May 6, 2015
RUNNING FOR A CAUSE
NOTEWORTHY
Children’s bereavement camp
scheduled June 13
Applications are now being accepted for
Johnston Health’s Camp Courage, a bereavement camp for children ages 6 to 13.
The camp will be from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m. on
June 13 at Camp Mary Atkinson near Selma.
Activities include music, games and expressive art activities. The staff is made up of
nurses, chaplains, social workers and bereavement counselors, all of whom have
been trained to work with children and teens.
There’s no fee to attend.
The camp is for any child who has experienced the death of someone close to them.
To register, please visit the events section
of www.johnstonhealth.org or contact Murray
Dees at 919-209-5104 or
[email protected].
Nurse council seeks staff input
Want to share an idea or best practice? The
nurse practice council invites all clinical staff
to bring their lunch to a special meet-andgreet scheduled from 11:30 a.m. till 12:30
p.m. on May 8 in the physicians dining room.
Afterward, the meetings will take place every
fourth Tuesday, same time, same place.
Megan Westbrook, an emergency department RN who is chairing the council, says
the group is restructuring itself to become
more staff-driven. She is looking for other
clinical staff who would like to serve as officers. Also, the council is looking for more representation from outpatient areas. The council, itself, meets at 8 a.m. on the third Tuesday in the QM conference room.
Telling the story
For Alexis Barbour, 17, and Ben Pilkington,
16, it’s not about losing weight. Alexis reenrolled in the Healthy Kids program at
HealthQuest Wellness & Fitness Center to
help her deal with stress at school. Ben likes
that his clothes are fitting better. But he’s
appreciative, too, of the class emphasis on
accountability, work ethic, commitment and
perseverance.
Ben’s testimonial is among the letters in
the patient engagement folder available for
reading on Hospital Quicklinks.
Leaders are encouraged to share a patient
story at the beginning of every meeting, including huddles and Monday morning rallies.
“It’s a way to remind us that patients and
their points of view are important,” says Amber Daughtry, the patient experience specialist for Johnston Health. “We can learn from
them and use their feedback to improve our
care and service.”
Next week’s launch will
include T-shirts, posters,
roll-out of a microsite
Runners of all ages and levels of experience participated Saturday in the
Johnston Health Champions 5K. Jonathan Wuntke, who is wearing the
green shirt at center, was among the Johnston Health employees competing
in the timed event. The route was 3.1 miles.
Champions 5K builds co-worker camaraderie
A
sunny morning brought out more
than 250 runners and walkers to
the fourth annual Johnston
Health Champions 5K.
The event, which was staged in front of
the hospital, raised more than $20,000 for
the Angel Fund and the Healthy Kids program.
Alison Drain, director of the Johnston
Health Foundation, says the event is becoming a popular healthful team-building
activity for local businesses and a way to
highlight and raise awareness about the
work and mission of the foundation.
The Angel Fund assists cancer patients
with needs related to their illness, and the
Healthy Kids program teaches healthful
nutrition and exercise habits to children
who are at-risk for poor health. Some of
those children walked and ran in the event
on Saturday.
Of the ten teams entering the 5K, Four
Oaks Bank, like last year, had the most
members with 65. The prize was a pig
pickin’. But after conferring with teammates, captain Erin McMahon announced
that the bank would be giving its prize to
runner-up Kenly 95 Gear’d Up, who had
the broadest age-range of participants.
Also, Gear’d Up walked in memory of
teammate Cody Watkins, who was hit by a
car and killed on March 14 while training
for the event. The team also released orange balloons in his honor.
First-, second- and third-place male and
female finishers were awarded medals
across 11 age categories. Here are some of
the notables: CEO Chuck Elliott and wife,
Deb, both placed second in their age categories; Diane Westbrook of the finance
department placed first in her age category; Rodney Gilmore had the best time,
20:19, and his friend, Dr. Rusty Anderson,
finished second at 21; Tommy Williford
of Smithfield, 80, was the oldest runner.
