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In the December 1, 2015
A weekly publication for you.
St. Joseph’s Breese earns “Top Performer” honors from the Joint CommissionHSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese has been recognized as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of healthcare organizations. Breese was specifically honored for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for:• pneumonia •immunization•surgicalcare•perinatalcare
One of 1,043 hospitals nationwide and 40 across Illinois, HSHS St. Joseph’s Breese was recognized as part of “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety: The Joint Commission’s Annual Report 2015.” The program recognizes hospitals for improving performance on evidence-based intervention that increase the chances of healthy outcomes for patients with certain conditions. To be a Top Performer, a hospital must meet three performance criteria based on 2014 account-ability measure data including:•Achieve cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures;•Achieve performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure with at least 30 denominator cases;
•Have at least one core measure set with a composite rate of 95 percent or above and within that measure set, achieve a performance rate of 95 percent or above on all applicable individual accountability measures.
“Today, we celebrate the successes that represent improvement in the quality of patient care at Joint Commission-accredited hospitals across this country,” said Mark R. Chassin, MD, president and Chief Executive Officer of The Joint Commission. “These Top Performer hospitals are demonstrating how to achieve and sustain superb levels of performance in delivering evidence-based treatments,” he said. “We are proud to be their partner in doing so.”Paulette Evans, St. Joseph’s Breese president and CEO, acknowledged the honor.“We understand that what matters most to our patients is the quality and safety of the care they receive, and that is why we have made it a top priority to improve positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes,” she said. “St. Joseph’s Breese is proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of the entire hospital staff.”
We are HSHS Southern IllinoisHSHS St. Anthony’s Effingham
HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Belleville
HSHS St. Joseph’s Breese
HSHS St. Joseph’s Highland
Our Strategic Goals •Living Our Mission•Quality/Care Integration•Develop Our People•Stewardship: Operations/Finance and Growth
Our Mission: To reveal and embody Christ’s healing love
for all people through our high quality Franciscan
health care ministry.
THIS WEEK AT SJB:30 (Mon) Christmas Light Recycling begins [email protected]
1 (Tue) Advent Bible Study 11-11:30a, Board Room [email protected]
2 (Wed) 1st Wed Mass 11:30a, Chapel Fr. Ed Schaefer will officiate
4 (Fri) 2-7p Franciscan 5 (Sat) 12-4p Nativity 6 (Sun) 12-4p Festival Chiara Center-Springfield www.chiaracenter.org
5 (Sat) Volunteer Christmas Breese KC Hall, to volunteer [email protected]
8 (Tue) Blood Pressures 8-9a, ER Triage Area (ring bell for service)
Keeping Quality Care in the FamilyWe also congratulate all three of our sister HSHS hospitals in Southern Illinois that also received Top Performer Recognition. St. Elizabeth’s was honored for Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Care, Stroke and Perinatal Care; St. Joseph’s Highland placed in Pneumonia and Surgical Care; and St. Anthony’s Effingham was recognized for heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, VTE and stroke. Congratulations to all SID colleagues for putting quality and safety first for our patients.For quality, safety and patient satisfaction results for specific hospitals, visit www.qualitycheck.org. The Joint Commission annual report is available at http://www.jointcommission.org/annualreport.aspx.
Erin Kochan joins HSHSErin Kochan has joined HSHS Southern Illinois Division as a new Outreach Representative for St. Elizabeth’s and St. Joseph’s Breese Hospitals.She has approximately
11 years of experience in the health care field, eight of which were in marketing and sales roles. She began her career at Heartland Regional Medical Center in Marion, IL, and has worked at a variety of Rehabilitation and Nursing Home facilities in the region. Her most recent position was with Kindred Health Care in St. Louis as a Clinical Liaison. Erin earned her Bachelors in Business and Health Administration Science and Masters in Business Administration from Franklin University.Erin’s role will be to primarily promote services to our medical staff communities in addition to assisting with the on boarding of new members of the medical staff.
