Your Input Counts!
Don’t forget you can still put in your thoughts about the Mora expansion. Use the Suggestion Box on the new Intranet! The full size boards are located in the lunch rooms Mora, Pine City and Hinckley.
Administration
Pharmacy
Jenny Houglum Honored for Outstanding Community Service
Jenny Houglum was recently awarded the 2015 Bowl of Hygiea Award for outstanding community service by the MPhA Annual Learning Networking Event on Saturday, September 17. Click here for the complete press release.
Employee Wellness, Uncategorized
Health Milestones Employee Wellness Challenge-INFO
I have Know Your Numbers cards available for those that wish to have a place to write down their actual numbers or health info for the challenge since it is not required to enter this private info on the log sheet that you turn in.
I will have these available in the dining room, in the Wellness office at the end of the HR hallway, and the Mora clinic break room. I will send some over to the satellite clinics as well.
Employee Wellness
Keep A Child Warm Coin Drive-Community Service Event
The Community Service Committee is starting a new community service event called “Keep A Child Warm.” This is a COIN DRIVE where we will be collecting coins to purchase cold weather items for kids in need in Pine and Kanabec Counties. Large cans are now available to place in your area/department. Friendly competition between departments is encouraged! Cans will be collected the week of November 9th by a member of the community service committee. Our goal is to raise $500 to purchase enough items for both counties.
Empty out those pockets or purses and lighten your load knowing you will be providing cold weather items for kids. Your small change can make a BIG difference! THANK YOU!
If your area or department would like a can, please contact Deb Wright at *3586 or at dwright@welia.org. I will send a can over to each satellite site as well!
Administration
Privacy and Security Reminder!
Speak up to protect patient privacy.
Each person in the workforce serves as the eyes and ears to protect privacy and security. If you see patient records exposed, notice password sharing, hear conversations that should be kept confidential, notice someone in a chart they shouldn’t be in, see someone in an area that looks suspicious, not wearing a FirstLight name badge or you simply have never seen before or observe other lapses in privacy and security protections, speak to the individual or someone in charge about the issue. After all, you’ll be protecting a patient’s privacy—and one day, it could be your own privacy at stake.
Marketing
Celebrating PA Week, October 6-12th
October 6-12 marks national Physician Assistants Week.
During this year’s National PA Week, October 6-12, we recognize the important contributions physician assistants (PA) make as valued members of our patient care team.
FirstLight’s PA’s are: Amy Huseby, Renee Coleman, Amy McDaniel, Breanna Cook and Beth Gilbertson, and they play a vital role in providing high-quality care at FirstLight Health System.
The PA profession has grown 36 percent between 2009 and 2014. FirstLight Health System is proud to recognize the PAs on our healthcare team and celebrate their contributions to this organization and the health of the patients they serve.
Did you know…
• There are more than 104,000 certified PAs today. PAs practice in every medical and surgical specialty from pediatric neurosurgery to oncology to primary care.
• PAs conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat illnesses, order and interpret tests, write prescriptions, perform medical procedures—like joint injections—first assist in surgery, counsel patients on preventive healthcare, coordinate patient care, make rounds in nursing homes and hospitals and conduct clinical research.
• PAs are educated through intense graduate-level programs that average 27 months and require the same prerequisite courses as medical schools. As part of their education, PAs complete at least 2,000 hours of clinical rotations in every major specialty, from family medicine to general surgery to emergency medicine.
Reference: www.aapa.org