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Employee Wellness “Show Your Bib Challenge!”

Show your bib pic

Don’t forget that the Show Your Bib Challenge is currently going on.  If you participated in some type of event where you received a bib (for example the COLORMY5K on June 4th…), you can earn tokens to be put in a drawing for one of two $150.00 gift certificates to either: Lee’s Pro Shop, PD’s Embroidery or Amazon.  You also get a High Five token to keep.

Send a photo of your bib, name and date of event to: wellnessemp@welia.org

Local events in Kanabec or Pine County will get you TWO tokens in the drawing; all other events will get you ONE token in the drawing.  Right now we have 25 tokens in the drawing!

Review the flyer below and start earning your High Five tokens.Show Your Bib-picture of token

 

 

Show Your Bib

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2016 Steve Schulz Visionary Award Winner!

Cheryl_Steve Schulz Visionary Award 2016

Running into an extraordinary person at FirstLight isn’t uncommon, but Cheryl Blegen is beyond the exceptional.

Recently, Cheryl was the recipient of the Steve Schulz Visionary Award for her connection to the community and involvement with local law enforcement.

Cheryl has been a member of Kanabec County since 1990 when she was hired on the ambulance crew at FirstLight (then Kanabec Hospital).   During the next 20 years, while working with the ambulance team, she was offered an opportunity to train within the pharmacy department to become a Certified Pharmacy Technician. Cheryl has also volunteered as a Sheriff’s Reserve and been active as an Ogilvie First Responder.  Helping people has always been a passion of Cheryl’s and when she battled some personal health issues, she still managed to continue to volunteer alongside local law enforcement.

The Steve Schulz Award encourages citizens to get involved in community efforts to reduce crime by bridging the gap between citizens and local law enforcement.   Each year, Kanabec County’s BADGES division presents the award.  This award is given to a nominated individual who has provided some sort of quality improvement to Kanabec County.

Congratulations, Cheryl!  You are a true leader within your community and an asset to the FirstLight family.

 

Meeting Minutes

Environment Of Care Minutes – May 2016

TITLE: ENVIRONMENT OF CARE COMMITTEE

Date May 4, 2016

FOCUS

DISCUSSION

ACTION/FOLLOWUP/EVALUATION

 

ATTENDANCE:

 

Ellen Ryan, Karen Renaud, Cindy Teichroew, Kim Carlson, Kris Bombard, Mark Vizenor, Julie Ray, Kris Bombard

 

 

 GOVERNING BOARD RESPONSE:

Documentation reflects the Governing Board indicates a concurrence to the action of the Safety Committee with no additions or information required for the meeting of February 3, 2016

 

MINUTES:

The Minutes of February 3, 2016 meeting were accepted as written.

 

 

GENERAL SAFETY

 

Employee incidents for the 1st quarter of 2016 were reviewed. There were 4 employee injuries and 2 patient related issues.

 

There were 6 inpatient falls with 2 injuries and 1 eye clinic patient fall with no injuries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN:

FROM PREVIOUS MEETING:

Hazardous/Waste and Cleaning product inventory will be discussed next meeting. Working on complete the inventory.

 

PLAN:

Mark to develop a plan with Materials Management to identify cleaning materials that are FLHS approved.

 

INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flu shot vaccination of employees totaled 93%.

There were 2 Construction permits were issued during the 1st quarter- 1 CSR/Decon Wall Project, 1 Mora Eye Clinic

 

Discussion on Sharp’s vendor – waiting on a proposal from Bio-hazard/Sharps waste vendor.

Environmental Service is evaluating proposals from Laundry service providers and will be doing site visits in the near future.

  There were no sharp’s injuries or blood exposures in the first quarter – great job!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND WASTE

 

Nothing to report at this time.

 

 

HAZARD SURVEILLANCE:

 

 

TLC has completed the hazardous surveillance inspection and Facility Operations is working on rectifying the deficiencies.

 

 

 

SECURITY:

 

 

Violence Prevention Team update – they are continuing to meet and review incidents along with revising response plans.
 

FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: Panic button solutions are being further explored for all sites.

 

Digital radios are being passed out during the evening shifts for quicker response time to emergencies.

 

Security/maintenance new position has been filled.

 

 

 

 

 

FOLLOW UP:

Panic button solution is completed and working well. Looking to do the same at Hinckley and Pine City.

 

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLHS participated in the MN state wide exercise MnTrac Exercise on March 29th. Great experience and good training session

The Emergency Codes-Flip Charts are being updated and will be distributed to

Departments and clinics when complete.

The new 3M PAPR’s have arrived and they will be stored near the Emergency Department.

 

FROM PREVIOUS MEETING: The video “RunHide/Fight” video will be shown to new employees as part of orientation and departments will share it with staff as part of education and discussion to help prepare for emergency situations.

 

 

 

FOLLOW UP:
Departments are making revisions and will report back to Jill for final distribution.

 

 

 

 

 

FOLLOW UP:

Mark Vizenor will forward the Run/hide/fight video to departments to watch and discuss – completed by, June 1, 2016.

 

EDUCATION:

 

 

    • 2016 OLE online Training update

ü  Alpha 53% completed

ü  Beta 49% compleed

ü  Gamma 51% completed

ü  Violence Preventaion 55% completed

ü  Legal Compliance 60% completed

ü  HIPAA 60% completed

 

 

EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

TLC has reviewed the Preventative maintenance report (see attached)

§  36 Pieces of equipment added

§  7 pieces have been retired

§  100% of Class I preventable maintenance completed

§  100 of Class II has been completed

§  0 patient incidents reported

§  3 User errors

§  2 Misuse errors

Recall notices have been uploaded to the Public recall folder and have been forwarded to the appropriate managers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRE SAFETY:

 

All fire drills have been completed for 1st quarter of 2016

 

Positive feedback noted on fired drill critiques from staff on the laminated smoke compartment maps. Very helpful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UTILITY MANAGEMENT

 

Lab had a chemical analyzer failure due to heat – has been rectified.

 

OTHER:

 

COLA inspection went well.

 

Discussion on temp trak response time. More discussion at next meeting.

 

 

 

PLAN:

Develop a process for a response plan for temp trak notifications.

 

NEXT MEETING:

 

Next regular scheduled meeting will be Wednesday, August 3rd at 9am in Small Conference Room.

 

 

 

Meeting Minutes

May Leadership Minutes

Attendance:   Brenda Moos, Sandy Zutz-Wiczek, Diane Bankers, Garrett Estenson, Stacey Heins, Leann McMullen, Robert Woods, Ellen Ryan, Randy Ulseth, Jo DeFeyter, Jill Sawyer, Brent Thompson, Kris Bombard, Julie Ray, Mark Vizenor, Becky Gallik, Karen Renaud, Heather Sanftner, Kim Tepley

Absent:          Kim Carlson, Gordy Forbort  

 

ADMINISTRATION/BOARD/FINANCIAL UPDATE – Randy Ulseth

Meeting Minutes

April Leadership Minutes

 

Attendance:   Kim Carlson, Brenda Moos, Sandy Zutz-Wiczek, Diane Bankers, Garrett Estenson, Stacey Heins, Leann McMullen, Robert Woods, Ellen Ryan, Randy Ulseth, Jo DeFeyter, Jill Sawyer, Brent Thompson, Gordy Forbort, Kris Bombard, Julie Ray, Mark Vizenor, Becky Gallik

Absent:          Karen Renaud, Heather Sanftner, Kim Tepley         

 

ADMINISTRATION/BOARD UPDATE – Randy Ulseth

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