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Volume 15 • Issue 6 • $5.00 December 2018
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS
HEALTHCARE REAL ESTATE
Safer, Healthier, Customer Driven
Hospitals Built by OHL
BY BARBARA FALLON
As a kid, did you use blankets to create a fort under
a table, or build a sand castle with buckets and shovels,
or erect a skyscraper with Legos? Most of the time, you
built with materials on-hand according to whatever
plan was in your head with little thought to what
Jay Juffre would happen when you tired of playing. Dr. Steve Ullmann
Fast forward decades and you will be blown over by
ImageFIRST: the intricacies of construction - from governmental reg- The Anticipated
ulations and codes to sustainable materials, eco-friend-
ly demands, safety and security protocols, planning for
Putting the long-term facility upgrades, engineering expertise, Impact of the
budget limitations, trends in delivery sites, emergency Frank Chang
Needs of Your communication guidelines and much more. Add to Election
that the unique mandates of health care facilities trying to retrofit or expand while
Patients First intricate surgical procedures continue in an OR down the hall and HIPAA require- on Healthcare
ments are front and center to protect patient privacy.
Frank Chang, OHL Senior Project Manager, has been with this leader in Southeast
health care construction for more than 20 years and OHL has experienced it all.
BY DANIEL CASCIATO BY STEVE ULLMANN, PH.D.
Health care construction is a mainstay at OHL and Florida area clients include Baptist
As the famous adage goes, your Health South Florida, University of Miami Health System, Nicklaus Children’s So, the midterm election of 2018 is now
patient’s needs always comes first. Continued on page 22 over. The election drew one of the largest
Healthcare providers ensure patients are electorate turnouts ever in a midterm elec-
comfortable in their setting – whether tion. Elements of the media have spoken
it’s in a hospital, doctor’s office or outpa- A Talk with Community Care Plan of the results, using the term “a blue
tient clinic – and strive to provide wave”. Indeed at the national level, the
exceptional care and quality. House did have a very significant turnover
One important aspect to this care is President and CEO of House seats from Republican to
high quality medical linens. They allow Democrat. In the Senate, the blue wave
your patients to feel more comfortable Putting Heart in Health Care Plans had not been expected to occur, and
and at ease and just as critical clean indeed, it did not.
lines can prevent the transmission of At the Florida state level it was the
germs among patients and staff. BY BARBARA FALLON Governor’s race and the U.S. Senate race
“Our clients spend tons of money on which received most of the attention, with
advertising, marketing, and analysis on If you think this is an article about claims submissions votes so close that recounts were neces-
how to improve key areas like Patient and denials, data entry instructions, provider contracts, fee sary. But the voting situation for these two
Satisfaction and Staff Engagement,” says schedules, patient codes, federal regulations or DME doc- races reflected something quite important:
Jay Juffre, executive vice president of umentation from a Provider Service Network (PSN) … that among the voting public, the elec-
ImageFIRST, a national medical linen wipe that yawn off your face and read on. torate was split right down the middle.
company. “There is no less expensive True, Community Care Plan (CCP) has earned the high- This would appear to imply that half of
way to increase both than an est accolades in quality of care indicators for the last two our state’s population is most pleased with
ImageFIRST linen or scrub program.” years, which means they meet or exceed all the regulations the outcome of the election and half of the
As the largest and leading provider of guiding the operational nuts and bolts of care and cover- state’s population is most likely disap-
medical linens to outpatient care, age; however according to Jessica Lerner, newly minted pointed with the outcome. So what may
ImageFIRST also offers its healthcare President and CEO, this is really a story about the health the election outcome mean regarding
customers the ScrubVAULT System, an plan with a heart. Jessica Lerner healthcare policy at the federal, state, and
easy-to-use cabinet with a compact It’s a compilation of more than 180 employees who care local levels, and how will it impact
footprint which was first tested at the for 100,000 members as if each individual was their only patient. The Plan offers an patients, providers, and payers? Whereas
University of Miami. excellent choice of physicians who cover a wide range of health and medical services but it is questionable whether one can rely
“This latest innovation has taken the additionally more than 50 community agencies partner with the health plan to identify entirely on our crystal ball, there are cer-
industry by storm and now is being uti- and resolve related challenges of caring for a Medicaid and self-insured population across tainly some strong indications as to where
lized in almost every major medical a large geographic footprint. policy may lead.
market in the U.S.,” says Juffre. Lerner recognizes that social determinants can negatively impact how compliant
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