December 11, 2018
UNC Health Care Plans to Increase Living Wage for Triangle Employees
Minimum wage will rise to $15 per hour in July 2019 to recruit and retain key workforce.
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November 20, 2018
News from HR
View updates from HR this week, including details on the PTO Sell Back Period open through Dec. 1, info on Fidelity resources, a Fidelity info session Nov. 27 in Chapel Hill, a Fidelity info session Dec. 3 in Hillsborough, multiple TIAA webinar sessions in early December, and a TIAA on-site info session on Dec. 11 in Chapel Hill.
August 30, 2018
Outpatient Services & ISD Registration/Scheduling Training WebEx
The monthly Outpatient Services and ISD Registration/Scheduling WebEx will occur at noon on Thursday, Sept. 6. This session will review the Patient Missing Registration Workqueue, Out of Network insurances, and HAR creation.
June 8, 2018
New UNC Health Care brand campaign begins in Triangle starting June 8
We are excited to share a preview of a new UNC Health Care brand campaign that will launch in the Triangle on June 8 and across the state this fall.
June 6, 2018
Introducing the integrated Well-Being Program
We are excited to announce a partnership between UNC Physicians, the UNC School of Medicine, and UNC Health Care to create a system-wide integrated Well-Being Program. This program, spanning across UNC Health Care’s owned hospitals, Physician Network, and the School of Medicine, will build on the various wellness programs already in place and synergize efforts to focus on the primary drivers of burnout.
May 17, 2018
Schiller named Chief Communications and Marketing Officer for UNC Health Care
On Wednesday, May 16, Dr. Bill Roper announced that Lisa Schiller was appointed Chief Communications and Marketing Officer (CCMO) for the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health Care, effective immediately.
August 17, 2017
Providers: Please review the Code Status for all inpatients
If your patient’s Code Status in the patient header is listed as “Prior," please place a new code status order so that an active code order is on the patient’s current encounter. Following Go-Live #6, there is a new code status indicator of “Prior,” which represents that the patient had a previous code order on file that is no longer active for the current encounter.
August 10, 2017
Ambulatory Providers, Staff: Ensure patients checked-in and ‘Reason for Visit’ selected
Pre-charting, which allows ambulatory providers to get a head start on documentation for future visits, is one of the new features of the upgraded Epic@UNC. Providers can ‘pre-chart’ and then, if the patient ‘no-shows’ an appointment, the data is deleted within 30 days.
July 13, 2017
UNC Health Care implementing ‘No Show and Late Cancellation’ policy
UNC Health Care is implementing a system-wide ‘No Show and Late Cancellation’ policy in its outpatient clinics and services. Beginning Aug. 15, if a patient misses his/her appointment and does not notify the outpatient clinic/service, the patient will receive a ‘no-show’ letter to remind them of our policy and provide information about cancelling and rescheduling appointments.
July 12, 2017
UNC Health Care honored as ‘Most Wired Advanced’
UNC Health Care is one of only 27 systems in the United States to be recognized as a 'Most Wired Advanced’ health system by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for its use of information technology to improve patient care and clinical integration.
July 10, 2017
Ambulatory Providers and Support Staff: Updates to method of entering external results into Health Maintenance
Effective July 22 with Go-Live #6, the Quick Abstraction option (under Quick Navigators) and the HM Results Console (in an Abstract Encounter) are being removed from Epic@UNC in order to promote accurate clinical documentation of Health Maintenance procedures and labs done outside of the UNC Health Care System.
June 21, 2017
Patients to begin receiving text message appointment reminders on June 27
On June 27, patients at UNC Health Care locations using Epic@UNC who list a cell phone number as their preferred number will begin receiving appointment reminders via text message. Currently, patients receive an automated phone call to their primary number (landline or mobile) two days prior to a scheduled appointment.