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ADENA COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER 2018

272 Hospital Road, Chillicothe, OH 45601740-779-7500 • WWW.ADENA.ORG

ADENA BEGINS USE OF GERM ZAPPING ROBOTS

Adena Health System President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jeff Graham and Fayette County Memorial Hospital (FCMH) CEO Mike Diener have signed an affiliation

agreement between the two organizations. The agreement becomes effective October 1.

Over the past year, Adena and FCMH have collaborated to increase medical services for patients in the region with the addition of specialty services being performed at FCMH by Adena providers. The partnership began with Orthopedics in August 2017, adding Pulmonology in November 2017.

“Adena and FCMH, partnering together to expand the availability of services in Fayette County meets each organization’s shared goal -- to keep quality care in or near the patient’s home,” said Adena President and CEO Jeff Graham. “Adena’s partnership vision includes working with our region’s health care partners to enable patients to be cared for locally,

while aligning and reducing the cost for care. This partnership is a win-win for everyone involved.”

With the affiliation agreement, access to even more of Adena’s specialty services will now be available to patients on the FCMH campus. These specialties include: Cardiology, Dermatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Ob/Gyn, and Urology. Adena specialty providers will see patients and perform a number of procedures within FCMH facilities.

“Our partnership with Adena Health System has gotten off to a great start, and we are excited to enter into this affiliation to give patients close-to-home options for their care,” explained FCMH CEO Mike Diener. “Patients are grateful for the opportunity to receive excellent specialty care, right here in their hometown.”

Patients can easily schedule an appointment with an Adena specialist on the FCMH campus.

Adena Pulmonology and Orthopedic specialists are located in FCMH’s Medical Arts Building #1, Suites 106 and 201, located at 1450 Columbus Avenue, Washington Court House. The newly-added Adena specialists will be housed in Suite 340 of FCMH Medical Arts Building #2, located at 1510 Columbus Avenue, Washington Court House.

ADENA HEALTH SYSTEM AND FAYETTE CO. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INK AFFILIATION

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Each day, hospitals across the country have hundreds of patients and visitors enter their facilities. Most unknowingly bring in germs and other contaminants, including microorganisms, which cause infections. These germs are becoming more hardy and antibiotic-resistant. To help battle these germs and lower infection rates for our patients, Adena Regional Medical Center has purchased two new Xenex LightStrike germ-zapping robots.

The equipment has been proven to quickly destroy the germs and bacteria that can cause infections using intense ultraviolet (UV) light, and the Xenex robots essentially destroy potential harmful organisms before they pose a threat to patients and employees.

“Xenex light disinfection is proven to decrease infection risk,” explained Director of Quality Amy Robertson. “As we know, environmental cleaning is a vital component to infection prevention improvement activities. It does not change our manual patient room cleaning process, but provides an added layer of protection for all exposed surfaces in the room. Adding this technology only enhances our process and improves patient safety by decreasing the risk of infection.”

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Pictured (l-r seated): Fayette County Memorial Hospital’s CEO Mike Diener, Adena Health System President & CEO Jeff Graham, and Adena Board of Trustees Chair Virginia Wettersten sign affiliation agreement between the two, independent health care providers.

Members of FCMH and Adena leadership teams also pictured.

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ADENA PARTNERS WITH YUSA; OPENS WORKPLACE CLINIC

ADENA COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

272 Hospital Road, Chillicothe, OH 45601740-779-7500 • WWW.ADENA.ORG

SEPTEMBER 2018

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Adena Health System has opened its second workplace clinic on the grounds of an area employer, celebrating the grand opening of the Adena clinic at YUSA Corporation, located in Washington Court House, Ohio.

Investing in the health of its workforce, and to manage their overall health care costs, a growing number of employers, like YUSA, are joining forces with hospitals and health systems to provide onsite care for ill or injured workers. YUSA is a Japanese-owned company that makes auto parts, and has a workforce of 451 company employees and 83 contracted employees.

“We’re really excited about working with YUSA to offer primary care services and being onsite for the initial care of injured workers,” said Adena’s Vice President of System Network Development Steve Keating. “Larger employers want onsite clinics with quick, walk-in access to primary care for their workforce at a lower cost. It helps them control their costs related to primary care, and gives us the opportunity to provide services like wellness coaching and chronic disease management.”

Adena’s clinic at YUSA will be open and staffed weekdays during regular business hours. In addition to providing primary care services to YUSA workers, their dependents - including children eight years old and up - will also be seen at the clinic. The clinic

staff will offer initial visit care when a worker becomes injured on the job, referring the patient to Adena’s Occupational Health Department for further care and rehabilitation.

Adena’s first onsite workplace clinic opened about seven years ago at Fluor BWXT in Piketon (Pike County). That facility has served as a model of success in Adena’s venture into workplace health care. Adena’s Outreach and Occupational Health team plans to continue to expand onsite care services in the future.

Currently, the two robots are being used in the C-section rooms of Labor and Delivery, and in inpatient rooms following a discharge or transfer. The devices are also being used to clean operating rooms in the evening hours.

“Our goal is to keep the robots running continuously,” said Robertson. “As we work through implementation, we will review usage patterns to strategically place the robots in other high risk areas in the future.”

Hundreds of hospitals across the country are using LightStrike robots to disinfect their facilities, and several hospitals have published peer-reviewed studies showing 50%-100% reductions in the spread of infections including: Cdiff/MRSA and SSI.

The LightStrike system enhances the hospital’s already thorough processes for cleaning rooms and killing the pathogens that cause infections. The process of adding the LightStrike system to Adena’s cleaning procedures should not affect patient care in any way.