Among the volunteers were members of
the Smithfield Selma High School baseball and softball teams.
Caroline Johnson of the Kenly team was
among the participants who wrote to
Drain after the race to share feedback.
“It was heartwarming, touching, inspirational, and awesome how we had the right
of way with the traffic,” she said in an
email. And Johnson, who has asthma,
added that she happened to be in the right
place at the right time to lend her inhaler
to a walker who had forgotten to bring her
own. The woman’s breathing had been
noticeably heavy as they both approached
the finish line, she said.
“What a touching, memorable, first 5K
experience,” Johnson wrote. “I will never
forget that morning.”
Practices go live with Epic
On Tuesday, Johnston Health’s physician
practices went live with Epic@UNC. Epic is
an electronic medical record known for its
fast, user-friendly integrated access. The
goal is to create an information system
across all UNC Health Care locations that
has one patient ID, one problem list, one
medication list and one bill for every patient.
The hospital’s transition to the new system
will take place in spring 2016.
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Campaign
centers on
uniting us
UNC Health Care will launch an internal
branding campaign next week aimed at
making co-workers across the state feel
united as one system. Titled The Sum of
Us, it touts what makes all eight locations
unique, and then shows how those traits
come together to provide “expert and empathetic care” to patients.
The messaging will appear on posters and
banners that will be hung this week, and Tshirts that will be distributed to all employees next week.
What follows are a few details about the
campaign.
The Sum of Us,
what it means: The
Sum of Us celebrates
UNC Health Care’s
statewide family of
care, and our collective
strength, which enables
us to deliver complete
care to our patients. The logo is composed
of an encircled plus sign, which reinforces
The Sum of Us message.
T-Shirts, connect the dots: The Tshirts are gray and bear the UNC Health
Care system logo on the sleeve. On the
front, they have a simple “constellation”
design with the dots representing a different entity within UNC Health Care. A special blue dot designates individual locations. On the back of the shirt, all locations
are shown unified across the state.
To get your free T-shirt, please come and
watch a 90-second video about the campaign. The times and locations are listed at
the bottom of the page. Volunteers will be
manning the distribution sites, and will be
asking employees to check off their names
after pick up.
Posters, what makes us different:
All eight entities have their own posters
with key words. Johnston County is known
as the generous and historic home of expert
and empathetic care. That message is represented by an image of the sweet potato, for
which our county is known as a top producer, and the cannon, a reference to the
Battle of Bentonville.
All eight posters will be displayed in
Smithfield and Clayton. The locations will
also be represented on a 3-by-16-foot static
-cling banner with a stained-glass design.
These will also be displayed along hallways on both campuses and the medical
mall.
Check out the microsite: Employees
are encouraged to visit a microsite, UNCTheSumOfUs.org, to test their knowledge
about the entities. Also, they can talk up
their towns or nominate co-workers for
representing complete care. By doing so,
they will be entered to win weekly prizes
and a special N.C. gift. The site will go live
early Monday.
T-shirt distribution schedule
Adding nature to health care
Johnston Health employees and children at the Early Learning Center
enjoyed butterfly releases last week in observance of patient and family
experience week. The children also drew butterflies for patient mealtray placemats and staff submitted creative displays for a competition.
Guest speaker Tiffany Christensen of the North Carolina Quality Center
congratulated and encouraged Johnston Health on its journey toward
patient and family centered care.
Monday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Physicians Dining Rm.
Tuesday: 3-5 p.m., Medical Mall Auditorium
Wednesday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Clayton Classrooms A & B
Thursday: 7-9 p.m. Bright Leaf Conf. Rm.
Friday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Bright Leaf Conf. Rm.;
11 a.m.-1 p.m., Clayton Clssrms A & B
Saturday: 7-9 a.m., Bright Leaf Conf. Rm.
Sunday: 2-4 p.m., Bright Leaf Conf. Rm.;
2-4 p.m., Clayton Classrooms A & B