George Washington University Athletics
Capgemini Colonial of the Week: Women's Basketball Alum Lexi Martins
5/12/2020 2:47:00 PM | General, Women's Basketball
Women's basketball alum Lexi Martins is the program manager in Hospital Operations at the Cleveland Clinic. Within her office, she provides administrative oversight and support for facilitating consistency, standardization and systemness to ensure the clinical and operational success of the Clinic's 12 hospitals throughout Northeast Ohio.
Capgemini and GW Athletics are proud to honor Lexi and Colonials everywhere who continue to battle this pandemic on the front lines. This week, Lexi, who earned her Master's of Healthcare Administration from GW, provides some insight into what her role has been and how GW helped prepare her for these uncertain times.
"At the beginning of the COVID-19 response, I had the opportunity to help establish, stand-up and manage an Operations taskforce. This taskforce was led by our system's president, Dr. Sabanegh and Chief Nursing Officer, Kelly Hancock. The group included many members of the organization's Executivee Team, and was responsible for the day-to-day operations and surge plan development for Northeast Ohio. On a regular cadence, work streams would report out key updates, barriers and potential endorsements needed to support the task force. These work streams included: ICU, PPE and Reuse, Large Non-traditional Sites, Transportation, Data Model, Documentation, Testing, Communications, Home Health Monitoring, Pharmacy, Supply Chain and Workforce.
The Clinic's focus has now evolved from surge planning and operations, to operations and recovery. I have also had the opportunity to help stand-up and now manage a new task force that focuses on the organization's efforts for "living with COVID." This task force is also composed of a working group of Executive Team members and is responsible for overseeing reactivation of non-COVID care and clinical / non-clinical operations during the COVID / non-COVID environment.
Some of the accomplishments and decisions for which these task forces are responsible include:
- The planning of a non-traditional 1,000 bed hospital in our Health Education Campus (non-clinical medical school)
- The decision to distribute over 60,000 cloth masks per day to all patients and caregivers across each of our campuses.
- The surgical reactivation and testing strategies for non-essential procedures.
The response from the Cleveland Clinic in dealing with COVID-19 has been remarkable. The patient remains the first priority for every decision we make. In our health system, we have taken a team-of-teams approach to ensure we are continuing to deliver the highest quality of care to each of our patients.
I am so grateful for the fundamental experiences I had as a student-athlete at George Washington that prepared me to be a team member and excel within these types of situations. Coach Rizzotti, her staff and the entire Athletics Department at GW created a consistently positive environment for students to prosper during optimistic times. But more importantly, through our semesters and seasons, when teams or individuals faced adversity, Athletics staff provided us with the skills to battle and become comfortable in uncomfortable settings. I am thankful for Jennifer Rizzotti, Tanya Vogel and all of the other strong female leaders at GW. These resilient women showed us every day that with a strong work ethic, passion and empathy, success in conquering anything becomes inevitable.
Whether times are positive and optimistic, or we are battling through the adversities that COVID-19 brings, I rely on the example Jen and Tanya set, along with the skills that I developed as a student-athlete at GW each and every day in my career at the Cleveland Clinic."
- Lexi Martins
Capgemini and GW Athletics are proud to honor Lexi and Colonials everywhere who continue to battle this pandemic on the front lines. This week, Lexi, who earned her Master's of Healthcare Administration from GW, provides some insight into what her role has been and how GW helped prepare her for these uncertain times.
"At the beginning of the COVID-19 response, I had the opportunity to help establish, stand-up and manage an Operations taskforce. This taskforce was led by our system's president, Dr. Sabanegh and Chief Nursing Officer, Kelly Hancock. The group included many members of the organization's Executivee Team, and was responsible for the day-to-day operations and surge plan development for Northeast Ohio. On a regular cadence, work streams would report out key updates, barriers and potential endorsements needed to support the task force. These work streams included: ICU, PPE and Reuse, Large Non-traditional Sites, Transportation, Data Model, Documentation, Testing, Communications, Home Health Monitoring, Pharmacy, Supply Chain and Workforce.
The Clinic's focus has now evolved from surge planning and operations, to operations and recovery. I have also had the opportunity to help stand-up and now manage a new task force that focuses on the organization's efforts for "living with COVID." This task force is also composed of a working group of Executive Team members and is responsible for overseeing reactivation of non-COVID care and clinical / non-clinical operations during the COVID / non-COVID environment.
Some of the accomplishments and decisions for which these task forces are responsible include:
- The planning of a non-traditional 1,000 bed hospital in our Health Education Campus (non-clinical medical school)
- The decision to distribute over 60,000 cloth masks per day to all patients and caregivers across each of our campuses.
- The surgical reactivation and testing strategies for non-essential procedures.
The response from the Cleveland Clinic in dealing with COVID-19 has been remarkable. The patient remains the first priority for every decision we make. In our health system, we have taken a team-of-teams approach to ensure we are continuing to deliver the highest quality of care to each of our patients.
I am so grateful for the fundamental experiences I had as a student-athlete at George Washington that prepared me to be a team member and excel within these types of situations. Coach Rizzotti, her staff and the entire Athletics Department at GW created a consistently positive environment for students to prosper during optimistic times. But more importantly, through our semesters and seasons, when teams or individuals faced adversity, Athletics staff provided us with the skills to battle and become comfortable in uncomfortable settings. I am thankful for Jennifer Rizzotti, Tanya Vogel and all of the other strong female leaders at GW. These resilient women showed us every day that with a strong work ethic, passion and empathy, success in conquering anything becomes inevitable.
Whether times are positive and optimistic, or we are battling through the adversities that COVID-19 brings, I rely on the example Jen and Tanya set, along with the skills that I developed as a student-athlete at GW each and every day in my career at the Cleveland Clinic."
- Lexi Martins
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