We had more than 1,800 caregivers join our March 28 Open Forum, during which our IS & RESO executives covered a wide variety of topics.
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Increasing caregiver connection and satisfaction to our work is more important than ever. Here are two exercises that can be done alone or with your team to better understand how your work connects directly to Destination Health 2025, and to IS & RESO strategies and approach.
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On Monday, March 7, 2022, B.J. Moore hosted the 11th in this series of Fireside Chats with Providence’s top leaders. This chat featured Erik Wexler, president, operations & strategy, South.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for a link to the recording and to hear Erik’s thoughts on how IS & RESO enable Providence South, as well as his perspective on working alongside frontline EVS at the height of the COVID surge, and living our value of compassion in our community.
Our Texas-New Mexico region went live on Epic on March 5, replacing MEDITECH and Allscripts systems. Also, all of our Acute, Ambulatory, and Home Health sites are now on the same electronic health record (EHR). This implementation completes the Covenant conversion to the standard Providence Epic build.
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For our third article in the “Living Our Values” series, we focus on the Providence value of Justice.
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There are a couple of changes to M365 Groups starting March 15: emails from individuals outside Providence, as well as from devices, will be blocked, and only owners and approved senders of groups with 100 or more members will be able to Send/Reply All to their group.
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After yet another successful, massive Epic go-live—this time in Texas—many of our IS caregivers are still immersed in monitoring, supporting, and following up on any remaining issues. Following last May’s largest-ever Epic deployment for Orange County-High Desert and October’s go-live for Northern California, we have now completed all regional transitions to an integrated, “one EHR,” model—the largest in the world. Congratulations to all involved in crossing this finish line! This is a huge milestone for all of Providence and the culmination of years of hard work, dedication, perseverance, and skillful preparation and execution. Can’t thank everyone of you enough for making this happen.
Now, all eyes will again be on IS as we, in partnership with business stakeholders and teams across Providence, roll out Genesis ERP this summer.
The other day, I sat down for a Fireside Chat with Providence South president of operations and strategy Erik Wexler. It was great to connect with him to learn more about him and his career and chat about IS & RESO partnership with his regions, as well as his thoughts on our path to renewal.
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Congratulations to all the IS & RESO employees who were nominated for the 2022 Values in Action awards, our annual caregiver recognition program. We are also honored to have one system awardee: Roopa Rangaprasad.
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There are a number of exciting construction projects happening in our ministries. Primary and urgent care clinics are now open in Midtown Anchorage, and the final steel beam of Covenant Medical Center’s Hope Tower has been raised.
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IS Network Services implemented a new wireless (Wi-Fi) network, ProvidenceCaregiver, across Providence’s family of organizations simplifying the Wi-Fi access when visiting any Providence facility.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn how to connect your devices to the new network before the old ones are turned off.
