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NOW! Changes in Wireless Networks
10th Annual Summer Celebration
WHAT: | 10th Annual Summer Celebration |
DATE: | Saturday, August 1, 2015 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. |
WHERE: | North Central Baptist Hospital 520 Madison Oak Drive San Antonio, TX 78258 Maps & Directions |
What to Expect:
- FREE Stuffed Animal and Toy Check Up Clinic
- FREE Family Photo at the “Summer Fun” Photo Booth
- FREE Food
- FREE Rides and Attractions including Rock Climbing Wall, Inflatable Obstacle Course, Trackless Train, Face Painting, Balloon Animals, and MORE!
- FREE Health Screenings
- REGISTER for our FREE Kid’s Cooking Workshop for ages 4-10 years at 10:30 a.m. and noon in Atrium Classroom 1A/1B. Call (210) 297-7005 to reserve your space.
- FREE Live Entertainment and Performances.
- $10 Athletic Physicals provided by Baptist Sports Medicine and their orthopedic doctors. A release form and parent permission forms will need to be signed on site.
For more information call (210) 297-7005.
Download the flyer
Now! Outstanding Medical Records
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NOW! Additional info: Changes coming to WiFi Networks
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North Central Baptist Hospital Breaks Ground on $50 Million Destination for Orthopedic Innovation
(SAN ANTONIO)— Baptist Health System broke ground today on its new $50 million institute dedicated to orthopedic innovation which will be housed at North Central Baptist Hospital. The new three-story, 76,800 square foot building will offer patient-centered orthopedic care that address the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system, including:
- Joint replacement and arthritis
- Sports medicine injuries
- Arthroscopic surgery
- Spine treatment
- Care and surgery of the shoulder, elbow, hand, wrist, knee, foot and ankle
The building will transform the façade of NCBH, creating a new hospital entrance off of Madison Oak. Its design will be unlike any in San Antonio with a hotel-like experience focused on patient comfort and healing. Slated for completion in fall 2016, the building will house an 18-bed pre-operation unit, a 15-bed post-anesthesia care unit; 10 operation and recovery rooms and a 30-bed inpatient unit. Upon opening, the new orthopedic institute will offer patients additional services including:
- Hand therapy and physical therapy
- Industrial rehabilitation
- Worker’s comp
- Digital imaging
- Outpatient surgery
- Orthopedic urgent care
Tethered Cord is topic of Aug. 19 Pedi Clinical Services Meeting and CME
ICD-10 virtual code book app is yours FREE
Additional information is available at www.precyse.com/precyseuniversity/mobilesolutions_icd10virtualcodebook.php
Contact Leslie Exton via email at
leslie.exton@baptisthealthsystem.com
NOW! TDSHS issues Anthrax advisory
CPN downtime scheduled Sept. 2
- On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 beginning at 8:00am, CPN (including central fetal surveillance) will be unavailable for approximately 8 hours while an application upgrade is performed.
- Workflows for the following users will be impacted in the following manner:
- OB Link in Portal & Airstrip OB will not be available for remote viewing of census, chart, or strips
- Downtime forms will need to be used during the upgrade
- All delivery and surgical information will need to be entered into the system once restored to maintain the integrity of the birth and surgical logs
- Mother-Baby Links will need to be created on any delivery during downtime to populate newborn log books and maintain newborn records
- Potential delay in record requests & Coldfeed
- CPN reports unavailable during downtime
- CPN
Share your comments on the Baptist School of Health Professions
The Baptist School of Health Professions – Department of Professional Nursing wishes to announce that it will host a site review for continuing accreditation of its associate degree in nursing program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) from September 22 – 24, 2015.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
4:00 p.m.
Baptist School of Health Professions
8400 Datapoint Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78216
Dr. Marsal Stoll, Chief Executive Officer Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing at:
3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 850
Atlanta, GA 30326
Or via e-mail: mstoll@acenursing.org
All written comments should be received by the ACEN by September 17, 2015.
Save the Date! General Medical Staff Meeting Oct. 29
Save the date for a new concept in our fall General Medical Staff Meeting. (Details will come soon in your formal invitation.)
