News / August 03, 2020
With full hearts we say good-bye and thank you to Jeyn Monkman, MA, BSN, NE-BC who will be retiring from her team director position at ICSI after eight years with our organization. During this time Jeyn has successfully led multiple projects, most recently driving a collaborative effort to significantly advance integrated behavioral health (IBH) in primary care throughout Minnesota. Her experience and expertise across the healthcare continuum in nursing leadership and quality improvement was put to good use at ICSI, as she helped many clinics and organizations navigate and embed important clinical changes including tobacco cessation, chronic condition management, and more.
Jeyn is also a motivational interviewing trainer. Her initial responsibilities at ICSI involved practice coaching for partners across the nation in COMPASS, a national dissemination and implementation initiative focused on improving the care of people with depression, diabetes, and/or cardiovascular disease.
“ICSI and the work we do has been such an important part of my life,” says Jeyn. “Now I have chosen to explore a new opportunity and adventure. I look forward to spending more time with my family and pursuing my love of travel.”
“It’s impossible to quantify the positive impact Jeyn has had on our organization during her time with ICSI,”
News / July 28, 2020
Earlier this month Sanford Health Chief Medical Officer Allison Suttle, MD, recently wrote an insightful article for NEJM Catalyst on the impact of COVID-19 in South Dakota. While hospitals in that state have not come close to filling the capacity prepared for the pandemic, the region, like many other rural areas across the country, is anticipating different kinds of surges as preventative health visits and vaccination rates plummet, unemployment rises, and many residents lose their healthcare.
News / July 23, 2020
As we move toward resuming activities during the time of COVID-19, naturally the question arises as to whether or not our children should be back in school this fall. In a nutshell we need to determine – is school safe?It’s not a question that has a definitive answer. Like so many topics surrounding the pandemic, we need to consider many different factors and perhaps rephrase the question in several different ways.
COVID-19 has created extraordinary challenges for medical professionals and institutions who care for those ill with the novel coronavirus. The sheer magnitude of the experience of treating COVID-19 patients and the risks that come with such work, alongside threats to global economies, social stabilities and entire ways of life, can cause significant trauma to health care workers.
ICSI announced that the first edition of a new Mental Health Playbook is now available. The Playbook was created to provide planning and implementation strategies to support the current and long-term mental and emotional wellbeing of the healthcare workforce.
News / June 12, 2020
The senseless loss of Mr. Floyd’s life has once again pointed out the deadliness of systemic racism, specifically as it shows up in our police systems. As we know, however, racism exists in many different levels within many different systems. As part of the healthcare system, our responsibility right now is to take a good hard look at ourselves.
News / May 14, 2020
By Dr. Claire Neely, ICSI President & CEO
Lately I’ve been part of several conversations centered on “flattening the curve” of COVID-19 and what that means for all of us. The good news is that under the leadership of our local government and thanks to the extraordinary efforts of Minnesotans across the state, we have flattened it. We now have the hospital beds, ventilators and other equipment we need to care for the people who most certainly will continue to become seriously ill from COVID-19.
News / May 06, 2020
By Sarah Horst, ICSI Team Director
For the last six months I have been conducting a workshop entitled Lead Courageous Quality Improvement with Improv and Collaboration for audiences around the country. My job at ICSI is to do “capacity building” for healthcare leaders who know what they want to do technically, but are often stuck in the activities of how to get it done. The challenge with the how is often related to psychology – how people think and feel about the change.
Within the healthcare industry there seems to be a lack of formal training to address the mindset needed for change. To address that need our team at ICSI developed the Quality Improv(e) Framework.
News / April 23, 2020
By Dr. Claire Neely, ICSI President & CEO
In the past few years, our healthcare industry has done a better job of addressing issues around mental health for our healthcare professionals with new programs to help promote the wellbeing and emotional resiliency. Some medical schools are trying to reduce the impacts of physician burnout with training that teaches a more balanced, therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient, as opposed to the more traditional, hierarchical experience most of us were shown.
News / April 02, 2020
We are excited to share the first iteration of our website dedicated to mental health support for the healthcare workforce. The new site was created based on the collective vision of Minnesota's healthcare providers, plans and partners.
