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In This Edition
- Wishing You the Best in 2023
- Top 3 Baby Names of 2022
- In-Person Hiring Events
- Retirement Plan Statements Electronic
- Labeling Patient Mobility Devices & Lift Equipment
- SafetyZone Updates
- Transitioning Epic Reports
- Paying Invoices by Vendor Category
- Office of Medical Education (OME) Awards
- "A Day in the Life of a Rural Resident"
- Pain Treatment Guidelines Amended
- 5 Tips to Making Resolutions Stick
- 2022 Wellness Grand Prize Winners
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Wishing You the Best in the New Year
Thank you for living our values of compassion, accountability, collaboration, foresight and joy every day. Your dedication makes it possible for Aspirus to fulfill our mission of healing people, promoting health and strengthening communities.
Cheers to a wonderful 2023!
Together, we'll continue to provide the best in rural health care for all who need and depend on us.
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From January 1 to December 22, 2022, the Aspirus Health System welcomed 2,999 babies into the world. A total of 1,557 different names were given to those newborns. Above are the most popular baby names given throughout the system. | |
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In-Person Hiring Events
We’re holding hiring events at locations throughout the system this January. We’re looking for enthusiastic team members who bring their best every day to help provide outstanding care for the patients we serve. Please share news of these events with anyone you know who may be interested in joining our team.
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Remember, you are eligible to earn between $500-$2500 for any candidate you refer to Aspirus Health. There are no limits to the number of individuals you can refer. This is a fantastic way to earn dollars for an upcoming vacation! Payments are distributed after 3 months and 12 months for the $500 bonus and 3, 6 and 12 months for the $2500 bonus.* | |
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Howard Young Medical Center
Cafeteria
Facebook Event listing
Aspirus Riverview Hospital
Conference Room A, B & C
Facebook Event listing
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Aspirus Divine Savior Hospital
Café A & B
Aspirus Medford Hospital
Community Education Room
Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital
Conference Room 1 & 2
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Aspirus Langlade Hospital
Demulling Conference Room A – Large
Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital
Café
Aspirus Wausau Hospital
Medallion Room
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- Same-day interviews and offers.
- Same-day hires eligible for $500 bonus.
- No appointment needed.
- No resume needed.
- No experience in health care needed.
Those who attend can discover a purposeful career in Food Service, Housekeeping, CNAs, Nursing, Revenue Cycle, Accounting, Customer Service, Supply Chain, IT and many other areas.
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* See policy for additional details on the referral bonus process.
Positions eligible for $2500 sign-on bonus:
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Aspirus Retirement Plan Statements Now Electronic | |
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In November 2022, we announced the change to electronic delivery of important retirement plan communications. This is a reminder that Empower will soon distribute your 2022 fourth quarter Aspirus Retirement Plan account statement to you electronically. If you have not changed your delivery preferences since the announcement of this change, you will receive an email to your Aspirus email with a link to access your statement by logging into your online Empower account.
You can make changes to your delivery preferences by logging into your online Empower account or contacting Empower Retirement at 866-467-7756.
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Labeling Patient Mobility Devices and Lift Equipment | |
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Employee Health is labeling all patient mobility devices and lift equipment in an effort to improve employee and patient safety. The intent is to enhance compliance with utilization and ensure best practice. In the upcoming months, you will notice two new labels placed on the equipment:
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Neon green label – identifies the weight capacity of that lift
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Red sticker – serves as a “Timeout” to double check weight capacity and sling size
We appreciate your attention to this initiative and continued efforts to support best practice.
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When submitting an event in the SafetyZone event reporting portal, there have been instances where not all the questions are loading on the page. When this happens, please click the ‘reset’ button at the top of the screen to reset the form and restart your event submission. | |
Maintenance on Jan. 11 & 18 | | |
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The SafetyZone event reporting portal will be unavailable on Wednesday, January 11, from 9-11 p.m. (CST), and Wednesday, January 18, from 10-11 p.m. (CST) due to server maintenance. | |
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Transitioning Epic Reports
If you receive or access Epic data, please be aware of an upcoming change that will impact how some reports are accessed and generated.
Licensing and support for the reporting tool called Crystal Reports is ending and it will soon be retired. The tool has been used to generate reports that are accessible through Report2Web, BI Launchpad, or various reports in PDF or Excel format that are saved to the Y-drive.
