Henry Ford outlines its path to good leadership
Henry Ford outlines its path to good leadership
Home health system focuses on results
The Henry Ford Health System Home Health Care in Detroit has a leadership program that is designed to teach volunteer staff how to become organizational leaders.
The program has included participation in the following activities:
• Attending a leadership training orientation.
• Participating on a committee to revise the home health care Physician Communication Guidelines.
• Job shadowing for several hours with a case manager.
• Job shadowing with a home health supervisor.
• Attending a maternal/child team meeting, an advisory group to home health care meeting, a medical advisory group meeting, and an executive management staff meeting.
• Attending a high-tech leadership meeting, a managers’ meeting, an information services task force, and a chief information officers advisory committee meeting.
• Accompanying a nurse or therapist or home health aide on a home visit.
• Taking courses on home health care, branch operations, and getting business results.
• Attending lectures/courses on managed care and physician relations, human resources, therapy services and clinical services.
• Attending committee meetings, such as the operations committee, home marketing committee, quality leader committee, quality improvement meeting, corporate nursing executive committee, and home health revenue and expense meetings.
• Participate in a new open packet process in which the participant will follow the new open from the time it is submitted into the office; checked by the supervisor; submitted to data entry for logging, coding, entering, and printing; proofing by leadership, and sent to the physician for signing.
• Assist with Friday morning work planning, working with team leaders at 7:30 a.m. in assigning cases.
• Participate in a chart review with the quality improvement department in response to a query and assist with the chart review and assist with preparation of the response for medical review.
• Participate in the trial bill process at the branch office and assist with the review of the trial bills, problem solving, and billing preparation.
• Observe a complete interview process and role play for an interview.
Sources
• Melinda May, BHS, RN-RRT, Director of Home Health Agency, Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital, 119 Jones, El Dorado, KS 67042. Telephone: (316) 322-4540.
• Greg Solecki, Vice President for Home Health Care, Henry Ford Health System, One Ford Place, 4-C, Detroit, MI 48202. Telephone: (313) 874-3135.
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