Mercy Medical Center Site Visit March 9
ACPE Program # 215-999-04-930-L05-P (3.0 contact hours/0.3 CEUs).
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Mercy’s
chief patient safety and quality officer, Dr. Wilma Rowe,
and her whole medication-safety team answer your toughest
questions. Get answers to how to gather intake lists, how
to get physician buy-in and the hidden pitfalls of medication
automation. Hurry, space is limited!
1:00
p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Meet with Mercy Medical’s Patient
Safety Team
Wilma Rowe, MD, Chief Quality Officer, Patient Safety Officer
Beth Kilmoyer, RN, MS, Pharmacy Information Manager
Mary Covacevich, RN, Senior IT Analyst
Rebecca Schulkoski, Pharmacy
Chip Hatchell, RN, BSN, Risk Manager
Speak directly with Mercy’s medication safety team members during this interactive presentation – you will be able to actually use some of the medication safety tools! Topics covered will include:
- Background on Mercy Medical Center, including services it offers
- Medication reconciliation process and systems
- Bedside medication verification system
- Pharmacy safety initiatives
- Medication safety initiatives from the physician practices they own
- A hands-on demonstration of Mercy's bar coding system
- Other bar coding medication safety initiatives
- Time for Q and A
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tour Mercy Medical Center
Take a tour of Mercy Medical Center and see how it has implemented
medication safety into the hospital culture. You’ll
tour Mercy's many departments including:
- Admissions – see how medication intake lists are gathered
- A patient transfer point – see how medication reconciliation is checked
- Discharge – see how final medication lists are given to the patients
- Pharmacy
- Physician practice – see their unique system
- Nursing Units – see how medication is administered
- Outpatient areas – see how medication reconciliation is done differently
- Bar code scanners at bedside – see them in action
You will be able to take these real world lessons
back to your own hospital and put them to use!