Epic data accessed via the methods mentioned above will be transitioned to the following core data and analytics tools used at Aspirus starting in January 2023:
- Epic Reporting Workbench
- Epic Radar Dashboards
- Epic Slicer Dicer
- Qlik Sense
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Team members impacted by this change will receive an email to inform you of the transitioning reports for which you have access. Included in the email notifications will be a survey for you to provide information that will support the project team's transition plans and timelines. If you do not complete the survey, you risk losing access to reports after the transition occurs. Be sure to promptly respond to the survey if you receive one. | |
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Paying Invoices by Vendor Category
Effective Jan. 1, 2023
To help Aspirus prepare for our move to the new Infor Financials & Supply Management (FSM) system in July 2023, Accounting Assistants are now transitioning from paying invoices by Company or “Business Unit” to paying invoices by Vendor Category.
The Vendor Categories align with our Aspirus Supply Chain Procure to Pay process and create team synergy with specific points of contact by vendor rather than company. This will help us build vendor relationships as well as improve workflows and invoice turnaround time from Procurement to Payment.
This change does not impact the process for submitting invoices for payment.
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Continue to send invoices to accountspayable@aspirus.org for payment. All invoices should be submitted to this central email rather than to individual Accounting Assistants.
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Send any questions to invoicequestions@aspirus.org. In the event someone is out of the office or working on special projects, emailing to this central email will ensure inquiries are received and answered in a timely fashion.
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Office of Medical Education (OME) Awards
The Aspirus Office of Medical Education (OME) is recognizing collaboration and contributions made by Aspirus Physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) as clinical teachers for medical students and advance practice clinician students. Award recipients use student, academic or clinical partnership to advance Aspirus academic clinical medicine. This is the fourth year OME has recognized these efforts throughout the Aspirus system.
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This year’s Mission Award goes to Dr. Ryan Beighton from Central Wisconsin Radiologists. | |
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Dr. Beighton demonstrates a passion for training students, recognizing it as the right thing to do to help heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.
Below is a submission by a student of Dr. Beighton.
“He was not assigned to me as an official preceptor, yet he goes out of his way to bring opportunities to me including publishing opportunities, rare cases, and procedure participation. Dr. Beighton went above and beyond to make me feel welcome and important, to educate me, to let me participate, and to provide a research opportunity for me.” - Medical Student
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"A Day in the Life of a Rural Resident" | |
The Wisconsin Collaborative for Rural Graduate Medical Education (WCRGME) visited the Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital campus in October to create a “A Day in the Life of a Rural Resident” video featuring Alexandra Reischman, MD. She completed her rotation with Aspirus Koller Behavioral Health at Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital. | |
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The video will be shared with medical students (and possibly undergrads) who are considering rural medicine with the hope it will inspire them to continue down the path of rural.
Dr. Reischman attended the Ross University School of Medicine. She is in the Central Wisconsin Residency Program, PGY-1.
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Pain Treatment Guidelines Amended
The Wisconsin Medical Examining Board Opioid Prescribing Guideline was recently amended (12/2022). Click the link to review. Thank you to Aspirus Health’s Dr. Kris Ferguson for his contribution to these updated pain management guidelines. Dr. Ferguson is on the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board and the committee that updated these guidelines.
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5 Tips to Making Resolutions Stick | |
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It happens every year. You're jazzed in January to get in shape, stop smoking, eat better – to achieve your goal. But by February, your New Year’s resolution has gone out the window. Does that pattern sound familiar?
“Don’t throw in the towel just yet,” advises Aspirus Business Health Wellness Specialist Patrick Somsen. “You’ve got to stack the odds in your favor by starting with what intrinsically motivates and excites you. Start with small, easily repeatable actions that positively contribute to your 2023 outcome goal, and then gradually scale your way up as the small actions become routine habits.”
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2022 Wellness Grand Prize Winners | |
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Each year we award those who took the time to focus on their well-being and complete all four quarterly wellness challenges. The 10 randomly drawn winners for 2022 got to choose from a list of awesome wellness-related prizes (some options pictured)! Everyoneeligible for the drawing who did not win a grand prize received 7,000 Rewards & Recognition points. Congratulations to all!
Drawing Winners
- Kim Bethke, AI
- Kimberly Cooper, AMG (Stevens Point)
- Michelle Delimat, AMR
- Ashley Frisch, ALH
- Brooke Niemuth, ATRN
- Josh Scott, ARH
- Amber Sherfinski, AWH
- Cathy Skarlupka, ALH
- Pamela Spencer, AMH (Phillips Clinic)
- Name Withheld by Request
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Reminder: Quarterly wellness challenges are open to all employees! Don’t miss your chance to win in 2023! | |
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