Aug 2020 Collaborative Meeting

Facilitator(s)

Martha Dimmers, Andrea Barry-Smith

Minutes

Bernie Bernstein

Attendance:

Carol Parry, Seattle Children's Hospital

Dale Wratchford, Children's Hospital and Medical Center

Elaine Beardsley, Children's Health

Elizabeth Rocker, Children’s of Alabama

Heather Fitzgerald, Children's Hospital Colorado

Krystle Carpenter, Stanley Children's Hospital

Leslie Leach, Children's Health Dallas

Mandy Riemer, Children's Mercy Kansas City

Michael Fogas, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Stacy Smith, Children's Health

Stephen King, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Trish Kritek, University of Washington School of Medicine

DISCUSSION

Welcome & Attendance

• Attendance and Introductions
• Brief welcome
• Gratitude for joining

Hope/Vision for this collaborative:

• Support each other in this work
• Share tips and best practices
• Learn from each other
• Foster community
• validated instruments, evaluations, demonstrating impact/outcomes (include narrative and data)
• Structure and role sharing
• Changing culture and stigma without organizational or policy shift
• Upstream and downstream impact of implementations
• Sharing themes, trends up- and cross-stream: patient safety, experience survey, diversity)

Topic Ideas

• Supporting staff during COVID-19 and related coping needs
• How are workforce needs shifting?
• Successful projects and initiatives
• How to connect virtually (platforms and programs)
• Connecting with workforce at remote locations
• Supporting workforce through the ambiguity of low COVID-positive patient populations and continuing to take significant precations and preparations
• Reaching the whole workforce: night shift, off site, weekends, diversity.

Operational Nuts and Bolts

• Monthly meetings at a regular time