Set for June 14 - Southern Ohio Medical Center

[Pages:11]JUNE 7, 2019

Southern Ohio Medical Center's Employee Newsletter

Set for June 14

PAGE 3 | SOMC AND HOXWORTH TO HOST BLOOD DRIVE PAGE 5 | HAPPY ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! PAGE 7 | SOMC PHARMACY TECHNICIAN OPPORTUNITY

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MICHELLE KEARNS

MRI

Melissa Carter

Orthopedic Care Unit

Inside this Issue

1) EVENT CALENDAR & BIRTHDAYS 2) THIS MONTH AT A GLANCE 3) ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS & UPDATES

?? Camp LIFE Coming Soon to the SOMC LIFE Center ?? SOMC Pediatric Guild to Host Touch-A-Truck Event ?? SOMC and Hoxworth to Host Blood Drive ?? Clark Presents at the Ohio Hospital

Association Annual Meeting ?? Welcome, New Employees! ?? Happy One-Year Anniversary! ?? Glow Walk Set for June 14 ?? Summer Solstice Yoga on the River Set for June 21 ?? Be Sure to Complete All End of the Year Education

3) ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS & UPDATES CONT ?? The Foundations of Registration Course Interest ?? Empower Retirement to Offer New Online Services ?? Bike X Box Masterclass Canceled ?? Be Sure to Attend the Service Journey "SOMC Best Airlines" ?? SOMC Pharmacy Technician Opportunity ?? Celebrating Better Hearing and Speech Month ?? SOMC Celebrates Biomedical Engineering Week | June 1-8

4) CLASSIFIEDS

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All Weekly Beat items must be submitted electronically to DuduitKL@.

All items for that week's edition of the Weekly Beat must be received by 3 p.m. Wednesday. Any items submitted after 3 p.m. Wednesday will be held for the following Friday edition.

All items submitted for the Weekly Beat will undergo review by the Weekly Beat editorial board, which consists of members of the SOMC

Community Relations Department. The board will meet weekly to discuss submitted items.

All items published in the Weekly Beat must have a direct link to Southern Ohio Medical Center. Items that do not occur at SOMC, or are not sponsored by SOMC, will not be featured in the Weekly Beat.

For more Submission Guidelines, please review the SOMC Internal Communications Policy on the SOMC Intranet.

Editor

? Kylee Duduit Community Relations

Contributor

? Eric Kephas Community Relations

? Aubrey Roy Community Relations

Designer

? Brock Volio Community Relations

June Event Calendar

June 8

Touch-A-Truck Portsmouth Spartan Stadium 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.

June 14

SOMC Glow Walk Main Campus Lobby Entrance 10 p.m. - 1 a.m.

June 17-21

Camp LIFE Portsmouth LIFE Center 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

June 20

Linen Sale (Pediatric Guild) Friends Community Center 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

June 21

Linen Sale (Pediatric Guild) ED/Waller Corridor 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.

June 20 & 21

Matilda Jane Sale (Pediatric Guild) ED/Waller Corridor 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.

June 21

Summer Solstice Yoga York Park Area Stage (Ohio River) 6 p.m.

Employee Birthdays

June 7

Brent Cochran Judith Evans Caleb Peebles Britnee Swick

June 8

Brittany Besco Anne Kaskey Stacey Kirk Jennifer Sargent

June 9

Lindsey Alexander Carlie Bricker Alec Cox Lacie Elder Tia Forbes Sharon Keaton Karen Kielmar Lana Mercer Mark Near Stephanie Porter Ashley Russell Laura Sova Shelley Sparks

June 10

Kimberly Bridwell Leah Butcher Stephanie Dickess Stephanie Hamilton Steven Harness Kathryn Monnig Thomas Peach Kyleigh Phillips Marsha Ratliff Russell Weeks Barbara Zornes

June 11

Timothy Arms Jessica Bachtel Korina Crabtree Angela Dotson Kyra Hall Jamie Johnson Brooklyn McCarty Amanda Pollitt Joseph Rimmer

June 12

Debra Allen Kayla Bennett Nicole Clarke Valerie Cook Andrea Hendrix Kelli Jackson Dustin Johnson Tina Nichols Robert Riffe

June 13

Isabella Blair June Christian Brenda Compton Olivia Evans Amy Hickman Karissa Lockwood Kathey Malone Lori Phillips Sarah Porter Virginia Sanders Laura Wiget

June At a Glance

Week-Long Observances

Biomedical Engineering Week (1st-8th) Nursing Assistants Week (13th-19th)

Healthcare Risk Management Week (17th-21st)

Honor A Team Member located under "Hot Links" on the Intranet We invite you to pass along a note to a team member at Southern Ohio Medical Center with whom you shared a positive experience. Your story will be shared with the department and team member so that they know how much you appreciate them.

Camp LIFE Coming Soon to the SOMC LIFE Center

It's summertime, the kids are out of school and it's time to get them involved in something fun! SOMC has the answer as the SOMC Portsmouth LIFE Center will host Camp LIFE June 17-21 and July 22-26. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day with drop off time of 8:45 a.m. The camp is open to children ages 7-13 with a cost of $125 per child. Lunch will be provided. The camp will be filled with fun activities while also teaching healthy lifestyles. For more information, please call the SOMC LIFE Center at 740-356-7650.

SOMC Pediatric Guild to Host Touch-A-Truck Event

The SOMC Pediatric Guild will host the Touch-A-Truck event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at the Portsmouth Spartan Stadium (James Street in Portsmouth).

