This role was created in early 2012 as part of SHSSR's ongoing commitment to ensuring a safe journey for all patients, visitors and employees.
What is the Safe Journey Delegate?
100
This will be Sutter's standard approach to achieving highly efficient work processes. It involves a commitment to thinking and acting in a way that creates value for customers, while minimizing waste.
What is LEAN?
100
To achieve our vision for the future, we must deliver this to every client.
What is "exceptional value"?
100
ACO
What is the acronym for Accountable Care Organization?
100
Our regional lab Quality Management Program is based on this model.
What is the CLSI Quality Management System?
200
5,200 SHSSR hospital staff completed this in 2012.
What is the Culture of Safety Survey?
200
This news blog was created for all employees within Sutter Health and can be accessed on every affiliate's Sutter SharePoint.
What is WithinUS?
200
Continue our transformation...personalize every patient experience...and grow our services.
What are the strategic priorities of "Our Path Forward"?
200
Sutter Health projects that Medicare reimbursement will decrease by this amount over the current decade.
What is $2 billion?
200
The lab mascot's name is an acronym that stands for this phrase.
What is BOLT, "bringing outstanding laboratory testing"?
300
Reporting and learning from these is an essential aspect of designing safe care processes.
What is a "good catch"?
300
This is the name of Sutter Health's 2012 - 2016 strategic plan, which has the strategic priorities of transform, personalize and grow.
What is "Our Path Forward"?
300
We have these three behaviors (or capacities) within us. They are considered essential to unlocking our full potential, enabling is to make a positive and life-changing difference for our patients and communities.
What are compassion, collaboration and creativity?
300
This Health Care Reform law was upheld by the Supreme Court in June 2012.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
300
The laboratory became a regionalized service in this year.
What is 1999?
400
This was called the "Sixth Vital Sign" at the SHSSR 2012 Diabetes Symposium.
What is blood glucose level?
400
The name of this project, completed in 2012, reflects its goal, which was to radically improve the functionality of EPIC.
What is PTEM - Project Transform EPIC Migration?
400
Sutter Health leads the transformation of health care to achieve the highest levels of quality, access and affordability.
What is Sutter Health's vision?
400
This SMF team-based approach to patient care celebrated its 1st anniversary in November 2012. In this model, a multi-disciplinary team supports a patient's health care needs at the right time, in the right place and by the right team member.
What is Sutter's Patient Centered Medical Home?
400
The SMF PSC's (including SMF-N) are located in these counties.
What are Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, Placer, and Amador, Yuba?
500
On November 28th, James Conforti announced that all SHSSR hospitals earned this Hospital Safety Score from the Leapfrog Group.
What is "A".
500
The new Sutter Shared Service Center came about from a system wide transformation initiative. The Center brings multiple business service departments together under roof. It is going to be located within SHSSR region, in this city.
What is Roseville?
500
This is one of the three breakthrough initiatives identified to support Sutter's strategic priorities. It involves implementing systems and adopting efficiencies to deliver high value care (a powerful combination of high clinical quality, exceptional service, and lower costs) to our communities.
What is total care accontability?
500
In September 2012, Sutter Health submitted an application to the California Department of Managed Care for this license. If approved, this license will enable us to create and offer a Sutter-sponsored helath plan for consumers.
What is a Knox-Keene license?
500
This test was ordered with the highest frequency for SHSSR hospital patients in 2012.