny November 3, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. un-
GPCH to hold contest for new hospital logo design
Golden Plains Community Hospital is The winning design logo, decided by Submit your design to Admini-
looking for a new logo to represent the Hutchinson County Hospital Dis- stration in a sealed envelope with
who we are and what we stand for trict Board of Directors, will bring its your name on the envelope.
and GPCH employees are invited to designer $250.00 in cash! Do not sign the design.
submit their designs!
The rules are: Each submission will be num-
bered so the designers’ names
Deadline is Monday, January 31,
will be unknown to the judges.
2011.
Up to three designs may be sub-
mitted per person.
The winner will be announced on
March 1, 2011!
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GPCH From the Desk of the CEO
honors The Dust Has Started Flying
Martinez Well, by now each of you has probably seen all the work going on at the top of the
hill. The construction started in earnest the middle of October and has already made
family tremendous progress. All the major dirt work has been completed, taking—at the top
- 13 feet off the hill. They have already installed the water main lines for the project,
LUIS
GPCH employ- MARTINEZ six inches of supply with two different feeds from the city water system so we should DENNIS JACK,
always have a good water supply. They have installed the construction fence, so
ees donated 283 CEO
material will now start being delivered and stored onsite, as well. By the end of the
hours of PTO, totaling first week of November, the contractor will have the pad site ready for the first of four
$7,823.35, to the family of Luis buildings so plumbing, electrical and low voltage piping can be laid in the pad prior to the pouring of
Martinez, GPCH Scrub Tech. cement. This will not be very visible from the road, but it will be only a matter of a few weeks before the
steel structure starts going up on the hill so you can really see our hospital as it grows.
Luis was killed in an auto acci-
dent on Monday, October 11, Still working on the decisions with all the equipment, so you will probably see lots of vendors in the hos-
2010 on his way home from pital showing off their equipment. We have decided on a 64 slice CT, from Toshiba that will allow us to
do many more studies than we do now, including cardiac studies and virtual colonoscopies. We will
work.
have our digital mammography equipment delivered this month too, giving us the same level of capabili-
ties as Amarillo hospitals.
Luis’ wife, Lidia, wrote, “Thank
you for all the Blessings that The planning and implementation of our electronic medical record switch has begun as well, so stay
you did for me and my family. tuned for updates on the NextGen product and training associated with that change. We should have
May God bless you and you the admissions/accounting change done by mid-winter, with the clinical departments to start training by
are like angels to me and my late spring. We plan on making the “Meaningful Use” designation that the federal government has set
kids. I pray for all of you. I by Aug 2011, prior to moving into the new hospital. Exciting times ahead.
couldn’t say thank you enough.
We love all of you.” - Martinez
Family
BINGO Winners!
HIPAA Info! Lana Tipton, C.N.A., and Lu-
pita Aguilera, Receptionist,
both work at Golden Plains
By Kimberly Hogan, RHIA
Rural Health Clinic (formerly
Remember to use and disclose known as Women & Chil-
only the minimum necessary PHI! dren’s Clinic) and both won
To lessen the risk to patient privacy, the GPCH United Way BINGO
be sure to access only the patient games! Congratulations to
information you need to do your job. both ladies!
For example, if you only need to look
up a patient’s address, don’t look at
other screens containing lab results
or diagnoses. And if you are author-
ized to disclose or release PHI to BHS Occupational Students Learn at GPCH
someone else, be sure that you give
out only the information needed to Occupational stu-
satisfy the purpose of the release. dents from Borger
For example, if information about High School un-
today’s visit is all that is needed, dergo training at
don’t release the patient’s full record. GPCH Monday
Note that the organization releasing through Wednes-
PHI is responsible for following the day each week.
principle of minimum necessary. They are
Shealeigh Tabor,
Rudy Armendariz,
Allison Martinez,
Zayra Adame,
Hannah Blakely
and Hannah
Robertson.
NOVEMBER 2010 GOLDEN PLAINS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL PAGE 3
GPCH employees get involved!
