VTH Board Minutes 7/26/2018
Attendees: VTH Board
3:30 Agenda:
Minutes Approval
Consent Agenda
Formulary Request
Informational
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- Seminar series
- Equine table
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- Question on how to disburse minutes to ALL VTH, send short synopsis via email, send the minutes, or create a box or link for ease of access. Consensus feel best for COS to send a summary email out to VTH.
- Seminar series to start every Friday from 9-10 in SAC 80.
- Equine Surgical table here and working properly.
Policy
Agenda:
- Relinquish
- Stray
- Research
- Job Volunteer/Shadowing
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- Reviewed policy on terminating client relationship
- Skipping Relinquishing
- Stray Animals to go to CC Animal Control, SAIM to contact Animal Control. Per policy we do not adopt, do not foster through VTH, but only through Animal Control. Exception to rule: when found in different county Animal Control will not take animal, therefore, let them foster (take home).
JW to send out clarification email. - Research-Every animals will be registered. In order to figure out how best for the VTH to proceed on this topic a committee has been appointed: Dr. Lowe, Dr. Gutierrez, Dr. Williams and Dr. Fries with the insight of Dr. Fan on the subject. They will look in to what legally can and can’t be done (Federal, States and Institutional Laws) and report back in 2 months.
- Skipping Job Shadowing
Working Committee Update
Agenda:
- Central Laundry
- Inventory Management
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- Central Laundry options are to send out to be laundered or pay people to clean items here
- Inventory Management – Entails a cart system and whole process under review, with concerns over String soft implementation
Facilities Updates
Agenda:
- SAC 41
- Rust mitigation
- Pharmacy
- I/R office
- Lin Acc
- ER
- South Clinic
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- SAC 41 is staff breakroom, open to house officers, just no students
- Rust Mitigation-August painting over rust, September external stall bits arriving, central area not finalized per Dr. Lowe
- Intern/Resident Office is ready to go in SAC 281 this is the space that was displace by LinACC
- LinAcc – fence is up around project sight, please advise people to stay off grass. Basement door in that area is emergency egress only.
- ER-Hallway back open, space not complete hoping for August 3rd, ER window clings to begin Friday the 3rd
- South Clinic – Primary, Zoo, Shelter Med, Schematic plan meeting on August 2nd
Operations
Agenda:
- Records (timeliness)
- Discretionary QIC
- Employee Discount
- Adjustment Enforcement
- StringSoft
- Capital
- FARMS trucks lease
- Price Master/Pricing
- Shelter Medicine
- Pharmacy Review - survey
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- RDVM not getting records in a timely fashion. Will Stringsoft be able to do this? Will RDVM have a portal to access data? Discharge reports are not happening for 7 days. Are there ways to prompt reports in Stringsoft? Some info is better than no info. Finalized reports should not take longer than 48 hours.
- List of Discretionary Adjustments requested/approved in FY18 was distributed.
- Farms truck to not be leased. It was approved and not communicated. Dually failed inspection.
- Email went out about price master update
- Dr. Weedon retired from Shelter med
- Midwest Equine –guidance from VTH staff, code/billing issues
College Report
Agenda:
- Midwest Equine
- Imaging Tech Salaries
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- Midwest Equine –guidance from VTH staff, code/billing issues
- Imaging techs will align with Union techs on August 16th
Personnel
Agenda:
- VTH Business Office/Extra Help
- Faculty/Staff hiring
- Pharmacy Staffing
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- New pharmacy technician
- New Pharmacist has started, serving as pharmacy tech until licensing issues squared away