Cliffs Notes version...just in case you don't have time to read all 6 pages...
We need:
- trust
- dialogue
- leadership
Uh....thanks Mr. Pryor.
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Letter to Employees, February 7, 2007
Dear DRMC Associates, Physicians and Volunteers:
Thank you for all your efforts to provide healthcare to the citizens of the Dan River Region. Providing healthcare, saving lives, and improving the quality of the lives of our friends, family and neighbors is a high calling, and you are answering that call each and every day. Delivering on the high expectations of those we serve is a tremendous responsibility, shared by everyone – physicians, nurses, technical and support staff, volunteers, managers and administration.
It’s no secret that to be successful in meeting this responsibility, we must work together. We have seen in our Emergency Department the good things that can happen when staff, physicians and management work together effectively. The reduction in wait times and fewer patients leaving without treatment are ample proof. You should all be proud of this accomplishment.
It is our hope that all of us on the hospital team, and indeed the entire community, can come together around Danville Regional and make it a source of genuine pride and positive economic activity for this area. Coming together is way overdue.
When Mr. Bill Carpenter, CEO of LifePoint and three other corporate officers were in our hospital in January, they openly apologized for mistakes made at the onset of the hospital sale. Knowing what they know at this point in time, they would have definitely done things differently. LifePoint has committed the support and resources needed to make DRMC a hospital of which we all can be proud. In addition, we, as leaders in different areas of the hospital, commit our time and energy to that same goal.
The important thing to remember is that on one person or small group can make this hospital successful. It will take the support and commitment of every single one of us who are connected to DRMC in any way. We need your help to make this happen.
Going forward won’t be easy. Any organization of this size and complexity has issues.
But it is time to move on, and move ahead. Constructive suggestions are always OK, and in fact welcomed, because there is almost always more than one “right way” to accomplish goals. Bitter, destructive criticism isn’t OK. There’s a reason they call it “holding grudges,” because the only person who feels bad is the one holding them. It’s time for us to let these go.
Good things can happen if we channel our energies on positive activities. Never has this been more important than now.
During 2006 and 2007 $26 million is being invested to create some good things – the build out of the 5th and 6th floors, the new radiation/oncology equipment, addition of PACS and a new state of the art CT machine. These improvements, coupled with your caring approach, will provide better, more complete care for our patients, close to home.
Recent patient satisfaction scores have improved, and will continue to improve as long as we focus our efforts on providing the best care for our patients and support for each other. We also fully recognize the importance of improving staff and physician satisfaction, and the positive impact this will have on the patients we serve.
We also have a big challenge that will require everyone’s best – our Joint Commission accreditation review, which will occur sometime in the next couple of months. When you think about it, it is not a stretch to say that the lifeblood of this community is dependent upon Danville Regional maintaining Joint Commission accreditation.
Joint Commission accreditation is a key to the continued success of one of the largest employers in the region, and the place where the majority of our citizens come to receive healthcare. An accredited hospital makes the community more attractive for residents who already are here, and also for those people and their employers who are looking for a good place to live, work, play and invest. It also directly impacts the livelihood of all associates and physicians.
We need to place a tremendous amount of importance and urgency around preparing for Joint Commission, because accreditation is vital to all of us. While some might think loss of accreditation hurts LifePoint, the real losers are those of us who live and work in this community. We must join together to protect one of our most valuable community assets. Our region’s economic recovery depends on it.
So we go back to our original points: we are fortunate to be in a position to serve others, which is a tremendous responsibility we accept every day. All of us want to make this a better place to work, and a better place for our neighbors to receive treatment. We are committed to supporting you and know that together we will make DRMC the very best it can be. We appreciate each of you.
Sincerely,
Dr. Betty Jo Foster
Chairman, DRMC Advisory Board
Arthur M. Doloresco
President/ CEO
Richard A. Smith, M.D.
Chief of Staff
37 comments:
"All of that said, the level of discomfort around the DRMC situation, two years in, is quite high. The exact reasons for this are beyond the scope of this report..."
So...WHAT exactly was within the scope of the report???
So...WHAT exactly was within the scope of the report???
Trust
Dialogue
Leadership
The answers to the $200 million question.
We got what we should have expected from the consultant who was paid by the Bank Boys. More important: What's Jess Judy up to this week?
Art's out
Is Jess covering for Art while he's on vacation? Or what? Maybe we'll never se Art again.