Date: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015
Location: Omni Hotel on I-10
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Program: Mark Montoney, MD, Tenet Physician Leader. CME is being planned, and details will follow soon.
PHO Conference: Practicing Medicine. What's Next?
Free ICD-10 Documentation Tip Cards available to you by specialty
The BHS Training and Education Workgroup for Optimal Documentation and ICD-10 Adoption is pleased to announce the release of ICD-10 Documentation Tip Cards by physician specialty.
There are approximately twenty specialty specific cards available for both adult and pediatric practitioners in the following areas:
- Anesthesia
- Cardiology
- CV/CV Surgery
- Critical Care
- ENT
- ER
- Endocrine
- GI
- General Surgery
- Internal and Family Medicine
- Heme/Onc
- Infectious Disease
- Mental Health
- Nephrology/Urology
- Neurology/Neurosurgery
- Newborn
- Ob/Gyn
- Orthopedics
- Pulmonary
- Trauma
These will be distributed by various means: in physician lounges, medical staff meetings, and physician and non-physician practitioner work areas.
Each facility is also supported a physician champion and clinical documentation specialists who will have additional copies for you in case you did not receive them. Their contact information is posted on the ICD-10 link on the BHS Physician web page.
All of the tip cards are free of charge courtesy of Tenet and BHS. These cards have been created by 3M, a well-respected expert in the field of provider documentation and ICD-10 adoption. The BHS medical staff is highly encouraged to take advantage of this excellent education resource. It will assist you in your optimal documentation efforts which is one part, but a very important one, in the care of all our patients.
Thank you for your participation and support in the work of the Baptist Health System.
Dana Kellis, MD, PhD, MBA William Bradshaw, MD
Chief Medical Officer Physician Champion
[CHECKLIST] Elements of Optimal ICD-10 Documentation
Here are the elements of Optimal Documentation:
- Age and gender
- Initial, or follow-up visit?
- Principal treating diagnosis
- Acute
- Chronic
- Acute on chronic
- Laterality
- Exact anatomical location
- Can use probable, suspected, likely
- Due to:
- Organism
- Underlying disease process
- Activity
- Location, circumstances
- Associated conditions
- Comorbidities treated to include medications
- Final diagnosis
- Probable, likely, suspected should not be used here
Remember that ICD-10 is much more specific than was ICD-9, so it will better describe the conditions your patient exhibits.
Thank you for your participation and support in the work of the Baptist Health System.
Dana Kellis, MD, PhD, MBA William Bradshaw, MD
Chief Medical Officer Physician Champion
FDA warns of Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis induced by SGLT2 Inhibitors
Oct. 29 General Medical Staff Meeting details released
Your live RSVP link is here!
'Scoliosis & Spine Surgery' is Oct. 21 topic of Pedi Clinical Services meeting
NCBH to pilot re-route of Atrium parking garage [START DATE October 20]
Many pedestrians walk between the parking garage and the Atrium Medical Office Building entrance, and there also is a great deal of vehicle traffic between the two structures. In an effort to prevent accidents there, we must make a change in our parking garage at the southeast end of the property adjacent to the Emergency Room entrance.
Mike King, Facilities and Engineering Director and I have conducted a risk assessment and developed a plan to make the parking garage entrance and exit on the South end of the structure (closest to Sonterra).
Beginning October 20, 2015 we will test our plan for one weeks’ time. We will block off the current entry point and re-route traffic through the back end of the parking structure to accommodate entry and exit. A Baptist employee will observe the changes and their impact during peak times for the duration of the week.
We are open for feedback; please contact security at 210-297-4850 with any safety concerns you experience.
We look forward to a safer parking structure for you and the community we serve.
Thank you,
Ronni N Storey
Director Safety & Security
North Central Baptist Hospital
Physician Survey starts Oct. 26: Watch for your code and invitation
Reminder: Synapse Mobility is Available Through CITRIX
*You will use your CITRIX login information (username/password) to access Synapse Mobility.