Holiday Thanks from Maria's List

Each year, the celebrated “12 Days of Christmas” starts on Christmas Day, December 25 and extends to January 6^th, known as the liturgical Feast of the Epiphany.  In France, this second feast in the Christmas season is known a “le Petit Noel,” or Little Christmas, in other European countries it is the Feast of the Three Kings.  Here, at Maria’s List, we would love to take this opportunity to reflect on and acknowledge all the people and hard work that have contributed to Maria’s List, and ensured its success as a project to improve communication between Mather Hospital and its physicians, and between physicians and each other.

People, Quality & Safety, Service Excellence, Innovation and Growth

In the next twelve days we will be thanking many of the people involved in the Maria’s List project, review some of the quality-informed ideas and processes that have been implemented and learned during this project, demonstrate the service-oriented goals of the project while acknowledging the tremendous administrative engagement and support at Mather, and discuss the plan for sustainability that, by dovetailing with implementation of Sunrise Clinical Manager, will further elevate Mather’s core value of innovation and growth.

With Special Thanks to You

In this season of gratitude, reflection, and celebration, I would first like to thank all the readers of Maria’s List.  Whether you clicked on once, or once-in-a-while, daily, or only when reminded, your participation was the driving force of this project.  Comments, whether signed, or left anonymously, filling out a survey, or typing out a diatribe, were all genuinely appreciated, and valuable, especially in regards to sustainability of this project.  Running into you at the hospital and hearing how you had heard about or started reading and participating in Maria’s List was some of the most unexpected and heartening feedback.

Merry Christmas, reader, and all best wishes for 2011.  Thank you for all you do, driving the quality, service, outcomes, and future of patients and healthcare in our region.  And in the midst of all this, thank you for making the List!