I want to welcome everyone to our May 21, 2024 City Council work session.

Mr.

Solas, I see a lot of our friends from our favorite hospital here tonight.

So I'll assume that's our topic.

Yes, sir, it is.

And on behalf of the city manager, I'd like to introduce Mr.

Reese Jackson, President, CEO of Chesapeake Regional Healthcare to introduce his team and members of the uh hospital authority.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you.

Uh thank you, Mayor West, and all members of council.

Um, it's um been a number of years since we presented to the work session.

Actually, it was going back to 2018 prior to the pandemic.

So I want to introduce the authority board members that are here.

So I see uh David Paradise, our board chair, Angela Farabee, our past board chair, Christy Wooten, Sandra Baines, Lionel Spruel, we have uh John Maxwell and Doug Davis here tonight.

So um, those are the board members here, quite a few.

And as we go through the presentation, uh, each um executive will introduce themselves.

Um, maybe I'll take the honor of introducing the first one because she's the newest member of our team, uh, Dr.

Jen Lenkewitz.

Hello, good evening.

Thanks for having us.

I'm happy to be serving as the Chief Medical Officer at Chesapeake, where we do provide consistently high quality care, and we are among the nation's top ten percent of safe hospitals.

Well, what uh makes a hospital safe, it's the ability to treat disease, illness, injury, but also prevent harm, and partner with outside uh physicians, post-acute care facilities, and the community to preserve health in our patients.

So the next slide focuses on our efforts to reduce hospital-acquired infections.

And even though our patients require central lines to administer treatments and fluids, and indwelling catheters to measure their output, we're able to focus on preventing harm and prevent infections.

Here you see some exceedingly low rates of infection when compared with hospitals across the nation.

Next slide.

So this is a six-hour bundle of care.

And if you see the purple line is the expected uh benchmark, and here you see that Chesapeake Regional is able to go well beyond that to care for patients with such serious infections.

On the next slide, we talk about readmissions, and this is the partnership with primary care physicians, community organizations, and postage care to preserve the health of the patients who just achieved a better state of health after being in our hospital.

We have an expected rate of readmission for people who are very sick, and there you see the CMS benchmark in the lighter blue color, but Chesapeake Regional is able to able to do better than that with lower readmission rates than expected.

But Chesapeake Regional is able to be able to do better than that with lower readmission rates than expected.

So thank you.

Good evening.

I'm honored to be here.

My name is Donna Runyon, and I'm the Chief Human Resources Officer at Chesapeake Regional Health Care.

I've worked in health care for 11 years, although I've held HR leadership roles in other industries prior to that.

I've been at Chesapeake Regional now for two years.

This evening I just wanted to share a snapshot of our workforce with you.

As colleagues, whether we deliver patient care or provide support to those who do, each one of us is considered a caregiver.

There's roughly 2500 of us, and that includes our employed physicians and advanced practice providers.

If we turn to the charts on the slide, you will see in the top left corner that 70% of our workforce is evenly split between the Gen X and Millennial generations.

The gray bar is our organization, while the tier teal bar is the city of Chesapeake.

Forty-three percent of us live in the city of Chesapeake.

And while staffing remains a challenge across the healthcare industry, we're pleased to share our turnover performance, which has remained below national average hospital turnover since the end of the calendar year 2021.

We attribute this as much to our inclusive culture and the focus on excellence as to our investments in competitive compensation and affordable health care coverage over the past two years.

I know I speak for my colleagues in saying we're proud of our achievements and grateful for the contributions each and every caregiver makes at Chesapeake Regional.

Good afternoon.

Thank you for having us here today.

My name is Jeff Kingry.

I'm the chief physician relations officer at Chesapeake Regional Health Care, and really my primary role is to serve as the vice president over our employed medical group.

So I just want to go over just give you some stats regarding our medical group.

Currently we have 117 providers employed by Chesapeake Regional Healthcare.

We are a multi-specialty group that you know we're dedicated to Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.

The majority of our physicians and APPs only hold privileges at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.

The ones that do not are our friends at the Naval Portsmouth Hospital that come in and do like FLECSI and shifts like that.

So if you look at some of our stats over the last year and our primary care clinics and specialty clinics, we've recorded over 140,000 visits.

Our surgeons were responsible for over 6,500 surgical procedures representing 40% of all surgeries done at Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.

If you look at the different specialties that we have under the group, we have breast care, so we have three surgeons and one APP.

The surgeons actually have uh served clinics in five different locations.

We have a full service cardiology group of general cardiology, electrophysiology, interventional cardiology, and heart failure.