Yes, this IS an interesting site, but it sure has a lot of repetition. Maybe that's the nature of a Blog. These issues are very important to our community, and I hope something can be done about the hospital. I have not had to go there since the new people took over, but I have heard some terrible stories.
And I've heard some great stories. Anecdotal evidence proves nothing. Show me some figures on staffing, ratios, etc.
What is Bob Ashby's wife's connection to the consultant named Pryor? Her name was Pryor. Anyone know of a connection? The Ashbys don't miss a beat when it comes to grubbing money.
Why don't you ask the Ashbys instead of smearing such a rumor around the Internet?
This is all complicated if you jumped into the middle of it. Is Columbia Health Systems owned by the same people that own Life Point?
Nope. It's another group. LifePoint is a stand-alone company. Look it up on Yahoo for more information.
And this cost the Danville area $25,000 the sad part is all that information was right here in this BLOG. I only disgree with one part if Lifepoint looses enough money on DRMC over time it will cut and run but will we want back what they leave behind I dought it.
And for the Ashby defenders here he might be a good guy. But he made a big mistake in being part of this. If he had come forward in the begining and tried to help I might feel different. To me he will always be in the same group as the Boys. If your where a patient of his and he made a mistake in your treatment of the same scale you would sue him in a heart beat. I see no difference. If you step up to be a leader you better know what you are doing and be prepaired to deal with it. He stepped up but was not ready to deal with it and now he is trying to lay low. TOO LATE BIG MAN! You will always be known as the Doc who sold us out.
Art is gone.
Not on vacation.
G-O-N-E.
Noteworthy statement -
"Of the Company's (LifePoint) 53 hospitals, 49 are in communities where LifePoint Hospitals is the sole community hospital provider."
Is Art really gone?? Also heard the Director of Telemetry is gone...any truth??
What about the Chief of Nursing? Where is she?
All supposed to be announced at 4:30--10 minutes from now.
"Big News" was right.
And it might get BIGGER.
Hospital CEO Resigns
from staff reports
Danville Register and Bee
June 20, 2007
DANVILLE -- Art Doloresco resigned his position as the CEO of Danville Regional Medical Center this afternoon citing a desire to rejoin his family in Arizona. The decision was announced in a Wednesday afternoon press release issued by LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.
Doloresco is the third CEO to work at Danville Regional since LifePoint purchased the hospital in July 2005. Ruth McDaniel, the hospital’s interim chief nursing officer, will take over Doloresco’s duties until LifePoint can find a new CEO.
Read a copy of Thursday’s Register & Bee for more information about Doloresco’s announcement, his tenure at Danville Regional and what community leaders think about his decision to leave.
I guess knowing how to determine morale is not a criteria for being CEO
Hospital CEO Resigns
from staff reports
Danville Register and Bee
June 20, 2007
DANVILLE -- Art Doloresco resigned his position as the CEO of Danville Regional Medical Center this afternoon citing a desire to rejoin his family in Arizona. The decision was announced in a Wednesday afternoon press release issued by LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.
Doloresco is the third CEO to work at Danville Regional since LifePoint purchased the hospital in July 2005. Ruth McDaniel, the hospital’s interim chief nursing officer, will take over Doloresco’s duties until LifePoint can find a new CEO.
Hopefully the next CEO will "get it" and commit to our community. Art was always out of touch and Todd was an arrogant SOB.
Maybe third time is a charm (the middle guy was only an interim)
The departure of Art opens the door for effective leadership, one that will build trust to recapture the loyalty of the doctors and the patients, one that will boost the morale of the employees, one that will help bring the hospital back towards its old level of quality. One can hope...
Art resigns!
Don't kid yourself. Had Art been replaced by a fresh face with some real skills, it could be reason for hope. As it is, Ruth McDaniel is a known quantity who represents everything except a fresh start.
No way have we hit bottom yet.
Mr. Doloresco never had any intention of staying in his job for longer than a year. He was never a Lifepoint employee and is a partner in a health management consulting company that places interim CEOs. He was essentially off the job for the past couple of months anyway. He hadn't been to a Med Exec committee meeting in 3 months or a Department of Medicine meeting since January. The only Lifepoint officer who attended these meetings with any regularity was Ruth McDaniel, who happens to be the new interim CEO. With Michael Moore no longer CMO, there is essentially no leadership in the hospital now. Perhaps that's what is needed?
It's hard to think anyone with any accomplishment or leadership in the healthcare industry would want to step in to become the 5th CEO since Lifepoint took over.
