Big Fix Meeting Report

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The two community meetings I attended were the FLASH meeting at Houston Behavioral Healthcare Hospital on January 30th, 2018, and The Big Fix Meeting on February 20th, 2018. These two meetings provided me the opportunity to observe how two different organizations/agencies conduct their meetings and specifically the dynamics of how the members communicate, collaborate, interact, and present issues and topics. The Flash Meeting at Houston Behavioral Hospital Healthcare is held daily every morning from nine to ten. The meeting is made up of the hospitals CEO, CFO, Director of Clinical Services, Chief Nursing Officer, Director of Outpatient Services, Director of Business Development, Outpatient Coordinator, Patient Advocate, Intake Director, …show more content…

The CEO, Roy Hollis ran and lead the meeting, he used an open style of communication, actively listened, asked thoughtful questions of each department, and displayed a strong yet empathetic style of leadership. All the members in the meeting participated and gave the status updates of their departments the number of expected upcoming discharges for the day, new patient admissions, patients who would be attending the hospitals Intensive Outpatient Program, along with potential areas of business development through outreach to surrounding hospitals and doctors in the city. The meeting was run in an extremely professional, respectful, and empathetic manner. I found the meeting extremely fascinating and sitting in on it allowed me to have a complete perspective of how the hospital operates, and the functions and roles that each department plays within the …show more content…

Lauren did a tremendous job in facilitating, running, and managing the different egos and personalities in the room. Lauren successfully hit all the key phases of running a meeting, specifically member introductions, setting a clear agenda, keeping the discussion on track, summarizing key points, and being mindful of time. The main purpose of this initial meeting was to connect the spay/neuter providers with their assigned Baylor students, to outline the major components of the movement, to identify barriers to growing the spay/neuter project, to present potential solutions to this problem, and to agree upon the next steps that will be taken to advance this

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