October 05, 2021

This week, October 3-9, we celebrate four national recognition weeks recognizing: Healthcare Supply Chain, Healthcare Food Services, Midwifery and Physician Assistants. We want to acknowledge the many talents and hard work of each of these teams over the last year, as each plays a vital role in The TriHealth Way of Delivering Care and our commitment to Getting Healthcare Right.

National Health Care Supply Chain Week is an opportunity to recognize the importance of our healthcare supply chain team members and honor them for their exceptional contributions to patient care and the innovative ways in which they support us and our community. At TriHealth, our Supply Chain team is made up of our Logistics, Purchasing, Value Analysis, and Patient Transport team members. Through every challenge the healthcare supply chain has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen incredible collaboration and maximizing scarce resources through a formation of strategic alliances – the true embodiment of advancing healthcare through supply chain excellence.

Our TriHealth Food and Nutrition Services (FANS) team is responsible for ensuring our patients have healthy, nutritious meals to aid in healing and wellness. Most of their work is done behind the scenes to bring food to patients, guests and team members every day. They make certain each patient gets the right meal to fit their diets and produce food in a timely manner for patients and guests. FANS team members help just about everyone in our hospitals daily. To give an idea of the scope of their work, in the last 12 months the FANs team at Good Samaritan hospital alone served 314,336 meal trays. They provide a service to all team members, enabling us to recharge so we can get back to the sacred work of caring for our patients

Midwives work in TriHealth Women’s Services practice locations and through TriHealth Nurse Midwives, which is a dedicated midwifery practice. Midwives are known primarily for their pregnancy and childbirth expertise and a personalized approach to women’s care; they also provide a range of other women’s health services. Licensed midwives provide limited primary care and work with women throughout their childbearing years and past menopause, including routine gynecologic checkups. For moms-to-be who may want a more natural approach to childbirth, a continuous presence during the labor period and intermittent monitoring, midwives are often the solution. Midwives encourage women to develop their individual birth plan, which could be a birth with only non-medical pain management techniques including water therapy or a plan that includes pain medication including epidural or spinal block. For more information about midwifery at TriHealth, click here.

National Physician Assistant Week is celebrated each year October 6-12. Our physician assistant (PA) team members provide the clinical expertise to deliver the safest, most reliable care possible to all our patients. PAs are medical professionals who diagnose illness, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medications and can serve as a patient’s principal healthcare provider. PAs are versatile and are committed to team practice with physicians and other healthcare providers.

Our supply chain team members, FANS team members, midwives and PAs are an integral part of our TriHealth team, and now more than ever, their contributions could not be more critical in our mission to get healthcare right for our community! Each of these teams helps us provide truly exceptional care and we are grateful for all that they do in helping us SERVE our community.