Maybe this next person will have the personality to earn trust and have some free reign from his corporate masters. Ruth is just the interim, probably with Jess Judy close by. I agree five in two years would make me nervous about being number six. Hopefully by now Lifepoint has gotten the point that they need to do much better.
You may like the CEO, you may hate the CEO. Who ever the CEO is for DRMC will never change the way lifepoint runs a hospital. If you need hope you should pray for change in ownership. Lifepoint will never let go as long as they are making money. I heard about Art's departure 2 weeks ago in another Lifepoint facility. But then it was a rumer and I don't spread those. To all the DRMC employees hang in there and god bless ya.
To answer an earlier blog. Lifepoint is a spinoff of HCA (Healthcare Corporations of America), after they were fined tens of millions of dollars by the federal government for fradulant medicare and medicaid billing. HCA was started by Senator Bill Frist and his family. You remember Frist, forced to leave the Senate due to ethics violations. And yes, Lifepoint has had to pay several millions back to the state of Tennessee for fradulant billing practices. It seems all the apples do not fall far from the tree.
In other good news, Art is gone. But was he really ever here? Since he lived about 3 days in Danville and the rest of the week in Arizona. Being a long-term employee 10+years can we start a petition to have Larry Depriest rehired. For those that did not have the pleasure to work for Larry, he routinely walked the halls of DRMC and into individual departments to actually have a face-to-face conversation with his employees and knew them by name and was genuinely concerned with the people that worked for him and this community. Come on lets see if we can get Larry back (wishful thinking).
Art is gone..................
Lifepoint is still here......
The hospital is still lacking its proper accredidation.........
Morale is still low..........
Patients are going to other hospital providers...........
The BOYS AT THE BANK still have our $200 million.............
So what has changed today? Nothing, I say!!!!! And I still say>>>>>>>>>>>
BOYCOTT
the BOYS
at the BANK !!
If you want to boycott and don't know exactly WHO the BOYS are, I'm sure someone here will provide the info!
Well this report was well worth the money spent. Such a waste.
Lifepoint is still playing Danville. Art was never to stay I think this is all this is part of lifepoints recover plan. The only way I see lifepoint can make it is to let DRMC get to it's lowest point then bring it back up. Think about it the Military does this everyday. First they break you and shape you like they want. Then you are happy with what every they give you. I see this as maybe what Lifepoint is doing to recover. Art gone part of the plan now bring in a new CEO a real people person they give him room to make a few changes to make a postive impact and they win dumbville over and pick the fruit. Lets watch and see. Rember this post in time!
You are exactly right : I heard someone in the hospital say the other day : The art of war is the art of deception .
Not sure where that's from but it sounds appropriate....
Sun Tzu, The Art of War...
"All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate,"
Wonder if this is the same group who advised the Bank Boys to sell the hospital http://health-care-management-consulting.com/meet-our-authors/
Notice Keith T Pryor. WOW now that would be ironic the same people who told the bank boys to sell DRMC are now consulting CITY LEADERSHIP paid for by the BANK BOYS LMAO. Could this be true the drama keeps building. $25,000 dollars people what a wast of money. Did the report tell you anything you did not already know.
I miss the good 'ol rail ridings! Send the son of a guns packin and rebuild our hospital. That includes the sorry few given the "right" to sell off the place. Lets see how many of them are coming here for medical care. Why are they silent??? Unfortunately whoever buys DRMC from Knifepoint will be a bottom feeder who will sell off anything of value and then leave the town. It is unrealistic to expect DRMC to care for you in an emergency if it cannot care for you for elective care. Emergencies cost money, usually funded by elective procedures. If you scare away the elective people, the emergencies are not going to have a chance. So.. when you have your stroke or heart attack, and Greensboro is too far away, and time is brain or heart, sorry because you did not stay in town for your "elective" care. You have 60 minutes to save your brain or heart. I would not want to count on Moses Cone. So don't give up, make DRMC the place to go!
My daddy always said be careful what you ask for...you might wish Art stayed. Look what you have now. OMG this woman is not trustworthy and had not an ounce of humanity. it is all about her. Look how she walks and talks...she thinks she is the gift. Unfortunately the gift was bought at the expense of many. We ar ein for much trouble.
Yeah, but did your Daddy ever tell you that if it looks like a snake, sounds like a snake, then it must be a snake......
Yes, she is a snake. I have seen her bite.
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