Patient Enrollment / Recruitment Ideas

We had our marketing department make these for each of our groups so that the patients can see who their doc is and have all of the dates on one sheet.AOGC_Centering_Halfsheet_2017_1.pdf (205.68 KB)

This is what I have put together to get our staff excited about Centering and talking about Centering. The theme is Mind, Body and Spirit. There are a couple things that I added that aren't in these pics, but the bottom line whoever recruits (key word) a patient to Centering, puts the patient label with their name in a bucket. At our next staff meeting, in April then we will draw a name to see who wins. I will be doing a different one next month with a different theme that I already have in mind. A little competition between each other isn't going to hurt anyone. And anyone from front office to the nurses on the phone doing the NOB intakes to the provider to the MA who rooms the patient, if at the end of the visit the patient decides to enroll in Centering then that person puts their name in the drawing, they can put their name in as many times as possible. My coworkers think this is a great idea and are pretty excited to do this. I will announce a winner in April and take a pic with them and the basket. 

amydonaldson63 I love the basket! (especially the Tazo tea!) How many of the staff are participating thus far? And is there anything else that you do to boost staff morale?

Ishana I have typed out a sheet of paper and I have included all staff, I think its important to add all staff who is involved in the recruiting process of Centering, from the scheduler who answers the first call from the patient who is coming to our clinic for their care. To the RN's who do the new ob intakes, to the MA's who room the patient to the providers either a midwife or an OB/GYN. In my opinion its important to include everyone and to get everyone excited so there is more talk about it. We have been doing the raffle for a week now and still have 3 weeks to go and already have 7 ppl in the drawing. From providers to the scheduler. I am excluded and so is the Lead Midwife but we want others to talk about it and get the word out there because we know we already do that. Its pretty awesome. So there is about 25 - 30 staff members who are involved. Its pretty exciting to go from being the only one (out of the MA's) who talks to the patients about what Centering is and what it offers to even our MA's who don't do Centering and at times also work at a different clinic (once a wk our midwives and 1 MA travel to a different clinic to help out with access) but that MA has even recruited a patient and that patient called ME and wanted to make sure she was signed up because she heard about all the fun stuff that Centering does. That is exciting and I am glad we are doing this. To boost morale on my end and to get them excited in their Centering groups or upcoming Centering groups that are starting I get their opinion on maybe what kind of snacks would they like for their patients or if there is a different activity or ice breaker that they may want to do or what kind of different crafts would they like for the craft table (when patients make their name tag) I also give them props like at our staff meetings, if I hear or see that they go the extra step for our Centering patients then I make sure I show them recognition. If they get the recognition for going above what they may usually do then they will most likely do it again. Our Centering patients like that extra personal care. I also make sure I COMMUNICATE to them. Any pertinent information they need to know about any possible changes or something we are going to start doing differently like giving the patient evals at session 7 or 8 since some of our patients don't quite make it to session 9. Lol for obvious reasons. I don't tell them all the particulars about everything but things I feel they need to know I tell them. Sometimes too much information can overwhelm someone ya know. I hope this post helps you Ishana, -Amy 

This is another staff recruitment raffle I put together and the theme was "Thanks for Growing with Us" It had all kind of gardening stuff inside as well as a thank you card signed by myself and the lead midwife Karen McConnell CNM for recruiting so many people! I mean our group that starts June 17th 2017 already has 9 people that are recruited! I mean exciting things are happening at Kaiser Permanente in Bellevue Medical Center, I am loving it! each month I find myself competing with myself to recruit even more patients, its a pretty awesome feeling, Our October group has 13 and our November Group has 10 and we can still recruit for these groups!!!!! Its a great feeling!!!! I LOVE MY JOB!!! Oh yeah and the person who won this raffle was one of our newer midwives who actually was just trained April 10th at our in house training and she is the one who just started the November Group Monday May 8th ! I love it! She was soooooo excited! Great job Ali, you deserve the raffle, so glad you won it! XOXO