MAY 24, 2019 Southern Ohio Medical Center’s Employee Newsletter Congrats, Graduates! SOMC would like to congratulate our employees and their family members who have completed and furthered their education careers this year. Check inside the issue to learn more about our grads. Congratulations and good luck to the class of 2019! PAGE 4 | PEDIATRIC GUILD TO HOST TOUCH-A-TRUCK PAGE 5 | SOMC PROVIDES SPORTS PHYSICALS PAGE 9 | CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES 2 MICHELLE KEARNS MRI Tracy Ferguson Emergency Department Inside this Issue 1) EVENT CALENDAR & BIRTHDAYS 3) ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS & UPDATES CONT 2) THIS MONTH AT A GLANCE » Bike X Box Coming to the SOMC 3) ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS & UPDATES Portsmouth LIFE Center » Pregnancy and Infant Loss » CrossFit Alpha Pack Teams Up Remembrance Walk Set for June 1 with Operation Gratitude » SOMC Pediatric Guild to Host Touch-A-Truck Event » Welcome, New Employees! » SOMC Provides Physicals for Local Schools » SOMC Celebrates Medical Transcriptionist Week | May 19-25 » Be Sure to Complete All End of the Year Education » Celebrating Employee Health & Fitness » Medical Library Offering Exam Day at the 2019 Poker Walk Proctoring for NCCT Certifications » Congratulations, Graduates! » Weight Watchers Wellness Workshop Kick-Off Set for May 31 4) CLASSIFIEDS » CrossFit Alpha Pack to Host Memorial Day Murph SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Editor • Kylee Duduit All Weekly Beat items must be submitted Community Relations Department. The board Community Relations electronically to [email protected]. will meet weekly to discuss submitted items. Contributor All items for that week’s edition of the Weekly All items published in the Weekly Beat must have a • Eric Kephas Beat must be received by 3 p.m. Wednesday. direct link to Southern Ohio Medical Center. Items Community Relations Any items submitted after 3 p.m. Wednesday that do not occur at SOMC, or are not sponsored Designer will be held for the following Friday edition. by SOMC, will not be featured in the Weekly Beat. • Michael Mayne All items submitted for the Weekly Beat will For more Submission Guidelines, please Community Relations undergo review by the Weekly Beat editorial review the SOMC Internal Communications board, which consists of members of the SOMC Policy on the SOMC Intranet. June Event Calendar June 1 June 8 Pregnancy and Infant Loss Bike X Box Remembrance Walk Portsmouth SOMC LIFE Center Shawnee State University 7:15 a.m. Registration at 8:30 a.m. | Ceremony at 9 a.m. June 5 & 6 June 8 Doterra Essential Oils (Kardia Touch-A-Truck Guild) Portsmouth Spartan Stadium ED/Waller Corridor 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. June 20 & 21 Matilda Jane Sale (Pediatric Guild) ED/Waller Corridor 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Employee Birthdays May 24 May 26 May 28 May 30 Melissa Colley Benjamin Baldridge Rachel Barney Susan Bryant Kimberly DeHart Autumn Bennett David Hall Brandi Calway Erin Fout Amber Carver Jason Hemminger Adriann Cooper Bethany Greenhill Ericka Eldridge Christina Journey Cheryl Harris Karen Hall Lesa Erlenwein Amber Pfankuch Sarah Moore Eve Phipps Donna See Deanna Potter Sara Payne Ashley Scott Cheyenne Smith Brittany Powell Kristi Shepherd Tracy Winters Ashley Stephens Tiffany Stevens May 27 May 29 Teresa Adkins May 25 Brandy Branham Claudia Burchett Cynthia Brown Christopher Brown Leah Clark Mike Cable Katelyn Owens Sandra Lippert Howard Crabtree Sonya McCain Tina Deerfield Kimberly Porter Abigail Pennington Malissa Ratcliff Sheila Riggs Melissa Sparks Glennetta Strickland Jason Swords Morgan Warrick Tiffany Whitt May At a Glance Week-Long Observances Nurses Week (6th-12th) | Medical Transcriptionist Week (19th-25th) 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. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Walk Set for June 1 The SOMC Maternity Department invites you to join them in a Remembrance Walk on the campus of Shawnee State University to raise awareness of pregnancy and infant loss. The walk is held in honor of all babies lost to miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death. The event will begin at the Alumni Green on campus. This event is free to all who have been affected by pregnancy or infant loss. If you wish, you may purchase a sign to honor your baby. The sign will be displayed along the walking path and will have your baby’s name on it. Information about the signs can be found at at www.tristateracer.com Registration begins at 8:30am, and the ceremony will begin at 9am. Those who attend may park at the James A. Rhodes Athletic Center. Resources about perinatal loss and grief will be available. Additionally, a variety of remembrance activities will be available for families to honor the memory of their baby. T-shirts can be purchased