Rush University Medical Center

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Rush University Medical Center

• Gift of Hope
• Organ Donation Collaborative

October 22, 2009
Hawaii or Bust

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Or a dash through Peoria and Springfield in 24
hoursorgan donation collaborative style!
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Either wayIt takes a team to make it all happen!
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And, The Team Showed Up!!!

• A Few of My Peer Assist Champions
• Tracy Spinks
• Kimberly Thrush
• Becky Ames
• Jan Burnham, RN
• Suzanne Faulkner
• Lori Wiegand, RN
• Jessica Knirk, MD
• Leslie Wilke, MD
• Brett Kesselring and his awesome collaborative
  team
• The tour guides at St. Francis and Memorial
• GOH and RUMC for letting us go

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Community of Practice

• Peer Assist Visits what are they?
• They are like standing on the shoulders of giants
• They are the ultimate visiting professorship
  program
• They are focused on collaborative partnering
• They are fountains of free flowing information
  and personal experiences

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Community of Practice

• ICARE Values in action
• I Innovation
• C Collaboration
• A Accountability
• R Respect
• E Excellence
• The ultimate family task division process, or a
  typical
• Saturday morning in the Walsh home growing up
  where
• we heard, rise and shine, because we have work to
  do
• and

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Many Hands Make Light Work (My mothers
favorite pearl of wisdom)
Dad, Mom, Tom, Ann, Kathryn and Alison
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What we hoped to accomplish?

• Assess and determine our role by
• Representing the RUMC mission, vision and values
• Contributing our enthusiasm and expertise in
  seeking ways to improve our overall performance
• Working with colleagues and employees raising
  awareness and advocacy around transplant and
  organ donation
• Serving as organ donation champions and
  ambassadors
• Helping identify and remove barriers to
  transplant and organ donation at RUMC
• Recognizing and helping represent transplant and
  organ donation as the Gift of Life
• Committing to assist in advocacy, problem-solving
  and training, as necessary, at and around our
  medical center

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Teamwork/Organizational Strategy

• Subgroup One
• Education, Awareness and Advocacy
• (Co-chair, Alison Walsh)
• Subgroup Two
• Internal Ambassadors and Community Outreach
• (Co-chair, Rachel Thomas)
• Subgroup Three
• Policy, Process and Operational Improvements
• (Co-chairs, Brad Hinrichs and Tracy Spinks)

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Organ Donation Month At Rush

• Our First Formal Event - What was done?
• Events were sponsored
• Cafeteria - Atrium - All campus blood and donor
  drive
• Embraced and exhibited the institutional vision
  and mission of organ donation
• Assembled a dedicated team
• Utilized a patient and family centered care
  approach mentoring, coaching, teaching
• Viewed the process through the eyes of the
  patients and family members
• Managed the numbers and outcomes

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Organ Donation Month At Rush

• What was accomplished?
• 140 new organ donor registrations on site
• Many more registrants (likely 50-60) who
  preferred to sign up on line
• Educated any one who would listen to the
  possibilities and opportunities gained from organ
  donation
• Changed many myths to facts and even altered the
  belief of one who thought it was a religious
  issue in her denomination

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It Takes a Team

• And many colleagues, willing to
• share their resources,
• to pave the way!