Medical Staff Update

Volume 24 • No. 2 • February 2000 --9

DeMerger expected to be final on April 1. Children's services go separate ways, too

Physician order entry begins on units in October

Medicare HMO patients shifted to fee-for-service coverage

Team named to select dean

Snapshot of 3rd Stanford kidney transplant patient and donor

Patient education gets a boost

Coaches vs. cancer

PAST ISSUES

Oncologists Charlotte Jacobs and George Fisher join Stanford basketball festivities and receive check from "Coaches vs. Cancer" fundraiser on Jan. 27.
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Want a Lift?

Auxiliary volunteers Jan Roberts and Mel Clark demonstrate a new electric "courtesy cart" developed to transport patients. Clark, a retired personnel executive who once trained drivers for United Parcel Service, helped the auxiliary develop its cart program. He's been an auxiliary member for two years. The electric-powered vehicle - the first patient transport vehicle of its kind in Bay Area hospitals - was custom designed for Stanford and donated to the hospital through the Auxiliary. The cart can be used inside or outside buildings for such services as transporting a limited mobility patient from the hospital to Blake Wilbur Clinic. For information or to refer volunteers to serve as drivers, call 723-6636.

PAMF research seminars

Tuesday noon seminars continue at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Research Institute.xxxxxxxSee upcoming speaker schedule

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Demerger expected to be final on April 1
Children's services go separate ways, too

Plans for dissolution of the UCSF Stanford merger are moving forward with a goal of completing the process by April 1, although sharing of financial profits and losses are scheduled to end Feb. 29, announced Malinda Mitchell, chief operating officer at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Mitchell told the Deputy Chiefs/Medical Center Task force on Jan. 19 that the merged entity may continue as an organization after April 1 to complete a variety of administrative issues. The announcement in January that children's services would not be merged left the possibility that homecare might continue as the only joint program between UCSF and Stanford after the dissolution of the merger. Mitchell said the program could be run as a joint venture by the two organizations.