YVMC’s head nurse Maria took me aside yesterday: “I have BIG favor to ask of you.” With trepidation, I stepped aside for a brief chat. “I need you to write a song about Mark and Heather; they’ve been amazing and led the teams to our EHR go-live success. And, can you put it together by tomorrow’s 9am Safety Huddle?”
What!?! Seriously? Does she know how hard it is for me to write these, learn to play the song (badly), practice enough to be willing to play in public?
Oh, well.
Turns out, looking through my song parody library on my Notes app on my phone, I had a parody song, I called “Anschutz Roads” written in 2011 for our initial Epic go live at University of Colorado Hospital. With growing relief, I found that I could adapt it for our purposes here. I also recruited Juliette Callander, Manager of the UCHealth Rev Cycle team, and equally important, a wonderful singer, whose harmonies added a lot to the song.
She took me up on the challenge of learning the melody and the words, as I struggled to get my chord progressions and my strum pattern down. A few minutes of rehearsal in the nearby board room the next morning, and we were on stage at the end of Safety Huddle.
CMIO’s take? You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need. I enjoyed how embarrassed Mark and Heather were during the song. Thanks, you guys are great. Also, I’m winding down my daily coverage of YVMC EHR go live, and returning to our regularly scheduled weekly posts starting tomorrow. See you then!
Yampa road! Love the song! Bravo!!