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. LifeLiner is published on the first and third Wednesdays by the Marketing and Community Relations Department Suzette Rodriguez…...writer, editor Erin Bailey...social media, website To submit news items, call 919-938-7103 or email [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. 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
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