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June 22, 2015
Welcome New Employees! Please welcome these new staff members
who joined our ministry in May 2015:
Danielle Barnsdale General Surgery Anisha Petigara Nursing Float
Pool
Jonelle Broaddus Physical Therapy-SRM Jennifer Piccolo Nursing
Float Pool
Timmie DeWan Sterile Processing Amy Ramirez Case Management
Sarah Fonteno Respiratory Care Salene Rivera Acute Rehab
Vaneza Harrington Nursing Administration Raymond Rochioli
Nutrition Services
Patrick Hughes ICU/CCU Julio Roman Nutrition Services
Sherlie Jefcoats ICU/CCU Sarah Stone Ambulatory Surgery
Services
Ritchell Labog Pathology Anne Sulonen General Surgery
Mary Lapeere Acute Rehab Shelly Tolbert Radiology Diagnostic
Gary Ludwig Pathology Lee Vu Radiology Diagnostic
Coralie McFarland Emergency Room Zuhra Dabner Post Anesthesia
Care Unit
Jose Medina Oliva Nursing Administration Kathryn Hodson Physical
Therapy
Rigoberto Mijangos Pacheco Medical Telemetry (4W) Selena Luis
Surgical Services
Caren Nguyen Pharmacy Isabelle Osterlund Surgical Services
Martha Ortega Radiology Diagnostic Johna Peterson Hospice,
Memorial
Ellen Pandey Regional Referral Yolanda Ramos ICU
Richard Parke ICU/CCU Heather Wahanik Hospice, Memorial
Dr. James DeVore Named Finalist in Press Democrats Best Doctor
Category!
In the Press Democrats Best of Sonoma County 2015 poll,
family practitioner Dr. James DeVore has been named a finalist
in the
Best Doctor category!
What does this mean? VOTING IS NOW OPEN!
Please vote for Dr. DeVore by visiting
www.pressdemocrat.com/best
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Annadel Medical Group Raises Funds for Nepal at Bake Sale
Congratulations and thank you to Site Manager Sue Scheetz and
the
Annadel Medical Group at 121 Sotoyome for their donation to the
Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund.
The group raised over $300 dollars at their benefit bake sale,
which
will be matched dollar for dollar by St. Joseph Health.
Your efforts and kindness is an example of our ministrys
commitment to serve others.
Sue Scheetz (left) and Traci Stockton (right) represented
Annadel medical Group, with Nicole Ferris and Lauren Pavich (not
shown).
The St. Joseph Health system office would like to know how well
theyre serving you, our internal customers at each ministry. We
realize that our level of service to each of you directly affects
your ability to provide compassionate care, promote health
im-provement and create healthy communities. Just as patient
satisfaction at our ministries is measured by the Hospital Consumer
Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Sys-tems (HCAHPS) survey,
the system office also measures satisfac-
tion of our internal customers by conducting an annual survey.
The system office is comprised of key departments, including human
resources, IT, strategic services, market-ing and communications,
mission integration, legal, finance, and revenue cycle services
(RCS). Please com-plete the short five question survey based on how
the system office as a whole (not individual departments) addresses
your needs. At the end of the survey you will have the opportunity
to provide open ended feedback about the specific departments
mentioned above.
If you feel as though you have not interacted enough with the
system office to respond to the survey, you have the option to opt
out.
Please click here to complete this survey by June 30.
Thank you in advance for your honest feedback. If you have
questions about this survey, please contact James Sudakow at
[email protected].
Your Feedback is Needed: How is the St. Joseph Health
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT. FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!
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Join Us for the Schwartz Center Rounds, July 10, 2015
Caring for the Combative Patient
Linda Espinosa, MSW Social worker, 2 East & 2 Center
Rob Alessi, MD, Psychiatrist, Annadel Medical Group
Lila Bugarske, RN Staff nurse, 2 East
Brandon Ingles, Security officer
Conversations about clinical care are common. But what about the
emotional and social issues that in-evitably arise with patient
care? To allow health professionals to openly, honestly discuss
these chal-lenging issues, St. Joseph Health recently introduced
The Schwartz Center Rounds to all Sonoma County staff, physicians
and volunteers. This ongoing program offers nurses, therapists,
social workers, physicians and representatives of other disciplines
an opportunity to share experiences and thoughts arising from
actual cases. Our next lunch-time rounds convene at 12:30 p.m.
