Feb. 13, 2010
So the day finally arrived to start at the clinic. Turns out the clinic is closed to patients on Fridays, so these next couple weeks will be dedicated to the organization and maintence of the clinic. The clinic just recently hired a new staff manager. She's a very nice lady with many goals for the clinic and is determined to make it her own - that gives us plenty of work to start off with.
We started yesterday with the storage files. There were hundreds of old Case Management Patient Charts that had been sent over from the Catherdral location. These charts needed to be alphabetically arranged and reboxed in order to send off to long term storage. That gave us quite a task. I didn't realize how rusty my alphabetical skills were until we started the process. Sorting through these boxes of dizorganized charts was a little hectic, but fortnately there were three of us working that day. Once a system was discussed between the three of us, things kicked off and wey started the organizing process. We had charts dated back from 2002 and had names from A-Z. You wouldn't think that organizing and boxing up these charts would make a difference, but after two long hours of looking at letters and charts we had finally completed the task. 7 boxes total full of charts! Mission Accomplished! You wouldn't believe the difference 7 new cleanly organized boxes made in a small storage closet in comparison to the scattered, ripped boxes thrown into the closet before hand.
It was a great feeling once we had completed the task. Knowing that the simple task of organizing the charts that was put off for months was finally completed in a matter of hours. The clinic is not only is able to send those boxes off, but they now have more storage space for new charts and donations that continue to arrive.
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
-Henry Ford
Until next time,
-Cristina.