The Borger Trash Bash
KATHY BATSON, ADMISSIONS; GLORIA GAMEZ, GOLDEN PLAINS ROSA CASAS, MEDICAL RECORDS,
FROSTY NORTHRUP, EVS; AND RURAL HEALTH CLINIC, AND HER AND HER CHILDREN.
BECKY PEERY, INFECTION CON- CHILDREN.
TROL.
MDA Fundraiser
Infection Control
Week
Fredricka says, “If you don’t wash your
hands, I will see you in your dreams!”
Becky Freddy..er, Peery...provided GPCH
employees and patients in October with all
types of incentives for taking precautions
to avoid infection.
DENNIS JACK, CEO recently spent some
time in “jail” in order to help raise funds
for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Mr. Jack reports he raised a good sum of
money for the worthy organization!
GPCH Birthdays: 11/19: Sherry Kramer & Abbie
11/2: Michelle Hernandez & David Cano
Stephenson 11/23: Vicki Bybee & Tammy
11/5: Sandra Hernandez, Rocio Kemp
Flores & Debra Wells 11/25: Gloria Piedra
11/6: Kathy Whelchel 11/27: Veronica Gonzalez NEW EMPLOYEES
11/7: Janet Vannatta 11/29: Theresa McCollum Liza Avila, Laboratory
11/12: Abby Garrison Ashley Fitzgerald, Admissions
11/18: Teri Kane & Michelle Nichols Candi Stavenhagen, Laboratory
PAGE 4 GOLDEN PLAINS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL NOVEMBER 2010
Above
and
Beyond!
KELLEY CHISUM, RN, AND BETTY HERRERA, AC- GPCH EMPLOYEES who earned special commendation for saving the life of a
COUNTING, were chosen as Employees of the Quarter on precious child are: (l. to r.) Krista Bashor, Phlebotomist; Jennifer Hatfield, LVN;
October 29, 2010. These ladies go above and beyond! Beth Jones, RN; Kelly Chisum, LVN; and Lisa Burrows, LVN. (Not shown)
Lindsey Griswold, RN; Theresa McCollum, RN; Amanda Stover, LVN; Vicky
Cato, RN; Jacey Hammit, RT; Melissa Sandoval, Radiology; and Ammon We-
ber, M.D.
CATHY McWILLIAMS, RN, AND GEORGIA HUGHES,
RN, were escorted in style recently! The McLean Care
Center in McLean, TX, sent a limo to pick the two up for PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST winners are (l.) Cindy Willis, First Place, and
a tour of the Center. Pam Trout, Second Place. Beth Raper’s entry was non-voted Worst Pumpkin!
Last Month’s Winner!
We’re pleased to report that a good number of GPCH employees found
Find the
the scissors in last month’s Hot Off The Press! Those finding the scissors
were: Amy Hogan, Kelly Chisum, Shawn Nicholes, Eva Garcia, Jean Chi-
sum, Judy Mooney, Chelsea Tabor, Becca Cooper, Cyndee Hester, Kim
Riggs, Angela Raines, Kim Charles, Steve Searcy, Debbie Chilcote-
Wishbone!
Pollakowski, Nora Salomon, Dana Cook, Tammy Stone, Pam Trout, Beth
Raper, Griselda Miramontes, Rosa Casas, Betty Herrera, Lisa Burrow,
Kathy Batson, Marti Tull, Heather Jones, Adam Dale, Jason Redwine, You all did such a great job at finding the scissors last month, let’s
Marsha Bell, Javier Villescas, Pat Searcy, Cathy Wagner and Kathy see if you can find the tiny wishbone!
Whelchel.
Call Debra at 1101 when you find it and your name will go in the
These names went into the hardhat and the winner’s name is Kathy Bat- hat. At the end of November, a drawing will be held to see which
son. Congratulations, Kathy, you win a $5 gift certificate from Coffee lucky person wins the $5 gift certificate from Coffee Ranch! Have
Ranch! fun!
