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2021: A YEAR IN REVIEW

Pandemic response

• Deployed staff to support Unified

Command’s efforts to vaccinate the county’s healthcare workers . • Deployed staff to support the Unified

Command Equity Impact Advisors plan designed to address vaccine accessibility for people experiencing barriers to transportation, limited access to internet and social supports, or no connection to a health system . • Partnered with Lawrence Douglas County

Health Department to distribute vaccinations at the Douglas County Fairgrounds . • Supported vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds and partnered with Lawrence-Douglas County

Public Health to streamline communication and scheduling information .

Patient First

• Invited The University of Kansas Health

System (UKHS) to discuss a potential clinical relationship . • Celebrated the one-year anniversary of

LMH West Campus, a 25-year strategic investment in our charitable care mission and our community’s health . • Created a new screening tool for social determinants of health given to OB/GYN patients during their appointments . The tool asks questions in 12 categories which range from housing to childcare and finances . • Achieved milestones in orthopedics: —Earned Advanced Total Hip and Knee

Replacement Certification . —Granted candidacy for Sports Physical

Therapy Residency . —Announced a sports medicine partnership with Bishop Seabury for the 2021-22 school year . • Achieved milestones in Mother/Baby care: —Received designation as a Blue Distinction

Center + Maternity Care . —Earned the prestigious international

Baby-Friendly designation . —Received High 5 for Mom & Baby

Premier recognition . • Acquired Free State Family Medicine, ensuring expanded primary care support in our community .

• Welcomed new physicians and advanced practice providers in family practice, interventional cardiology, hospital medicine,

Palliative Medicine, LOGS and other areas . • To ensure high equity of care levels for all patients, the ID&E Health Equity

Advancement Team, Credentials Committee, and the Medical Executive Committee recommended that effective January 1, 2022, clinicians with LMH Health will be required to complete continuing medical education (CME) pertaining to the social and racial influences of healthcare .

Provider and advanced practitioner engagement

LMH Health provides $30 million in charitable care each year.

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Clinical integration and excellence

• Achieved a Grade A from Leapfrog . • Relocated the physical therapy team to the 6th and Maine site, doubling the amount of space and allowing for enhanced treatment of patients .

Cultural beliefs

• Welcomed back Dr . Pasha for six additional workshop sessions on Social Determinants of Health and Implicit Bias that were offered to all employees . • Developed and delivered 12 Conversation

Classes on race, diversity and inclusion for associates on 12 unique topics . Several classes welcomed different speakers and the opportunity for meaningful conversations among staff . • Welcomed local high school juniors and seniors to take a peek behind the scenes, participate in executive meetings and shadow healthcare physicians and advanced practice providers for the third summer in a row through the LMH Health Summer

Leadership Academy .

Workforce support and excellence

• Announced health equity strategy . • Recognized LMH Health clinician Jennifer

Schrimsher, MD, who was named one of

Ingram’s 50 Kansans You Should Know . • Recognized LMH Health clinician Richard

Wendt, MD, who was named one of the 2021 Ingram’s Top Doctors .

Technology, learning and innovation

• Named 2021 Most Wired . • Completed the first outpatient partial joint replacement using MAKO robotic arm . • Continued delivery of TeleHealth, making it available for all physicians and advanced practice providers and increasing average monthly use .

Financial stewardship

• Successfully negotiated an agreement between LMH Health and Blue Cross and

Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS) . • Launched a major fundraising initiative to support Cancer Center expansion .

Community leadership

• Provided ongoing leadership and program development for the Douglas County Crisis

Center, working with community partners to evaluate local behavioral health crisis response system needs and develop the service lines and facility design to suit . • Recognized LMH Health President & CEO

Russ Johnson, who was named one of

Ingram’s 250 most-influential business executives and leaders throughout the

Greater Kansas City region . • Coordinated and executed a year-long centennial celebration for LMH Health . • Partnered with the Community Children’s

Center (CCC) through a matching grant from the LMH Health Foundation to support development for an early childhood community center in USD 497’s Kennedy building in Lawrence . Improving access to high quality education, especially for low income communities, is an investment in upstream solutions to address social determinants of health . • Continued to address food insecurity through the Van Go mini pantry outside the

Emergency Department and partnering with

Just Food to provide mobile food pantry visits at both the West and Maine campuses . • Expanded Community Outreach and

Engagement classes to Spanishspeaking individuals .

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