Welcome Dr. Moser

We would like to welcome Dr. Moser to the clinic. I'm not sure where his area or his office hours yet but when I find out I will post them.

Byetta training

Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly and Company are offering a free education program called "Managing Your Diabetes". A diabetes educator will teach the program. During this session, the patient will learn more about Type 2 Diabetes and how to improve glucose control with BYETTA. We had stopped providing the classes due to the high no show rate, but the educator is willing to try this a second time if we can line up at least 5 patients a session.

To help facilitate this program, we have set up "schedule" in MARS. As a nurse or receptionist, please schedule the patient under the "Education" in the MARS scheduling system. There is a 10am session on 5-8 and a 2pm session on 5-29. When scheduling, just hit "add new" at the time slot and add the patient. Pt will not be charged for the session, but we are trying to encourage patients to show up for the training. Hopefully, having an "appt" will help motivate them to show up.

Call Jenny at 1071 or drop her an email if you have any questions

Pepsi girls!

Here is what keeps Penny and Kaz going for the day. I think they are missing a one can too! This is what the 2 of them have had for today! Penny said that is a good advertisment for them!

Relay for Life

If you would like to help support cancer research, go over to the surgeons area and donate $1 and write your name on a sushine paper! They are all hanging up on the wall over in their area.

Drug book

In nurses inservice yesterday, there was a paper that everyone needs to sign that may have to give a narcotic. We need to print, sign, and put our initials on. This is so when the narcotic book is audited and a signature is hard to read, they can refer to that sheet of paper. So, if you haven't signed it or aren't sure, it is in the back on the narcotic book.

HIPPA

If you haven't heard me yet, HIPPA has a new rule. We can't look up employee phone numbers without reason or it is a HIPPA violation. So, that means, if they are a patient and we need to call, it is okay to get in their chart. But, if it is just to call and say Happy Birthday or will you work for me...or any other kind of snooping, we can no longer get into employee charts. So, I am making a phone list. So, soon you will have an employee phone list. So, sorry to tell you but you can't snoop in my chart anymore unless you want a HIPPA violation!

Shot template

There is a shot temple in Practice Partner that Olivia made. This is a template for the nurse/assistants to use. Instead of typing everything out, we can open a note, click on the template button and search for nurse. This will open the template in the note. Then you can either click on the medication or type it in and finish filling out the rest of the template. If you aren't sure how to fill it out, open up Mickey Mouse's chart and try it in there. It works pretty good, so try it out!

Info

I want to try and keep everyone updated on clinic stuff...
Kerry Casperson is back with us in Administration, so, if you have seen him around, that is why!

Tina is still with us. She has moved to Colorado but she does things on-line and go on trips or whatever the providers ask her to do. So, we probably won't see her very often, she is still with us.

Our new CT scan is here and running. If the patient has insurance other than Medicare or Medicaid, we need to fill out the order form and give it to billing. They will call their insurance and see if they need to pay anything up front or what their deductible is. They will also find out if a prior authorization needs to be done. If a prior authorization needs to be done, the nurse will have to call. Billing said it is better if we wait to schedule in case the PA doesn't go through or the patient doesn't have the money. We have to do the same thing for MRI as well.

If we have a patient that needs an ultrasound on a day the ultrasound isn't here, we can call Jim and see if they will be passing through.

Colleen is the captain for the Relay for Life team again this year, the TKO's! They have been having little food fundraisers and a money jar in the surgeons area. If you have anything to donate or ideas, I am sure they would love the help.

My Opinion

Here is my opinion.
The new clinic is going up across the street, you know the one..."The Right Choice". Anyways...they can try all they want to be "The Right Choice" but if we can treat our patients right they won't want to leave our old clinic for "The Right Choice", right? So keep treating our patients (especially the ones that are nice to us!) like they are Kings and Queens and we won't have to worry about loosing patients to "The Right Choice" because we will be the patients 1st choice. We don't have to flaunt it out there about being "The Right Choice". We may have patients venture over to check out the new clinic but if we are patient and keep doing our best, they will be back!

New CT

Medical Center has new tool to diagnose local patients
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
By DANIEL IVERSON
BLACKFOOT – Engineers are installing a new CT scanner at the Blackfoot Medical Center and expect to begin training with patients early next week.Officials say the new addition saves patients from needing to get a referral and schedule appointments for CT scans elsewhere by having them done instead on-site, allowing for faster assessments and diagnoses.The scanner was delivered Monday, and setup takes about three days. It is expected to be finished by today.

CT scanners use x-rays to produce cross-section images known as slices of blood vessels, bones, organs and tissue, which can be examined with a higher level of detail than a regular x-ray.BMC administrators chose Toshiba’s Advanced Aquilion 16-slice scanner, which produces 16 slices as small as a half millimeter per half-second rotation. It requires less radiation than the 64-slice alternative.Steve Graves, senior field service engineer for Turn-Key Medical, said the slices are similar to the pages of a book and allow doctors to see minute details. The composite images can be sent digitally to radiologists.“Toshiba has been the leader for some time,” he said. Scans can help physicians to diagnose a number of conditions, such as kidney stones, liver disease and tumors. Scans are accurate, painless and fast, which BMC officials say is important for saving lives in emergency cases.“Examinations are fast and simple,” said administrator Kerry Casperson. “They reveal internal injuries and bleeding quickly enough to help save lives.” Graves said the average scan takes about 15 minutes, although patients requiring simpler ones may spend fewer than 5–10 minutes inside of the room.“It takes longer to get on and off than to perform the scan,” he said.

A newly constructed room with leaded walls and windows to protect the technicians and to prevent radiation from escaping houses the new scanner, but it’s mostly a safety precaution.“It’s only during exposures that radiation is there anyway,” Graves said.Turn-Key Medical operates locally through Pocatello and supplies, installs and maintains medical imaging equipment to Idaho and surrounding states.Turn-Key engineers are on-call to perform maintenance, but according to Graves, the scanners are generally up and running 99.8 percent of the time after installation except for preventive maintenance every three months.CT scanning now joins BMC’s increasing number of services provided, which include lab, x-ray, physical therapy, ultrasound, MRI and nuclear medicine, and paves the way for further expansion.

**This was the article out of the Morning News