The Volunteer Voice
E-Newsletter
September 21st, 2018
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Patient Centered Medical Home Update
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During this week's PCMH conference call, VIM staff reviewed the clinic's
Gap Analysis Worksheet
with the Americares team. The group reviewed the clinic's Quality Improvement infrastructure, the
six domains
of healthcare quality and the NCQA standards for QI.
The next assignment for VIM to complete is a
PDSA Worksheet
. This Plan-Do-Study-Act Worksheet will assist the clinic in documenting a test of change for the
implementation
of new programs as the PCMH certification process progresses.
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VIM Attends Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's Community Service Fair
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On Thursday, September 13th,
Amanda Ankner
, Development Manager, and
Chelsea Collins
, Social Care Coordinator, attended Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine's Community Service Fair at the campus in Scranton. The students were
very interested
to learn about all of the
services the clinic
provides to eligible patients and they look forward to volunteering in the future.
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VIM Attends United Way Kickoff Event
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On Thursday, September 13th,
Darcie Schaffer
, Dental Clinic Manager,
Kelly Ranieli
, Executive Director, and
Amanda Ankner
, Development Manager, attended the
United Way's Annual Kick-off Dinner
at Mohegan Sun Casino. The evening's keynote speaker was
Father Greg Boyle
, founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention and
rehabilitation program
in the world. His powerful presentation touched everyone in attendance.
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Pictured from left:
Darcie Schaffer
,
Kelly Ranieli
and
Amanda Ankner
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Father Greg Boyle
, founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles
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Bill Jones
, President of the United Way
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Social Care Coordinator Attends National Association of Social Workers Conference
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On Friday, September 14th,
Chelsea Collins
attended the
Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Worker’s
annual conference at Kalahari Conference Center. Chelsea participated in the
“Integrated Behavioral Health Certification”
training. The training was a 7-hour intensive workshop and focused on social workers’ roles in helping integrate and expand behavioral health services in a primary care physician offices. After
successfully completing
the training, Chelsea received a certificate for providing integrated healthcare services in a primary care setting.
She also ran into
Dr. Weinman
during the lunch break which was a happy and unexpected surprise! Dr. Weinman was attending the conference with his wife, who is also a social worker.
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VIM's Attends Race for the Cure
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On Saturday, September 15th,
Amanda Ankner
,
Marie Thomas
, 1st Chair of VIM's Board of Directors, and students from
Wilkes University's Pharmacy Program
, hosted a grantee's table at the Susan G. Komen Race for a Cure in downtown Scranton.
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VIM Provides Dental Screenings to the Children's Development Council of NEPA
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On Thursday, September 13th,
Darcie Schaffer
,
Shelby Goss
, VIM's Dental Hygienist and
Dr. Mahima Singh
, VIM's Dental Director, provided dental screenings at the
Children's Development Council of NEPA's
Nesbitt Center in Kingston. One of the children was afraid of seeing the dentist so he decided to make Dr. Singh a
firefighter
for the day!
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On Friday, September 14th,
Darcie
,
Shelby
and
Dr. Caroline Zielinski
, volunteer dentist at VIM, provided dental screenings at the
Children's Development Council's Wilkes-Barre Center
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Welcome to our New Students,
Residents and Volunteers
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Sara Herr
, a student from Marywood University, is completing a field placement in a
Masters of Social Work
program at the clinic. She will be observing Chelsea, seeing patients and assisting with the
Health Equity Program
until May 2019.
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VIM welcomes
Alicia Derwin
and
Julie Suchocki
from
Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center's Nursing Program
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VIM welcomes
Rachelle Radziewicz
and
Jessica Thomas
from
Luzerne County Community College's Dental Hygiene Program
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Della Huffman
, a Geisinger Family Medicine Resident, spent time seeing patients in
conjunction with Dr. Scott
at the clinic this week. She was happy to be assigned to VIM because she gained
experience treating patients
in a free clinic setting.
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Recently, a student from Luzerne County Community College's
Dental Hygiene Program
performed a deep cleaning on a patient that hadn't seen a dentist in over ten years. Often times, patients that come to VIM's dental clinic have
numerous caries
and require 2-4 appointments to get
out of pain
and on a preventative care schedule.
During the appointment, the student encountered
unusually thick
and large calculus that had accumulated behind the patient's lower anterior teeth. Due to the
extreme circumstances
, the student notified Dr. Singh before beginning the patient's procedure.
Because of the extent of the
calculus build-up
and the amount of time the deep cleaning takes, only one quadrant of the mouth was able to be completed. An
additional three appointments
will be needed to complete the patient's scaling and root planning procedure.
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Save the Date
Upcoming Educational Community In-Services
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Learning about other Luzerne County
community agencies in order to refer patients
is one of the many ways that VIM provides case management services. If you would like to join us for the next presentation, please
RSVP to Chelsea at
[email protected]
or 570-970-2864
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Tuesday, September 25th
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Wyoming Valley AIDS Council
Tuesday, October 23rd
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Patient Centered Medical Home
Presented by Kelly Ranieli, VIM's Executive Director
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Volunteers
in
Medicine
190 North Pennsylvania Avenue
Wilkes-Barre PA 18702
website www.vimwb.org
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