Housestaff Involvement, Education, & Community Outreach Fund Sample Clauses

Housestaff Involvement, Education, & Community Outreach Fund. A. The parties recognize that they have shared interests in ensuring effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of patient care and improving clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. CIR and the PHT recognize that it is in the interest of all parties to increase public awareness about the high level of care provided at the PHT through community outreach programs. B. In addition, it is our common goal to make the PHT a pre- eminent deliverer of health care in the United States. It is further our goal to demonstrate by any measure that labor-management collaboration produces superior health care outcomes, leading performance, and a superior workplace for PHT employees. In this spirit and with this intent, the PHT and the Union agree to establish a Partnership in pursuit of our common goals to: • Improve quality health care for the communities we serve; • Assist the PHT in achieving and maintaining leading performance; • Make the PHT a better place to work; • Provide PHT employees with the maximum possible employment and income security within the PHT; • Involve employees and their Union in operational, clinical, and business decisions; • Improve quality/patient safety & patient experience C. The parties also recognize the important role that residents play in many of the processes that contribute to these shared interests. Therefore, the PHT shall provide $175,000.00 annually to CIR to work on ways to achieve these goals in concert with the PHT. CIR and the PHT will collaborate on the Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives as a part of the Partnership. D. The PHT shall also make every reasonable effort to provide all CIR requests for data, which are necessary to achieve the aforementioned goals, within 72 business hours of the request, at no charge. E. The parties expressly agree that an accurate on-going accounting of the One Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand ($175,000.00) dollars annual Housestaff Involvement, Education, & Community Outreach Fund expenditures will be provided in detail on a quarterly basis. In that regard, the CIR will send to the PHT a quarterly accounting of all monies expended and the current balance of the funds. The accounting will include all purchases and/or payments to/from individuals or organizations, with invoices submitted by such individuals or organizations related to the expenditures. In that regards, the accounting will be provided quarterly to the Housestaff Senior Partnership Committee. It is further agreed that if f...