Information on CHI Financial Reports 

Recent media reports have highlighted financial challenges of our sponsor CHI. Due to a variety of short-term factors, which many national health providers have also faced, CHI has experienced lower than expected financial performance. As a result, the national office is implementing a number of steps to reduce expenses and ensure long-term stability. 

Similarly, at KentuckyOne Health we continue our focused effort to improve our financial position and invest in the employees and communities across the Commonwealth. As we work with CHI in our ongoing efforts to improve our performance, it is important to note that there are no plans for large scale workforce reductions at KentuckyOne Health. As Ruth Brinkley recently shared, KentuckyOne is on track to meet our financial improvement goals of 2015. 

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Thank You for Contributing to Our Workplace 

We appreciate all you do to make KentuckyOne a great place to work and serve our communities. You can share your gratitude with co-workers, too, through the online employee recognition program. In November we focused on appreciating others and moved to a weekly drawing for points. Click here for the list of Week 3 recipients. Now we’re back to monthly drawings — your name is entered each time you give or receive peer-to-peer recognition. Who deserves kudos for something today? Log in here to share your appreciation. 

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Deals for Your Recognition Points Today Only! 

Consider spending your employee recognition points today — a number of special values are available for Cyber Monday only! Log in to the employee recognition site and open the “shop” tab to view the deals on all sorts of brand-name items. Log in here to see what deals await you.

Start Your Regulatory Annual Compliance Training Now   

The KentuckyOne Health Regulatory Annual Compliance training has been assigned in LEARN to all KentuckyOne Health employees with a due date of Jan. 31, 2015. The required training covers several important topics, including corporate compliance, confidentiality, HIPAA, grievances, general safety, security, reporting incidents and infection control. Please make every effort to complete the training components before the end of the year, if possible. 

Get into the habit of checking your LEARN account regularly for assignments, so you are not past due on mandatory training. Modules are continually being assigned, and it's your responsibility to stay up-to-date. Did you know you can access LEARN seamlessly while logged on to Inside CHI (under My Tools, left column of homepage)?

SafetyFirst Great Catch: Sonya Gray 

This week’s Great Catch took place at Saint Joseph London. A patient who had undergone an outpatient surgical procedure left behind her discharge papers and a prescription for pain medication. Sonya Gray, RN, found them and knew that the patient would probably need her pain medication. She also knew that, because of new state laws, the pain medication could not be called in to a pharmacy. The patient would need to have the paper prescription in order to get the medication.  

After calling the patient, who reported being in a good deal of pain, and after her shift, Sonya hand-delivered the prescription to the patient's home. 

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SafetyFirst Focus: STAR 

When you have an important decision to make, or a problem to solve, using the STAR technique can help: Stop, Think, Act and Review. It is especially helpful to use when you are distracted or tired, when you are running behind and feel pressured to work fast, or when you are about to do a high-risk procedure or patient intervention. 

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Complete Requirements for Influenza Program by Dec. 15 

KentuckyOne employees are required to complete actions related to the influenza program by Dec. 15, 2014. Actions required include: 

1. Complete the Flu LEARN Module
2. Complete one of these actions: Receive your flu vaccine
     at a KentuckyOne facility; OR complete the declination 
     form; OR if you received the vaccine from outside of a
     KentuckyOne facility, provide a copy of the completed 
     consent form to Employee Health.  

All documentation must be provided to Employee Health prior to the Dec. 15 deadline.  

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Holiday Giving Opportunity

The Louisville KentuckyOne Wellness Committee is sponsoring Adopt-a-Peace Dove for the holidays. The Peace Doves available for adoption have been hand colored by the children who are being treated at Our Lady of Peace in Louisville. On the back of each Peace Dove are wish list items for the children for holiday gift-giving. The wellness committee is asking that employees or departments adopt a dove and return the gifts unwrapped to their administration departments by noon on Dec. 11.  

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Headlines from Across KentuckyOne 

26th Annual Evening with the STARS Gala Honored Physicians and Community Volunteers; Raised More than $100,000 

Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation Honored Governor and Libby Jones on National Philanthropy Day 

KentuckyOne Health Multiple Sclerosis Care Recognized as Center for Comprehensive Care by National MS Society 

Shop the KentuckyOne Company Store for Great Holiday Gifts 

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Events This Week 

Saint Joseph Hospital Coat Drive Dec. 1-5 

Holiday Healthy Cooking Demo at MCJNE Dec. 4 

Holiday Season Open House at Women's Hospital Dec. 4 

Lights for Life Tree Lighting at SJB Dec. 5 

Donuts with Santa at SMEH Dec. 6 

Annual Perioperative CIED Seminar Dec. 6 

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