during the online registration process with pickup available the day of the event. Those interested in a T-shirt can also contact Deb Rawlins or Kristi Cordle of the Maternity Department at ext. 8136. SOMC Pediatric Guild to Host Touch-A-Truck Event The SOMC Pediatric Guild will host the Touch-A- dozers, school bus, and a special appearance by Truck event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8 Paw Patrol from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Portsmouth Spartan Stadium (James Street Cost is $2 per person. Children age one and under in Portsmouth). may enter for free. Concessions, snow cones and The event will feature all sorts of vehicles including face painting will also be available! a fire truck, police cars, helicopter, construction SOMC Provides Sports Physicals for Local Schools Many middle school and high school athletes had the span of two weeks. We appreciate all who helped make opportunity to receive a sports physical at their schools the sports physicals possible, and ensuring our students this year by SOMC staff. are able to be active in sports in a safe way! A total of 15 area schools participated in the SOMC There will be a free make-up day for student athletes sports physicals, where SOMC medical professionals who still need a sports physical from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. spent the day providing free physicals to hundreds of on Friday, May 31 at the Portsmouth SOMC LIFE Center. students. Over the past six years, SOMC has provided a If you are interested in volunteering next year, total of 10,579 physicals to local area schools! please contact Jill Preston at [email protected] A variety of departments were represented from the or Amber Bloomfield [email protected] . hospital to assist with the sports physicals over the Be Sure to Complete All End Medical Library Offering Exam of the Year Education Proctoring for NCCT Certifications The end of the fiscal year is quickly approaching! The SOMC Medical Library is now offering exam With only six weeks left, we want to remind you proctoring throught the National Center of to be sure to complete your required education Competency Testing (NCCT). The certifications for fiscal year 2019. through the NCCT include: The required education is as follows: » ECG Technician » SOMC CORE course (formerly D-Day) » Insurance and Coding » Safety Education - Journey into Safety » Medical Assistant (Safety Education FY 19) » Medical Office Assistant » Department specific education (jobs » Patient Care Technician specific requirements, such as education, » Phlebotomy Technician lifesaving certification – BLS, ACLS, » Certified Surgery Technician PALS, etc.) » TB Program – questionnaire must be The Medical Library also offers exam proctoring completed by May 31 for employees that are currently in school. » Flu Program For more information, or to schedule an exam date, contact SOMC Medical Resource Specialist/ All education must be completed by June Academic Navigator Becky Baldridge at ext. 8378 30, 2019. For more questions, please contact or [email protected]. Workforce Development at ext. 2733. Weight Watchers Wellness Workshop Kick-Off Set for May 31 Whether you’re continuing your journey or ready to get Members must attend this session in person to check started, don’t miss the next WW Wellness Workshop in, submit their payment and receive their materials/ Kick-Off! digital tools voucher and to be eligible for payroll The weigh-in will be from 1 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. and the deduction. The leader will not be able to accept meeting will be from 1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. on May 31 in payment for members who are not in attendance. Education Room 4 of the Micklethwaite Building. If the minimum enrollment of 15 is not met, the Workshop series will not begin. If 15 participants enroll, 17 weeks of the program will be available for a discounted price of $169.15 instead of the regular price of $199 per member. CrossFit Alpha Pack to Host Bike X Box Coming to the SOMC Memorial Day Murph Portsmouth LIFE Center! The SOMC CrossFit Alpha Pack will host a Memorial Bike X Box 90-Minute Masterclass is coming to the SOMC Day Murph at 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday, May Portsmouth LIFE Center at 7:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 8. 27 at the CrossFit Den (located outside the SOMC Instructors Wendi Waugh, Debbie Kielmar and Alannah Portsmouth LIFE Center). Miller will host the class, which includes the following The workout will include two 1-mile runs, 100 pull- three phases: ups, 200 push-ups and 300 air squats. For more information, visit crossfitalphapack.com Phase 1 or check out the Alpha Pack on Facebook. Warm-Up and Power Step Phase 2 Mash-Up (TRX, Cycling and Penalty Box Workouts) Phase 3 CORE and Cooldown This event is open to the public.