Topic

Author

Recipients

Frequency

Methodology

State-of-the-Hospital

CEO

All staff and physicians

Annually

Video

New Hospital Addition

COO

All staff and physicians

Monthly

Email Newsletter

Daily Dashboard

CEO

All staff and physicians

Daily

Twitter

Acquisition

CEO

Multiple internal constituents

Physicians

Mid-level managers

All Staff

Business Partners

Web Meeting, MD Q&A document

Meet with Sr. Manager, mgmt Q&A doc

eMail, all-staff Q&A doc

eMail, Partner Q&A co

Moving the lab to a new location

Director of Ancillary Services

Lab Staff

All others

6 months before move

Two weeks before move

Planning Meeting

Daily Move update, eMail

Major New Nursing Policy

VP-Nursing

All nursing staff

Before new major policy is implemented

Nursing Directors – meeting and new policy document

Staff Nurses – Meet with Nursing Directors and new policy document

New ideas

All staff

Leadership

Daily

New Idea Chat room on intranet (by category);