Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care

Of the American Hospital Association

June 16, 2000 Chapter Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order at 9:20

Announcements:

• .9 FTE opening at Columbia

NASW report: Chris Hoffschmidt

• Ethics Ed, Lobby Day, State Conference
• Expanding programs with Chapters educational efforts; Submit suggestions to WI NASW
• March 3, Children and Violence Conference
• Annual State Conference last May: 582 attendees
• Fall Ethic Series: 1-day offerings
• 2001 conference at Milwaukee, May 9-11, Sheraton
• March 2001, Lobby Day
• PACE is major focus of the policy committee for this election year
• BSW certification will not be eliminated
• Retain the clinical SW title – Advisory Committee hearing on June 21, July 19, Dept of Reg. and Licensing, Madison/10-3pm
• Brenda Johnson will represent the WI Chapter/SSWLHC at proposed Psychotherapy Licensure committee meetings
• UW has decided to keep the Bachelor, SW major
• All 11,000 state certified social workers will receive information regarding educational opportunities
• There is no WI mechanism for pre-approving non CEU education hours

Joe Gilson’s Retirement

Recognition was made to Joe Gilson, who is retiring from his position as Chief of Social Work at the VA Hospital in Madison. Joe was recognized for his many contributions to the Chapter, the National Society and the profession of social work.

Treasure’s report: Dave Schmidt

• Checkbook balance: $4,454.53
• FY begins in January

Committee Reports:

Health Policy: Mike St. John, Committee Chair

• Expansion of Badger Care
• HIPPA is lurking
• Patient Rights
• State Disability plan draft is out, affects waiting lists
• E-mail or call Mike if you would like to join the committee

Membership: Brenda Johnson, Committee Chair

• Recruitment and retention is key focus
• Input on web page
• Institute newsletter again?
• Contact your officers if you are interested in helping with membership

Nominating Committee: Brenda Johnson, Committee Chair

• September nominations process will be started
• Board positions to be filled are: Pres.-elect, secretary and one board member at large

Information Sharing:

Handouts:

• "A Gift to Your Family", Consumer Guide on Advance Care Planning
• "Social Work Education for Practice in Health Care"

COP Update: Pat Anderson

• Two handouts with minutes
• Family Care, three counties fully operational to date; implementation is slowing down and no new pilot applications will be budgeted for until 2003
• Wisconsin Centenarians
• Administrative on Aging/CWAG meeting
• Associated handouts

Web Technology: Neil O’Connor

• Viewed other web sites - Association of Oncology Social Work
• Web Site is used as a membership resource.
• Skeleton design was viewed for proposed Chapter website; Chapter site would include Navigation sites, Hyper links for membership, Chapter meeting minutes, meeting dates and member news that we all can send information to.
• Membership information: costs, contact /no cash via Email. Also available would be committee reports
• Resources Links to NASW & other organizations. This resource requires board direction as to what organizations we desire to link with. To proceed, theme must be decided and site MUST be kept updated. Time dated material must be posted timely.
• Server is available through national. The state Chapter then must handle updates. WI Chapter board to discuss use of Web:

• Minutes
• Job openings
• Information sharing

• Comments:
• Legislative Link to enable contacts with politicians, though some politicians require hard copy letters
• Work with your hospital web builders because Social Workers are communications driven. Things that can be put on the web are:
• Assessment forms online
• Resource Directory online
• Agencies have strict firewalls to screen attachments thus downloads from the website are the mode of information distribution
• JCAHO comment section, link may provide industry input from other disciplines
• Chat rooms may not be a time efficient tool for communication during the workday
• AHA has a message service function that may be an idea to utilize (web list)
• Membership List with dues check off list, individual Email addresses to be listed—Would users need a password to enter site?

Conference Sharing

Case Management Society of America, Tampa

• Same issues among this group that SW have had over the years
• Relationships with other disciplines
• RN have been better than showing their value to the organization than SWs have
• Data collection
• Does a CCM need to also be NASW member?
• Much of the membership is insurance based: many vendors at the conference

Social Work and Case Management: merging NACM and ACM, Las Vegas

• Merging nursing and social work functions
• Ongoing polar perspectives
• Core competency: the ability to link: this is a SW skill
• How to determine the correct caseload per social worker
• Outcome measurement: what is it that we do that helps a positive outcome?
• Advocacy, cost efficient, id case factors, family contact,
• Case management is still identified as a nursing provided function

SSWLHC conference, Orlando

• Publication: "Continuum"; John Reynolds an excellent article on Case Management in Feb issue. Perhaps send copy of article to members?
• More SWs than nurses at this conference
• Good Workshops & Presentations:
• Susan Saunders: "It’s what you do, not what you call It"
• HIV longevity issues
• Greg Jensen - SW in End of Life care
• Organ donation, emotionally laden issues, pain management, compassionate care
• SW and UR: a necessary function SWs must handle
• Learn physiology, medication management, lab values. Imperative knowledge needed to work in a medical setting SW must be involved in CQI
• Service and hospitality issues: Disney speaker
• L. Greg Cunningham – "Collaboration vs. silos of care"; An excellent presentation on collaborative practice.
• Internet Academy online discharge planning, resource sharing. Strong support for use of Email information sharing & long distance discharge planning
• Sara Parrin - BBA: the relationship between hosp and nursing homes
• Salaries: difference between RN and SW in this role. If you can match job descriptions they must be paid the same. Be aware of what market-rating tool HR is using--salary discrepancies may be a product of this tool.
• ER case management: Frequent flyers, San Francisco pilot; ER staffing is complicated
• Next SSWLHC conference: San Antonio, Reg. fee will be approx $350.00 for members, April 25-29, 2001
• The unused stipend for the Orlando SSWLHC conference will be used to cover speaker fees for our September Chapter meeting. Efforts are being made to bring Greg Jensen and one of his staff to present their workshop on End-of-Life Care Issues. This workshop was presented at the recent Orlando conference. Program will be free for members and a reg. fee will be charged for non-members. This was approved by members present.

Next Meeting Dates, Quality Inn Madison:

Friday, September 15

Friday, December 1

Submitted by,

Paula J. Cook

Chapter Secretary