July 1997, Volume 21, Number 7
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July 1997, Volume 21, Number 7 |
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Operations Improvement 8 teams reach target after months of effort
Faced with comprehensive changes and opportunities expected from a clinical merger with UCSF, SHS teams looked inward to complete the 1997 Operations Improvement (OI) program by identifying nearly $20 million in budget improvements.
COLUMNS Chief of Staff
NEWS
Operations Improvement 8 teams reach targets after months of effort Johnson Center combines obstetrics and neonatology Discharge summaries must be dictated before patients move to SNF Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorder Service opens for referrals Urogynecology center forges ahead with new director, collaborations Physician volunteers sought for RotaCare clinic in East Palo Alto Rizk succeeds Rosenthal as head of ICUs Winning nurses find uses for stipends If it's clean, it goes in green
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Cancelled
The UCSF/Stanford Health Care Town Hall Forum originally scheduled for Wednesday, July 30 has been cancelled. Johnson Center combines obstetrics and neonatology The Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services at Stanford is slated for start-up Sept. 1, combines Packard Hospital's neonatology and developmental services with SHS' perinatal service under one clinical service line.  The center brings the F1 and F2 units, labor and delivery, well-baby nursery, childbirth
education program, lactation center, perinatal diagnostic center and obstetric clinics under the
LPCH license, said David Stevenson (left), director of the Johnson Center and chief of the Division of
Neonatology.
"The obstetrical and neonatology services are already highly interdependent and include many of the same families," noted Stevenson. "The center streamlines the process of care for both patients and physicians." Physicians should notice various improvements in services and efficiency, but essentially the change, timed to coincide with activation of the merger of Stanford and UCSF's clinical operations, should be seamless for both referring and practicing physicians in the neonatal and obstetrics areas, Stevenson said. Physicians who refer patients to services at the center, and doctors who practice in the neonatal and obstetric areas, will be provided with detailed information, if procedural changes occur, he said.
The center's ties are with the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics' Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine-- which offers all obstetrical services to women from simple deliveries through the most medically complex pregnancies ‹ and the Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, which provides care for more than 1,400 critically ill or recovering infants each year. The pediatric division's newborn nursery handles more than 4,000 births each year. |
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The Johnson Center was made possible by a gift of $5 million from Charles B. and Ann L.
Johnson. In addition to combining pregnancy and newborn patient services offered by SHS and
LPCH, the gift creates an endowed professorship. Maurice Druzin, chief of the Division of
Maternal-Fetal Medicine, recently was named the Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Professor and
also co-director of the center.