Notice of Physician's Note for any call out during the holidays

Please read the notice below.  This will be strictly enforced for the entire holiday season.  We have many staff already in or teetering on disciplinary action for attendance.  Please note that unless you are in some sort of accident (God forbid) and unable to return to Charleston, I will be checking to see that the excuse is from a local physician and is on or immediately before the date of the call out.  Thus, you cannot call out one day and not go see an MD until the next day and have them back date the excuse.  With the holidays during the middle of the week this year, there might be a tendency for people to call out on shifts surrounding the holiday to have a longer stretch off.  Please know that calling out on any shift during the weeks noted below will be subject to disciplinary action without a valid physician's excuse.  Also remember that if you get a holiday, it will most likely be on call and you will have to be able to come in to work within one hour of being called.

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TO:                 MUHA Clinical Management

SUBJ:             Staff Absences Requiring a Written Physician’s Excuse for 2013 Holidays

and Hospital Supervisor Coverage

FROM:          MUHA Clinical Administrators

DATE:                        October 17, 2013

Please note that a physician’s excuse is required for any unscheduled staff member absence during the following periods of time:

                                                                       

Thanksgiving           7 PM Wednesday, Nov. 27 until 7 AM, Monday, Dec. 2

           

Christmas                 7 PM Thursday, Dec. 19 until 7AM, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014

Hospital Supervisor Coverage:

Thanksgiving           Starts 3 PM Wednesday Nov. 27 until 8 AM Friday Nov. 29

Christmas                 Starts 3 PM Tuesday Dec. 24 until 8 AM Thursday Dec. 26

           

New Year’s               Starts 3 PM Tuesday Dec. 31 until 8 AM Thursday Jan. 2, 2014

Pat Cawley, MD, Executive Director

Matt Wain, Chief Operating Officer

Marilyn Schaffner, PhD, Administrator, Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Officer

Jim Brook, Administrator, Oncology Service Line

June Darby, Administrator, Neuroscience Services

Sharon De Grace, Administrator, Surgery and Medicine Acute Critical Care Service Line

Darcy Kalles, Administrator, Heart & Vascular Center Service Line

Vicki Marsi, Administrator, Women’s Care Service Line

John Sanders, Administrator, Children’s Service Line

Brian Sloan, Administrator, Digestive Disease Service Line

Steve Rublee, Administrator, Mental Health Service Line

Steve Rublee, Interim Administrator, Ambulatory Care

Nancy Tassin, Administrator, Musculoskeletal Service

Nancy Tassin, Interim Administrator, Transplant Service Line