GSCH Employee Newsletter

Employee Newsletter | June 2021

After a long hiatus during the pandemic, the Employee Newsletter is back! It will come out every other month for now. Help make it as interesting and useful as possible by sending your suggestions to the Marketing Portal (icon on your desktop) or to Lisa Zhe.

IN THIS ISSUE

THIS ISSUE ONLY

A New Home for Families First

Intake Packets, Websites Translated

Meet the IT Team

"2-4-6-8: Who Do We Appreciate?"

Hosting Our 1st Dental Resident

Attending All-Staff Meetings is Required

IN EVERY ISSUE

New Employees

Mark Your Calendar

Current Job Openings

Pass it On (Referrals)

Work Anniversaries

In the News

Welcome, New Employees

We welcome our latest group of new hires to the Greater Seacoast Community Health family. Take some time to see who you might run into and remember to introduce yourself and welcome your new teammates.

Sawyer Anderson - Dental Receptionist @ Goodwin

Maria Benzekri

MA @ Goodwin

Dr. Nancy Braese

Residency MD @ Goodwin

Kaitlyn Frost COVID screener @ Families First

Emily Grattan – Nurse Practitioner @ Families First

Justin Jewell

MA per diem @ Goodwin

Chase Oleson

MA @ Goodwin

Emily Pascoe

WIC Nutritionist

Yvette Poole

Social Worker @ Families First

Kaylee Shipman

Patient Advocate @ Goodwin

Thomas Smith – Facilities Coordinator/Van Driver

Deborah Steinberg

MA @ Goodwin

Kristin Valdez

COVID screener @ Goodwin

Melanie Ward

COVID Screener float

Erin Wintle

Residency Administrator

and Assistant to CMO

A New Home for Families First

Construction for the new Portsmouth location is moving right along! Above is a recent photo of the Greenleaf Woods building as it starts looking less like a gym, and more like a community health center.

We are expecting to receive access in November, then IT will do their thing and furniture will be moved in. We don’t have an exact move-in date yet, but will keep you posted as we get closer. For now, Families First employees should purging any items you don't need, including scanning files so you can bring less paper.

Learn more about the new building and the capital campaign HERE. The campaign is in full swing, and TODAY (June 9) is NH Gives day, where donations to the campaign are being doubled thanks to generous friends at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Evans Morone Family Fund. Please help spread the word! The link to support the campaign and help us earn the NH Gives match is below, along with links to support the Goodwin and SOS NH Gives campaigns.

NH Gives continues through 5 pm on June 9. Here are our NH Gives pages:

Families First | Goodwin Community Health | SOS

Learn More About Building & Campaign

Intake Packets, Websites Now Translated

To better meet the needs of patients who are best served in a language other than English, our intake packets for new patients and annual renewal packets are now available in Spanish and Indonesian. Coming soon: Portuguese and Vietnamese.

You can find them:

on the new Patient Info page on our GetCommunityHealth website
on the network (N drive) under Forms\Billing & Front Office\Patient Packets_new_annual\Other languages

Also, our websites have a “Translate” button at the bottom of every page that will translate the website content into Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Vietnamese and two kinds of Chinese.

Meet the IT Team

and play the Fun Facts game

Each month, we feature a different department in the newsletter. This month, meet the IT team and see if you can guess which fun facts go with which person.

But first: IT Manager Shawn Linscott wants to remind all staff that the best way to get IT help is to use the Help Desk icon on your desktop. He also notes: "It is common for there to be questions or additional info needed that is put into the ticket after you submit it. We are finding that we often not getting any response to these questions, which will delay your reported issue from being resolved. When an update or question is put into a ticket, you will receive an email with that information, etc. Please help us help you by responding to the questions in the ticket! Change is a constant in Information Technology; it is as they say, a 'journey not a destination' -- there is always more to be done!"

Matt Chandler, IT Helpdesk/Data Analyst. Based at Goodwin.

Shawn Linscott, IT Manager/Network Administrator. Based at Goodwin.

Collin Litchfield, IT Project Implementation Lead. Based at Goodwin.

Melissa Niles, Report Analyst

Based at Goodwin.

Sharlene Poitras, Chief Information Officer. Based at Goodwin.

