We’ve talked about the evolution of healthcare and driving things outside of hospital for my entire career.
The weekly magazine, websites, research and databases provide a powerful and all-encompassing industry presence. We found that here within Franciscan, and even more so, being part of the CommonSpirit family. With care sites across Washington state, CHI Franciscan has been on the front lines of contending with COVID-19. Now, everybody had things at their fingertips all throughout Franciscan at the same time.One of the things we’re looking at now coming out of this is whether we’ll continue to need all the 200-plus clinic sites because we’re starting to see that as our consumers and patients have had the opportunity to have virtual visits, they’re getting more accustomed to it.We have five regions within the Pacific Northwest, three in the state of Washington and two in Oregon. Our Emergency Services departments are located throughout the Puget Sound: That’s where we are not only opening our family medical practice clinic, but we’re also expanding our Silverdale location with about a $500 million project … that’s truly spectacular.Every patient room has views of the Olympic Mountains. And as part of CommonSpirit Health, CHI Franciscan has been able to share best practices across a large national network. It allowed us to communicate exponentially, where, historically, we relied on a lot of phone calls. So it was an opportunity for us, having had a few months of the mission control center up and running, to put this into practice in different ways.I’ll give you two specific examples. Join the conversation with Modern Healthcare through our social media pagesNuvance Health dinged with credit downgrade, could face another Anne, historically, has had quite a number of beds available. Lloyd Dean, who’s now our single CEO, has just been tremendous in his strength of making sure that we have the resources we need.One of the singular lessons we have learned is that communication is absolutely key. For the best site viewing experience please upgrade your browser to Internet Explorer 10 or above Ketul Patel, CEO of CHI Franciscan and president of the Pacific Northwest division of CommonSpirit HealthWith care sites across Washington state, CHI Franciscan has been on the front lines of contending with COVID-19 since the virus first reached the U.S. early this year. And as we all know now, there was so much misinformation.
So it’s an exciting time for us.It allows us to be sustainable for a very long time. Even though we’ve been hit very hard through the pandemic, we have a very good forecast for the future. This includes St. Local COVID-19 testing is available at CHI Franciscan Prompt Care in Gig Harbor, Washington, USA. In an effort to expand access to affordable care during the global COVID-19 outbreak, CHI Franscisan is suspending patient billing for testing and treatments of the virus. And we’re taking a hard pause in terms of our strategy.Some of the plans that we had in place—particularly at Franciscan for projects to expand St. Joseph Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Center—are going to be put on hold. These are projects that we’ve had ongoing for the last couple of years.The one you talked about we actually kicked off in 2017 with a family medicine residency program. Our skilled emergency medical teams are always here to provide advanced emergency and trauma care when you need it most. We’re going to take a hard look to see, “Do we now need to do a lot more virtual? CHI Franciscan has been on the front lines of contending with COVID-19 since the virus first reached the U.S. early this year. And the more we can truly impact the cost curve, not only regionally but nationally. And this has driven us to mature as a health system. The CHI Franciscan system, as part of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, includes eight acute care hospitals and more than 200 clinics — all of which are covered in the billing suspension effort. Who would’ve thought, after all this time, that we would be ramping up for what’s happened with the pandemic. The more we keep patients out of the hospital, the better it is for all of us. And from that, we started to see spikes.St. Our skilled emergency medical teams are always here to provide advanced emergency and trauma care when you need it most. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information CHI Franciscan announced earlier today that 11 COVID-19 triage centers have opened around Washington. The system has learned a lot and had the benefit of … Guidance continued to evolve with the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and other parts of the country were certainly getting the kind of fear that we were starting to see.
We actually stood up our mission control and our command center in preparation for all this in January, knowing what was happening in China, assuming that at some point it was going to come here.So we had a couple of months to plan, but when we saw our first case, which happened to be on Feb. 29, nobody was ready for that. Do we need to do a lot more in an ambulatory setting with a lot smaller footprint?” Those are the types of things we’re going to look at right now.CommonSpirit, at the time when the pandemic started, was less than a year old. These triage centers, which includes Franciscan Prompt Care in Bonney Lake, Canyon Road, St. Joseph, Gig Harbor, and Burien, the Franciscan Medical Clinics in Federal Way and Enumclaw, the Harrison Belfair Urgent Care, the Harrison Port Orchard Urgent Care, and the Doctors Clinic Ridgetop … Early on, one of our campuses, St. Anne Hospital, which is in the shadows of Seattle, started seeing patients from the nursing home in Kirkland that was at the epicenter of what was going on. We started to see record highs of occupancy on that campus and it allowed us to start looking at other parts of our system to see where could we potentially take care of patients if the surge continued.It also allowed us to bond further as a regional system in Tacoma. We help you make informed business decisions and lead your organizations to success. Seattle became the first hot spot in the country. CHI Franciscan, which recently announced a merger with Virginia Mason Health System, has learned a lot and had the benefit of tapping into a year-old mission control center that relies heavily on artificial intelligence to help drive decisionmaking.