Welcome Jamie Kahn and Jamella Broome!
Jamie has taken over the reigns as NSI’s Marketing Liaison.
Jamella is our new Interim Manager for Outpt. Psych and Headache Clinic.
Nanveet Gill – will be the new manager for Memory & Brain Center, taking over from Carrie Barbee who has served as interim manager. Carrie will continue to manage Epilepsy Clinic.
NSI Strategic Plan / Mission Forward work:
The NSI Strategic Plan has been completed. The result from numerous committee data- gathering and forecasting meetings held over the past 6 months, the plan will inform NSI on expansion and marketing campaigns over the next 5 years.
Mission Forward work continues – much of the focus on Access improvements and scheduling utilization.
New Service Line Manager at Fred Hutch
Laura Sconyers will be managing Neuro, Onc, Thoracic Head and Neck at Fred Hutch. FH has it’s own strategic plan, so we are working together to integrate theirs with ours since we are essentially one neuro-onc program.
Marketing is looking at co-branding both entities.
2 New Nurse Navigators for ABTC!
We have hired two Nurse Navigators (1 FTE) starting at ABTC. This is great for our HMC colleagues who originally treat an urgent pt. during a critical visit but may later become lost in follow-up. One of their main goals is to get these patients on the road with our Neuro-oncology team. The new nurse navigators are already in full swing and have navigated around 20 patients last month.
Exploring LITT device for MTLK
We are looking into acquiring a LITT ‘device’ for Mtlk. We currently treat some epilepsy patients at HMC with LITT and are looking at how this might work at Mtlk for brain tumor patients. We are working with Dr. Ferreira, and Dr. Ko and the finance team on a pro forma now. More to come.
Clearly there has been a lot of activity and planning. A shout-out to all of you for helping to drive much of this change and progress!
Animated Video for BAC
We invested in an animated video short on Brain Aneurysm Care and how it’s treated. The target audience is pts w/ brain aneurysm patients that are not emergent. It was loaded on to our webpage in March of 2022 with a form for patients to request an appt. – Shelby at HMC Neurosurgery has been fielding patient inquiries and following up w/pts within 24 hours to get them scheduled. This is a great example of a project/proforma based on collaborative input from staff and team members which has resulted in 63 outpt and 7 inpt encounters. Minus the cost of building the campaign, we have garnered $310K in revenue from this endeavor! We’d like to do more of these, but like Open Scheduling, we will be cognizant of any strain it may add to the team.
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