BOYD DAILY NEWS FAMILY – FRIENDS – DAILY EVENTS – BUSINESS - ENTERTAINMENT – POLICIES Issued monthly Keeping staff informed and entertained EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. IX JANUARY 2015 DAILY CHRISTMAS DRAWINGS All drawings are for $10; Christmas day is four drawings of $25 each. Congratulations to all winners! DECEMBER SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY 1 Christina Briles 2 Christy Pyatt 7 Tim Farmer 8 JoAnn Pennell 9 Krista Flatt 14 Travis Bryson 15 William Watson 21 22 Regina Eric Hampton Theivagt WEDNESDAY 3 Barb Lehr THURSDAY 4 Mindy Latham 5 Tuesdi Jones 6 Cynthia Dawdy 10 11 Lucinda Ford Amber Miller 12 Misty Pruiett 13 Josh Martin 19 Cindy Driver 20 Deana Ehrheart 16 17 Helen Copley Lesa Coughlin 23 Jim Johnson 18 Elly Coonrod FRIDAY SATURDAY 24 25 Mary Cay Liz Lehr Whitney Eilerman Sethaler Brandi Martin Ken Gray WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEES! We are happy to welcome two new employees to the Boyd Healthcare Services family! Nancy Wollenweber, Nursing Page Healthcare From The Heart 1 Faye Jarman, EMS JANUARY BIRTHDAYS SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 Faye Jarman 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 William Watson 14 15 Misty Pruiett 16 17 18 Cathy Handlin 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 29 Stacey Meuth Marc Clark Sarah Krepel FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 2 Maliea Gross 3 4 Mary Helen Sethaler 5 6 7 8 Rose Meyer 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 10 Anna Newton Elly Coonrod 17 18 19 Sarah Baumgartner 20 Lisa Eldridge 21 22 23 24 25 Timothy Knabe 26 27 28 Jody Crowe 2 1 Nathan Varble Page SUNDAY C.E.O. CORNER This was my 20th year as the hospital administrator and I want to thank everyone for their hard work and support. We have busy times and slow times but we still have to watch the pennies. This year was probably the biggest in change that I can remember, going completely electronic. I know it hasn’t been easy and there are a lot of changes, but thanks to everyone. It took a team effort to get through Meaningful Use Stage 1. It doesn’t stop, we have to maintain Stage 1 and gear up for Stage 2. Just keep working together and we will survive this technological storm. I definitely want to thank everyone that helped over the holidays. I know that we have been busy, but we must remember customer service. Communication is the key for all employees. Whether it is between the staff and a patient, patient’s family, or another staff member, communication makes everything work smoother. I am hoping that the changes within nursing will also give all departments some extra backing during the night and weekend shifts. Instead of a “Charge Nurse” or a “Resource Nurse”, we now have “shift supervisors” on the nights and weekends. All departments should still follow your chain of command, but the shift supervisors will be able to help with customer service and other issues that can’t wait. Although we have to utilize the chain of command, any time (as employees) you feel that I should be notified, please feel free to contact me. As many of you know, if I am helping with cattle or other family events, I may not have my cell phone on me, but I do check it frequently. If you call me from the hospital, please leave a note at registration as to whom I need to talk to; being from a small community and going to a lot of school/community functions, I want to be forewarned if we have a problem at the hospital. PLAQUE PRESENTED Page 3 The loss of a family member is never easy, so when Rich Hampton passed away unexpectedly, the entire Boyd Healthcare Services family felt it. We all knew Rich as happy, humble, and an amazing Paramedic, he will be greatly missed. EMS had a special plaque made with donated funds for Rich’s family that was presented to his son, Eric, on December 31, 2014; thank you to everyone that contributed. FOOLS RAFFLE The Boyd Foundation will be hosting the “Fools Raffle” again this year! Tickets are $50 each or three for $100; prizes of $100 (5), $250 (4), $500 (3), $1,000 (1), and grand prize of $5,000 to be drawn on April 1, 2015. The early-bird drawing of $1,000 was held on December 26, 2014 in the Reisch Memorial Dining Room by Foundation President Kirby Ballard and C.E.O. Deborah Campbell; the winner was Kyleigh Schmidt, daughter of Boyd Healthcare Services employee Sarah Schmidt. Tickets are available for purchase from anyone on the Boyd Foundation board, Boyd Healthcare Services Board of Trustees, or Administration Office. SMILE WITH BOYD! Smile.Amazon.com is a portion of the website www.amazon.com that gives money back to the charity of your choice every time you shop on their website (if you are an Amazon Prime member, the same services apply to the Smile.Amazon.com website). Be sure to set your charity of choice to Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Hospital Foundation – Check it out today!! MEDICAL REDNECK FUNNIES Medical Term: Tumor Urine Dilate Redneck Interpretation: One Plus One More Opposite of You’re Out To Live Long THANK YOU! Bill Cox and family/friends of Sam Cox would like to sincerely thank anyone and everyone that has been praying for their family during Sam’s recent surgery and hospitalization(s). He is on the road to recovery and they are grateful for the support. Please keep up the good work! IN THE MAIL From time to time, we receive special notes from patients and/or other members of our community. We recently received one from a woman that visited our Emergency Room and stayed as inpatient for a short time; the card reads, “Thank you all for the excellent care. God blessed me for your EMTs, CNAs, Nurses, Doctors – too many to name, so just say “you all”. God bless you all in a special way, will ask add you to my prayer list.” MURDER MYSTERY DINNER Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Foundation is now planning for a new event! A Murder Mystery Dinner will be held on March 28, 2015 at the Carrollton Knights of Columbus Hall; this will be a fundraising event and we sincerely hope that you will consider attending with your friends and family. Tickets will go on sale March 1. More details will be out soon, save the date! Page You can drastically change a word with only changing one letter in the spelling; with a different word, comes a much different definition. Examples follow. Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. Intaxication: Happiness at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. 4 SOMETIMES IT’S FUNNY