Inside this issue:

Non-Acute Member

Value Opportunities

2

New Equipment for

Mobile Sim Program

2

Contract Utilization

Update

2

CCHA Team

Spotlight: Recruiters

2

Onslow Memorial

Hospital joins CCHIE

3

Viewing External Docs

on HIE Patient Search

3

CCHA’s Mobile Sim

Program Award

4

ACHE SHEF Fall

Summit Save the Date

4

Dr. Kathryn Colacchio of Coastal Children’s Services and Deb Stokes of CCHA’s Mobile Simulation Program accepting their award for Quality/Patient Care Delivery at the ninth annual Intalere Member Achievement Awards in Orlando, FL (Story on Page 4)

News & Notes COASTAL CAROLINAS HEALTH ALLIANCE

CEO Update award with Dr. Kathryn Colacchio and the team at

Coastal Children’s Services.

As you can see, we’ve had a busy quarter with new c o n n e c t i o n s , o n g o i n g collaborations, and regional initiatives. CCHA project teams continue to share best practices and collect data around key performance indicators. The Illucient Purchasing Alliance team continues to review and negotiate new contracts (we c u r r e n t l y h a v e 1 6 0 + agreements available to

members).

Planning for our annual Alliance Day event is u n d e r w a y . A d d i t i o n a l

Coastal Connect Health Information Exchange is thrilled to announce that Onslow Memorial Hospital has joined

the exchange as a full member. This is a huge win for connected providers throughout the region, and we look forward to a fantastic partnership with Onslow Memorial as our teams begin

the connection process.

We’re also excited to announce that CCHA’s Mobile Simulation Program was recently honored for its work on the NEST neonatal training program with an Intalere Member Achievement Award. We’re honored to share this

i n f o r m a t i o n , i n c l u d i n g registration, will be shared with our members in the next couple of months. Already it’s looking like we’ll have a great agenda with some fantastic speakers who will be talking to the topics of Enthusiasm and Leadership. Members can mark their calendars for Alliance Day 2017, which will be held Friday, December 1st, at the Holiday Inn Resort on

Wrightsville Beach, NC.

The team and I are looking forward to a busy summer ahead. As always, we sincerely appreciate the support and dedication of our

member hospitals!

NEONATAL

TRAINING

PARTERNSHIP

RECEIVES

NAT’L AWARD

The Mobile Simulation Program

(MSP) recently acquired a new

patient simulator as well as

several task trainers. Here’s a

snapshot of how they’ll enhance

training for our members.

Senior HAL offers an array of physician

and physiological features, such as

airway and lung compliance, myocardial

infarction modeling, and drug recognition.

His abilities support both interdisciplinary

training and nurse practice on respirator

troubleshooting and maintenance.

The SMASH Arm task trainer supports

practice with arterial and venous skills like

medication infusion, phlebotomy, and

venipuncture.

Also, our new Perineal Suture task

trainer will let training participants practice

incision training, tissue retraction, and

tissue suture and repair.

Newly established in 2017,

CCHA’s Non-Acute Member tier

encompasses pre-acute as well

as pos t -acute prov iders

throughout the region. Since first

opening this new membership

category, we have added seven non-

acute organizations, and we have eight

potential members pending. Current

members include: Black River Health

Services, Cape Fear Clinic, The Davis

Community, Lower Cape Fear Hospice,

MedNorth, New Hope Clinic, and

Wilmington Health. Our goal is to have

twelve Non-Acute Members by the end of

this fiscal year.

With so many different types of healthcare

providers represented in this tier, it will be

important for us to identify their different

types of "spends," shared needs, and

areas where we can offer significant

savings. The CCHA team and I have

already made great strides in pinpointing

value opportunities for new members.

On the contract side, we anticipate that

early savings will be achieved through

o f f i ce and medica l supp l ies ,

pharmaceuticals, and furniture/equipment

purchases. In addition, members will also

have opportunities for sharing best

practices, collaboration, and sharing

expenses through participation in new or

existing project teams. For example, a

representative for Wilmington Health

joined the CCHA Physician Recruiters

team and took part in its shared

recruitment event initiative. This quickly

became a valuable source of cost

avoidance for Wilmington Health.

We continue to work with all new Non-

Acute Members to identify more

opportunities like this.

Continued Success with Identifying Value, Opportunities for New Non-Acute Membership Tier

CCHA On Track to Strong ROI for Member Hospitals, Increased Contract Utilization

and life employee benefit plan

4. DJO Global: Soft goods / durable

m ed ic a l e qu i pme n t ( DME )

consignment program

5. MD Buyline: Capital and IT product

benchmarking tools

6. M*Modal: Medical transcription,

narrative capture, and HIM support

services

7. Truven Market Expert: Health

analytic data and tools

8. YS Companies / The Hire Scene:

Recruitment support services

9. Accelerated Claims, Inc.: MVA

account management services

10. Clean Harbors: Site remediation

services, industrial maintenance

services, lab pack, and waste

transportation/disposal services.

The third quarter of FY 2017 has

seen a continued trend of strong

contract utilization and savings

ROI for our member hospitals.

CCHA members can access the

Illucient Purchasing Alliance contract

portfol io, which currently has

approximately 160 agreements. The

Illucient team and I work hard to ensure

the portfolio has a variety of contracts in

several different categories, such as

laboratory, materials management, and

pharmacy. This ensures that we can meet

the diverse needs of our members.

Here’s a quick look at CCHA’s top ten

most utilized contracts:

1. Triose: Freight management services

2. American Red Cross: Blood supply

distribution and support services

3. Trion: Aggregated group disability

Our Physician Recruiters team has had a

busy year so far. During their monthly

meetings, they have continued to review

prospective group purchasing activities,

shared job vacancies and candidates to

support one another, and the expanded

Residents Reception event in Greenville,

NC, as well as a potential event in

Fayetteville.

