The Systemwide Clinical Leadership Council (SCLC) serves as the senior clinical advisory council for Ascension Health’s Priorities for Action and Core Measures. Supporting the commitment to Healing without Harm by 2014, this group also provides leadership in an effort to strengthen Systemwide clinical operations and ensure clinically excellent, safe, holistic care to those we serve.
The SCLC oversees and charters highly focused work teams on special areas of system-wide clinical interest. Recommendations are vetted and implemented through the Clinical Leadership Forum comprised of representation from all Ascension Health Ministries. Health Ministry representation on the SCLC Council assures solid understanding, input and decision-making from eachl regional market area. The Council has strong connections with other Ascension Health functional system departments and committees to ensure appropriate collaboration and interdisciplinary team effort.
The Ascension Health Chief Nursing Officers (CNO) have created a Council of 8 Chief Nursing Officers who set strategic direction and priorities within a Shared Governance model of decision-making. Each Council member facilitates regional CNOs ‘pods’ to vet and build consensus on patient care processes and patient safety issues. The entire groups of Chief Nursing Officers are represented in the annual Forum (all CNOs) where all CNOs meet annually. This governance model has resulted in rapid dissemination and implementation of care process improvements and evidenced-based standards such as pressure ulcers.
PARTICIPANTS:
Joyce Batcheller-Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, Texas
Ann Hendrich-Ascension Health System Office, St. Louis, Missouri
Karen Lee-Carondelet Health, Kansas City, Missouri
Linda Miller –Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, New York
Troy Reiff-St.Vincent Health, Indianapolis, Indiana
Geri Staffileno-Columbia St. Mary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Maria Strom-St. John Health System, Detroit, Michigan
Judy Tatman-Carondelet Health Network, Tucson, Arizona
Cindy Williams –St. Vincent's Health System, Birmingham, Alabama
Magnet Status
he Chief Nursing Officers have adopted the 7 forces of Magnetism as guiding principles for all hospital environments at Ascension Health.Three Ascension Health ministries, Seton Family of Hospitals, Carondelet Health
, and Lourdes Hospital
have received Magnet Status from the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center (ANCC) and many more are on the journey to Magnet status.
The Ascension Health Patient Safety Council has interdisciplinary representation from Ascension Health ministries that includes physicians, nurses, pharmacists, risk, and quality professionals. The group’s primary aim is to operationalize the Healing without Harm by 2014 agenda while overseeing patient safety priorities for the system.
In August 2006, Ascension Health developed "A Leadership Framework for Culture Change in Health Care " and in December 2007 developed "The Ascension Health Journey to Zero: Lessons Learned and Leadership Perspective " for the peer-reviewed Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