Friday, July 10, and focus on Caring for the Combative Patient.
Guest panelists will include SRMH team members Rob Alessi, MD,
psychiatrist; Lila Bugarske, RN, staff nurse on 2 East; Linda
Espinosa, MSW, social worker on 2 East and 2 Center, and Brandon
Ingles, security officer.
Andrew Wagner, MD, will facilitate. SRMH Chief of Staff
Jeannette Currie, MD, and Chaplain Brian Plaugher also lead and
support our Schwartz rounds.
After listening to a brief presentation, attendees will be
invited to share their own perspectives about the case in point or
about broader, related issues.
Friday, July 10 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.
lunch served, starting at noon SRMH Conference Rooms B - D
CEUs and CMEs offered
NO RSVP REQUIRED
For more information, please contact Chaplain Brian Plaugher at
[email protected] or (707) 525-5300, extension 6344.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED, June 28 Volunteers are needed
at the St. Rose Health Fair to assist with registration,
heights/weights, blood pressure
and interpreting results. Can you help?
Sunday, June 28 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Please contact Chelene Lopez at (707) 525-5283 or
[email protected]
WALK IN MY SHOES: Foundation Director Andrea Learned Spends Time
With Hospice
I manage to arrive early. The first thing that catches me on the
donor wall are the words: What is
it you plan to do with this one wild and precious life? I notice
the warmth of the staff greetings
and sense the trust and competence of the team There is an easy
focus on all that is precious.
Craig Sheffer catches me up on the news of his daughter. She has
one accomplishment
after another while waiting for acceptance on the heart/lung
transplant list. She is alive
and off to Europe.
A Buddhist bell rings, we stand together and hold hands and
after a few computer glitches
the Interdisciplinary Team begins. There are five new admits, 16
other patients requiring
review and one death to report.
Dr. Kai Ander assures me that this will be a brisk and timely
meeting and that all reports will be concise. I
think that sounds most unlikely and soon I am amazed by the
discipline that Mindy Toth brings to the morn-
ings proceeding. First WOW: The care partners observations and
solutions are as important as Dr. Anders
interventions and the nurse and social workers reports. This is
a true IDT.
The troubling array of symptoms, pain, loss and tearful family
tension begins to overwhelm me. I find myself
laughing at things that are only end of life funny and I try to
take in all this team must hold...to be a witness
to so much physical pain, all the secrets, all the anger of
families who are overwhelmed and the valiant
struggle to manage so much illness in these dear fragile bodies.
One person cant sleep, cant lie down
and battles persistent nausea. Another couple needs large
quantities of care and are in the same facility but
on different floors. They spend their days longing for each
other. One patient has a young son and he is an-
gry and lashing out at all he is about to lose. The patients
anger is frightening his family, and may be exacer-
bated by a peculiar combination of medications. One patient is
so much better but may fall apart if we re-
move Edith, our staffer, who the patient has come to love with
her whole heart.
Christina Inginito starts her report with the words, This is a
very tender situation. My patient is deeply griev-
ing for herself; she knows that she is slipping away. Another
patients bones are visible; the patient is eating
more and sleeping less. We talk of hallucinations, anger and
extraordinary complexity. We think about better
breathing with morphine and are stilled by the prospect of a
cancer that has gone to the eyelids. There are
many women caregivers to be considered; the sheer catalogue of
their stresses astonish. One patient does
a happy dance when his nurse comes to visit. It is believed that
one family member may have struck a pa-
tient and the right reports must be filed. Another patient has
become depressed at the thought that she might
be discharged from Hospice. Betsy Hands reports are a joy to
hear. She is everywhere singing, playing the
piano for our patients and always thoughtfully engaging the
spirit. I think Id like to be more like Betsy (if only
I could sing).
After 90 minutes, I realize these are the people I would most
want to take care of me and my family. These
are the trained men and women who combine the best of modern
medicine and the traditions of Sisters and
Shamans and those who understand the power of touch and the
importance of listening. I cannot find the words