Tim White, IT Support Manager. Based at Families First.

Fun Facts about IT Team Members

Guess who said what, then scroll down to see if you are right!

a. I have four kids and am a cancer survivor.

b. I am the Mom of one son, 33-year-old Andrew, and a black lab, 5-year-old Chug.

c. I love to travel and do so every chance I get, enjoy hanging out with my family and friends. I rode a camel in the Sahara Desert and a motorcycle through the Teton mountains. I also like to refinish and repurpose furniture in my spare time.

d. I have a twin brother, I’m learning to play guitar, I grew up in Beverly MA, I’m a big soccer fan and my favorite team is Leicester City FC in the English Premier League.

e. My father has done extensive work on tracing our family tree on his side, and apparently our family was chased out of Scotland/Ireland for trying to overthrow the English government, and we came to America illegally as criminals of the crown and were smuggled in boats to Ellsworth, Maine.

f. I can play five musical instruments to varying degrees of success - guitar, bass guitar, French horn, violin and mellophone.

2-4-6-8: Who Do We Appreciate?

See Something? Say Something!

Going above and beyond is just what we do, but being recognized for it is always special. If you catch someone caring, take a minute to write about it in a Star Card / Shout Out. Use one of the postcards found in our staff lounges or the Staff Shout Out icon on your desktop. Your comments will be shared with the person you appreciate (can be anonymous) and also read at All-Staff meetings. Feeling appreciated is great for morale, and increasing the amount of appreciation going around in our workplace is something all of us can help with.

Hosting Our 1st Dental Resident

The dental department is embarking on a residency program with Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Our first resident will be joining us 16 hours per week in July.

A Dental Public Health Residency (Certificate) is a two-year program qualifying graduates to take the American Board of Dental Public Health specialty examination. Residents work in the four knowledge areas of the Public Health specialty: epidemiology, research methods, social determinants of health, and dental public health practice.

Attending All-Staff Meetings is Required

Reminder: Attending All-Staff meetings is required if you are scheduled to work during the time the meeting is held (2nd Wednesday each month from 8-9 a.m. or 8-10 a.m.) The only exception is if your supervisor excuses you from the meeting. Staff who are not scheduled to work at that time are welcome and encouraged to attend if they can and will be paid for their time if they do.

If you don't have this meeting on your Outlook calendar, please write to HRGroupMailbox@goodwinCH.org. You can also find the meeting schedule and Zoom links on the ADP home page in the Mark Your Calendar section.

Mark Your Calendar

Father's Day 5K Virtual Race

June 19-20, anywhere

Sign up to walk or run a 5K course (3.1 miles) in your neighborhood, on a treadmill, or anywhere you’d like Father’s Day Weekend as part of a fundraiser for Greater Seacoast. Registration is free to employees! Click this registration link and select Employee 5K as your event. To register your family at the same time, select Virtual 5K Run or Walk for their event. Enter the promo code GSCHfamily at checkout to receive 50% off registration for immediate family members.

NH Gives

June 8 (starting 5 p.m.) through June 9, online

NH Gives is an annual statewide fundraising effort that gathered tens of thousands of dollars for non-profits and charitable organizations last year, and can do the same for us this year. Please help make this day a success by sharing our Facebook posts, and if you would like to give yourself, here are the links:

Current Job Openings

New Jobs for You and Your Friends

The button below links to current open positions at GSCH. (You can also always find this link on both Families First and Goodwin websites.) Take a look and see if any are right for you or someone you know. There are referral benefits in many cases! Right now we have openings for Nurses, Accounting Manager, Dental Receptionist, Home Visitor and more.

Job Postings

Pass It On

Please Refer Your Clients to These Greater Seacoast Programs

Dads Cafe

Tuesday, June 15th, online

This is an opportunity for dads to talk to other dads…about family, fatherhood, ways strengthen your family and ideas for supporting kids of all ages. Sign up here.

Helping Kids Manage Anxiety

Tuesday, June 22, online

Lynn Lyons presents Understanding Anxiety & Helping Kids Manage During Uncertain Times. Sign up here (and you are also welcome to join the Book Discussion Series that will continue the conversation throughout the summer).