✨Workforce Weekly 🤲 March.1.2023

Don’t Miss our Annual Report for 2022

The LA Health Services Annual Report for 2022 is now available for viewing and is accompanied, by an “Accomplishments and Highlights” video.

Please take time to review the key highlights and accomplishments from 2022, remembering that you are a key element to the great work achieved in our Department of Health Services.  

The Annual Report is available via this link, 2022 Annual Report - Health Services Los Angeles County (lacounty.gov)   It is an electronic booklet and the video can be found on the back page.

Congratulations everyone!

Schwartz Rounds for Compassionate Healthcare

Updated Deadline: Mandatory Payroll Audit due
March 31

MANDATORY FY 22-23 PAYROLL PAYOFF AUDIT

UPDATED DEADLINE IS 3/31/2023

Takes less than 1 minute to complete. Click here now.

To comply with County Fiscal Manual, Section 3.1.12, Warrant Distribution Controls, a Payroll Payoff audit must be conducted to ensure that all employees receiving pay or benefits are bona fide. To accomplish this, employees of the Department of Health Services are required to complete the electronic Payroll Payment Reconciliation Payoff Form.  Please click on the link to access the form. The form has only seven simple questions and it will take few seconds to complete (see the screenshot below).

REMINDER: Please ensure you are entering your employee number correctly and include any leading zeroes, it must be six digits.

Required Action: 

• All DHS employees receiving pay or benefits from LA County are required to complete the electronic form and must type their name under Electronic Signature for their submissions to be valid. The form must be completed and submitted no later than 3/31/2023. 

Here is the link to the 2023 Payroll Payment Reconciliation Payoff Audit form: https://forms.office.com/g/SWnFR86NN1

This requires your timely and accurate response. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Should you have questions, or need additional assistance in submission or approval, please email your department’s coordinator listed below:

Minute for Medicine – Adopting High Reliability Mindset

Minute For Medicine focuses on creating high reliability organizations in the healthcare industry, inspired by successful industries like aviation and nuclear power. The Joint Commission outlines three key steps for healthcare organizations to adopt high reliability: strong leadership commitment, a safety culture, and process improvement tools. The high reliability section of Minute for Medicine will delve into these principles for better patient care and protection.

Women’s History Month – Los Angeles’ Very Own Distinguished Women in Medicine

We are highlighting some of the prominent Los Angeles Women in Medicine in honor of Women’s History Month.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Follansbee (1839-1917), is the first woman physician in Los Angeles, according to the American Medical Association.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Follansbee, image courtesy of the Los Angeles Almanac and  A History of the Medical Profession of Southern California (1910)

Follansbee started medical school at the University of California in San Francisco but transferred to University of Michigan Medical School because it was more accepting of female students. She earned her medical license in 1877, returned to San Francisco, and worked at the woman-founded Children's Hospital of San Francisco.

Female physicians were not accepted by male peers at this time but were tolerated only if they limited their treatment to women and children.

Follansbee moved to Los Angeles in 1883, for health reasons, and joined the inaugural faculty, as a professor of pediatrics, at USC’s new medical school in 1885. She was the first female faculty member at a medical school in California. Among her pioneering efforts was to arrange for female USC medical graduates to intern at Children's Hospital in San Francisco because it was the only West Coast hospital that accepted female interns and residents.

A Message from the Workforce Well-Being Team

Thank you to everyone across LA Health Services for contributing to the amazing accomplishments in 2022, despite the challenges, the uncertainty, and in some cases, chaos. Since many of you are often running against the clock and moving from task-to-task, there often isn't much time to reflect upon how much you have accomplished. No matter what your role is, "big" or "small", each and every action, each and every task, each and every smile has a domino or ripple effect that we often do not see.

The Highlights and Accomplishments from the 2022 Annual Report:

• Dr. Ghaly received the Chair Leadership Award!

• Keisha Belmaster, from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, received the Productivity Managers' Network Award!
  
  
• Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center was recognized as one of the Nation's Best Rehabilitation Hospitals! 
  
  
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Centerwas recognized as having one of the top Kidney Transplant Programs in the nation! 
  
  
• LAC+USCMedical Center for an extraordinarily successful and expanded Safer at Home Program! 
  
  
• Olive View-UCLA Medical Center received the Bronze Eagle Award and thanks for their U.S. Border Humanitarian Efforts!
  
  
• Ambulatory Care Network for expansion care services in Eastern and Southern LA County! 
  
  
• Congratulations to our teams who are leading and running the Life-Saving Mobile Clinics!
  
  
• Correctional Health Services for their incredibly successful and transformative Forensic Inpatient Stepdown Program! 
  
  
• Housing for Health for your efforts in opening the Safe Landings Campus and for assisting our most vulnerable populations through many different innovative and comprehensive programs! 

There are so many more to thank and congratulate. Watch the videos, and if you have a moment, glance at the beautiful report.

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