This group has also participated in seven

shared recruitment events, which have

saved their hospitals a combined $21,000

in registration fees. Rather than each

indiv idual hospi ta l sending a

representative to a job fair event, one or

two from the team will attend and

represent the others as well. By doing so,

they cut back on costs and still get

representation. Well done, team!

CCHA Team Spotlight: The Physician Recruiters

New Equpiment Expands Training Capabilities

Through Coastal Connect HIE’s

federal eHealth connection, our

participants can view patient

information at Duke Health,

Mission Health, NHRMC

Physician Group/Specialist,

UNC Health Care, and Vidant Health.

Accessing this information involves a

short series of steps, which have been

outlined here.

As always, the CCHIE Help Desk is

available for anyone having trouble

accessing this information or in need of

additional guidance/troubleshooting.

The Help Desk can be reached either by

phone (1 -888-213-2147) or at

support.coastalconnect.org.

Memorial’s patients and their families

by supplying a complete medical history

to care providers. Having a patient’s

comprehensive health record in one

place and accessible by any provider

who is connected to the HIE eliminates

significant gaps and guesswork.

We are excited to begin this new

regional partnership with Onslow

Memorial Hospital. HIE integration work

will kick off in the coming weeks, and

the CCHIE team will share milestone

dates for CERT and PROD once they

have been established.

Onslow Memorial Hospital, a 162-

b e d f a c i l i t y l o c a t e d i n

Jacksonville, NC, has joined

Coas ta l Connec t Hea l th

Information Exchange (CCHIE)

as a full member. Once

connected, the hospital will be able to

leverage the electronic “pipes” between

providers across a 71 county footprint in

both North and South Carolina,

underscoring the hospital’s commitment to

their motto “Where People Care.”

In addition to being able to access

information on the exchange, Onslow

Memorial Hospital will also become a data

contributor. Their patient information will

enhance the depth and richness of the

data that is available to all of our

connected providers and improve care

transition across our footprint.

CCHIE tools will empower Onslow

Memorial’s care managers and providers

by giving them access to patient records

at the point of care. With just a couple of

clicks, clinicians can quickly confirm test

results, emergency room admissions,

and other care encounters, thereby

increasing patient engagement at

appointments and eliminating delays

due to waiting on faxed test results from

another provider. A survey comment

from an HIE user in Wilmington spoke

to the benefit of having timely patient

information: “We can fax a request for

information to an office and wait weeks

for it to be processed or we can use

Coastal Connect to get the info the

same day the patient is in our office.

Win for the patient and the providers!”

CCHIE will also benefit Onslow

Onslow Memorial Hospital Becomes Full Member of Coastal Connect HIE

From the HIE Help Desk: Viewing External Documents on the HIE’s Patient Search Tool

Save the Date: ACHE Sandhills Chapter Fall Summit in Fayetteville—Sept. 28—29, 2017

Save the date, ACHE members! The Sandhills Chapter will be hosting its Fall S u m me r a t M e t h od i s t University in Fayetteville on September 28th and 29th. The

two-day event will over six (6) hours of

face-to-face education credits.

We’re looking forward to another exciting line-up of topics. The agenda

will include panels on:

Applying Lean, Six Sigma, and Blue Ocean Thinking to your

Reform Strategy

Emergency Department Service Standards: A Best Practice

Approach

The Path to EMR Implementation:

Strategies for Success

Improving the Health Status of

Your Community

This event will be open to both ACHE ($75 registration fee) and non-ACHE members ($100 registration fee). Students are also invited to attend at a

nominal registration fee of $25.

We’d also like to express our sincere appreciation to several members of CCHA hospitals, who have volunteered to participate on the panels. We know they all have extremely busy schedules, so we thank them for taking time to attend and share their expertise

with attendees.

The Sandhills Chapter will also be hosting a networking social on the first

Thank You to our

Alliance Day 2016 Sponsors:

GOLD SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

evening of the event (Sept. 28) as well as a prep course for the Board of Governors Exam that following

weekend (Sept. 30 & Oct. 1).

We hope to see you there for a full agenda of learning and regional networking. Registration information will be available soon, so mark your calendars! If you have any questions or would like additional information, p l e a s e c o n t a c t m e a t

lmaher@coastalalliance.org.

CCHA’s Mobile Simulation

Program (MSP) partnered with

Coastal Children’s Services, a

pediatric subspecialty group

caring for children with complex

conditions, to offer a

unique training opportunity

called “NEST.” For its ongoing

work throughout the region,

the NEST program recently

received a 2017 Intalere

Member Achievement Award

for Quality / Patient Care

Delivery.

NEST (Neonatal Education

and Simulation Training) aims

to improve the health

outcomes of high -r isk

newborns through high-fidelity

simulation scenarios for

delivery room providers. Dr. Kathryn

Colacchio, neonatologist and medical

director for simulation for Coastal

Children’s Services, conducts the

NEST training alongside our MSP team

at many of our rural CCHA hospitals.

Scenarios mainly focus on how to

resuscitate and stabilize premature

babies.

Dr. Colacchio and Deb

Stokes, MSP Manager, both

traveled to Orlando, FL, for

t h e E l e v a t e 2 0 1 7

Conference, Intalere’s

annual event, last month to

a c c e p t t h e a w a r d .

Throughout the event they

were able to network with

healthcare providers from

around the country and

share information about

NEST. We’re thrilled to

share with award with

Coastal Children’s Services and look

forward to future NEST trainings

throughout the region!

Neonatal Training Partnership Recognized, Receives National Award for Care Delivery