Furloughs & Pay Cuts | Dr. Kim Boland

• Pay cuts range from 1% to 10% depending on salary of faculty or staff member.  Dually employed faculty members will only see the pay cut from their UofL portion.
• Really hard to furlough 34 staff members.
• $167,855 target to save.  Only the 1% reduction in pay group counted toward the target savings.
• Furloughs are anticipated to end on July 2. 
• All furloughs are temporary.
• Temp employees were mandatory to release; but they should be able to return in early July.
• During the furloughs, the Chair Office will have a few staff members who were effected; however you can reach out to any of the following for assistance:
• Ruby Keith can help with administrative functions
• Dianna Stover can help with Microsoft Teams, marketing, PR, media requests
• Andrei Trocan, Jared Neal and Joy Jeffries can help with finance and accounting, including travel needs
• Jen Morgan and Ashley Currie are available for faculty affairs needs
• Kimberly Whitt is available for staff HR needs
• Sarah McKinney and Jeremy Crump are available with divisional IT needs
• Each Division needs to submit a plan to cover a furloughed employee’s responsibilities. Please share with Kimberly Whitt/Ruby Keith.  If you have no administrative support, feel free to have academic items directed to someone in the Chair’s office for academic needs and to the Practice Manager for clinical needs.
• It is important for furloughed employees to not engage in any work-related tasks while out of the office. They can not check emails or answer work-related phone calls or texts.                                         

Media Requests | Dr. Kim Boland

Please make sure Dianna Stover is made aware of media requests related to clinical, academic, or research topics.  The department must submit reports including media relations, community engagement and government relations to the university.  Some of this data is used for accreditation purposes and other funding related reporting. Dianna will continue to coordinate with the UofL Office of Government Relations and School of Medicine PR team just as she did while we were affiliated with ULP, please wait for her response before speaking or presenting to a government related group.  You can copy her on email exchanges with the Norton PR team, she does not need a separate communication.  Please reach out to her with any questions or concerns.

 AAP Dues | Dr. Kim Boland

• For dually employed faculty - AAP dues are to be paid by providers and the receipts should be sent to Norton Practice Managers for reimbursement by Norton.  Please include your Kentucky Chapter dues, as there will not be a group Department of Pediatrics Kentucky Chapter payment made.
• Leased faculty - there are no changes to the way your dues are to be paid, your UBM/ administrative support staff will pay using a UofL ProCard. Please include your Kentucky Chapter dues, as there will not be a group Department of Pediatrics Kentucky Chapter payment made.

Clinical Operations | Dr. Jenn Evans

• Clinics should be back to fully open schedules to book with either telemed or in person visits.
• Telemed visits can be done in exam rooms to maintain social distancing between other staff in the clinic.
• If you cannot maintain social distancing in the clinic, please reach out to your Practice Manager for assistance.
• There are a lot of organizations reaching out to ask Norton about the ability to provide telehealth services.
  • The more telehealth we can do, the better but in person visits should be done when a provider feels that an exam is necessary.

 Medical Education | Dr. Sara Multerer

• Gradual, phased approach to re-entering Residents to clinical settings.  See slidesfor details.
  • Timelines for phases are to be determined per hospital, Novak Center, and other guidelines as announced by leaders and state/federal government.
  • AAMC Updates – Applications and interview seasons are likely to be delayed.  They are trying to standardize process for all communities.

Research | Dr. Jan Sullivan

• Norton/ECG/UofL meetings are still taking place and progressing well for the Research integration. Once the Definitive Agreement documents are finalized and signed off by both UofL and NHC boards, work groups will develop an implementation plan for specific processes.
• University of Louisville Faculty Research Advisory Committee is working with Dr. Kevin Gardner, EVPRI, to ramp up research activities. One limiting factor may be PPE. Information will be provided as it is available.