The event will feature all sorts of vehicles including a fire truck, police cars, helicopter, construction dozers, school bus, and a special appearance by Paw Patrol from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Cost is $2 per person. Children age one and under may enter for free. Concessions, snow cones and face painting will also be available!

SOMC and Hoxworth to Host Blood Drive

SOMC will be teaming up with Hoxworth Blood Center to host a blood drive from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 pm on Tuesday, July 2 in Micklethwaite Education Room 4.

To schedule an appointment, please visit groups/somc or call Bev Meadows at 740-356-8670.

Clark Presents at Ohio Hospital Association Annual Meeting

On June 4, Justin Clark, SOMC Administrative Director of Plant Operations, spoke at the Ohio Hospital Association's Annual Meeting on SOMC's journey to becoming an Energy Star Hospital.

SOMC has earned this achievement in 2017 and 2018, as it is reevaluated each year. Out of 6,000 hospitals in the United States, only 70 have earned this designation!

Welcome, New Employees!

Southern Ohio Medical Center would like to congratulate the following employees for recently completing orientation. Good luck in your new positions, and welcome to SOMC!

Chelsey Adkins, Pharmacy Savannah Blevins, MRI Amanda Carpenter, MCU Derrick Chapman, Pharmacy Amy Conlon, SVCU Krista Entenman, MSCU Amy Estep, Patient Registration Saige Fields, SVCU Sarah Fluty, Patient Registration Heather Forrest, Heart Care Unit Amanda Gillam, Diagnostic Radiology Linda Henderson, Medical Center Psychiatric

Jordan Jones, Patient Registration Precious Lynch, MSCU Ashton Martin, West Union Pediatric Associates Terry Mckenzie, Housekeeping Angel New, Telecommunications Ruth Secrist, Housekeeping Jennifer Sikes, Central Scheduling Whitney Spriggs, SVCU Charity Thompson, Patient Registration Lorrie Thornsberry, SVCU Jordan Ware, Pharmacy Ashley Wright, RehabCare Unit

Happy One-Year Anniversary!

Fink, Rowland and Tomchin Celebrate One-Year Anniversaries

Alicia Fink, CNP, Ashley Rowland, CNP and Dr. Tomchin all recently celebrated their one-year anniversaries of working at SOMC. Congratulations on achieving these milestones ,and thank you for providing such wonderful care to the patients of Southern Ohio Medical Center!

Glow Walk Set for June 14

SOMC Employee Health and Wellness will host the Glow Walk where walkers can enjoy a short night walk between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Friday, June 14. The course of the 15 to 20 minute walk will span over the main campus parking lot. If you are interested in participating, please meet at the main campus lobby entrance at any time during the three hours of the event. A walking map and glow sticks will be provided to light the way for your stroll!

Families are welcome to join in on the fun!

Summer Solstice Yoga on the River Set for June 21

Kick-off the summer season with Summer Solstice Yoga on the River! Instructor Tina Chabot will lead the session at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 21.

Those interested in participating will meet at the stage in the York Park area just behind the flood wall. The event is free and open to everyone! All participants are asked to bring a yoga mat, towel and water.

Be Sure to Complete All End of the Year Education

The end of the fiscal year is quickly approaching! With only three weeks left, we want to remind you to be sure to complete your required education for fiscal year 2019.

The required education is as follows: ?? SOMC CORE course (formerly D-Day) ?? Safety Education - Journey into Safety (Safety Education FY 19) ?? Department specific education (jobs specific requirements, such as education, lifesaving certification ? BLS, ACLS, PALS, etc.) ?? TB Program ? questionnaire must be completed by May 31 ?? Flu Program

All education must be completed by June 30, 2019. For more questions, please contact Workforce Development at ext. 2733.

The Foundations of Registration Course Interest

Southern Ohio Medical Center is an organization built on a foundation of many departments that are all significant in ensuring the highest quality of care is provided to the patients of SOMC.

It takes all of these departments, jobs and staff members to adequately provide the highest quality of service. Being such a large company, there is much to learn about other departments and how important their role is to the organization.

For instance, the Registration Department plays an integral role within the organization. They are essentially the first face a patient is greeted by when they step in the doors of any SOMC facility.

The Registration team plays a significant part in establishing a first impression with our patients, assisting them in where they need to go, preparing them for their hospital visit and so much more!

Would you like to know what a registrar does on a day-today basis? Well, you now have a chance to learn!

Interest is being gathered for a possible course on registration and learning more about their department. If you are interested, please email Dallas Miller

at MillerDA@.

Empower Retirement to Offer New Online Services

Empower Retirement (Formerly Great West) sent an email to employees recently describing some newly enhanced online tools available to SOMC employees!

The enhanced services will allow employees to better manage their 403(b) plans online beginning July 1, 2019.You will now be able to change your contributions online without having to go to Human Resources (although you can always visit HR if you prefer). You can also make changes to your beneficiaries, elect to receive electronic communication and monitor your 403(b) account through these new online tools.

Please spend a few minutes looking over these new services. If you have any questions, feel free to call Kitty or Tonya in Human Resources at ext. 8118.

Bike X Box Masterclass Canceled

The Bike X Box 90-Minute Masterclass originally scheduled for Saturday, June 8 at the Portsmouth SOMC LIFE Center has been canceled.

Stay tuned for future events at the LIFE Center!

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