Complete online consent to download W2 formsIn an effort to align with Franciscan Environmental Stewardship and con tinue our movement toward a paperless environment, all HSHS colleagues have the ability to access W2 forms electronically via PeopleSoft Self Service.To view, email or print your electronic W2 information, you must first complete the online consent. Please refer to this link for detailed instructions. If you signed up last year, you do NOT need to do anything. Your 2014 consent is still valid.All Southern Division colleagues with an online consent form on file as of Sunday December 20, 2015 will be entered into a drawing for a set of tickets to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game in the 2016 season.Once you consent, you will immediately have access to your electronic W2s for years 2009–2014. You will receive notification when your 2015 W2 becomes available in your Self Service account. This W2 repository will continue to grow as each year ends. While colleagues are not required to receive their W2 electronically, it is preferred as it offers many advantages:•Early Receipt – Electronic W2s will be made available significantly sooner than US postal. You can file your taxes sooner.•24/7 Easy Access – You can sign on to your Self Service account any time of the day, any time of the year to access current and historical W2s.•Environmentally Friendly – W2s can be completely paperless as they can be emailed from Self Service.•Rapid Reprint – If you lose your W2, you can reprint from Self Service without submitting a request to your local Payroll or People Service team.•Historical Repository – W2s from 2009 to present will always be available in Self Service as each year will be added to the repository. •Multiple HSHS Local Ministries Available – If you transferred from one Local Ministry to another after 2009, W2s from all HSHS Local Ministries will be available.
Hospital float rings in the Christmas season
Volunteer Silver Bells Pauline Albers, Marilyn Athmer and Karen Lager, along with (hidden) Gloria Baro and colleague Mary Scott, join Director of Volunteers Judy Schrage (top) and drivers Don Hostmeyer and Stan Albers in ringing in the holiday season during the Breese Chamber of Commerce Lighted Christmas Parade and Fireworks on Saturday, Nov 28. Look for the float in the rescheduled Carlyle Christmas Parade at 6:30pm on Friday, Dec 4.
With deepest sympathy Maximino B. Floreza, MD, 89, of Trenton, died Sunday, Nov 22, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
A family practitioner in Trenton, Dr. Max Floreza, and his wife, anes-thesiologist Belen Floreza, MD, were long-time members of our active medical staff. He retired Nov. 1, 1996 after 26 years of medical practice.Survivors include his wife Belen of Trenton, children Eileen (Howard) Wong, Mabel Floreza, Noreen Floreza, Melvin (Betty) Floreza and Carol (Jeff) Rich; grandchildren Severa, Maxine, Abby, Belen, Gabriella, Jack and Madeline; and a niece, Ofelia Santos.
Dr. Chris and Lisa Rivera’s Nativity on display Dec 4–6 at ChiaraA lovely Fontanini Nativity set owned by Dr. Chris and Lisa Rivera of Carlyle will be the St. Joseph’s Breese entry for this year’s Franciscan Nativity Festival at the Chiara Center in Springfield.
With more than 100 international Nativity sets and tours of St. Francis of Assisi Church, the festival is open from 2–7pm Friday, Dec 4, and from noon–4pm Saturday and Sunday, Dec 5–6. The event is free; groups are welcome.
The Chiara Center is on the campus of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, sponsor of Hospital Sisters Health System and 14 Illinois and Wisconsin hospitals, including HSHS St. Joseph’s Breese.
Dr. Chris Rivera, son of long-time area surgeon Dr. and Mrs. Renato Rivera of Breese, said the original grouping was a wedding gift that the family has added to over the years. It now totals 16 pieces including the Holy Family, Wise men and animals.
“We set it out every year at Christmas and the kids have always played with the figures,” Dr. Chris Rivera said.
“When our youngest daughter was around six, she was scared to sleep in her own bed by herself and we gave her the baby Jesus figure to sleep with,” he said. “She slept with baby Jesus by her pillow for several months that year.”
The Nativity Festival serves to educate
people about the tradition of the Christmas crib that dates back to St. Francis of Assisi.
“St. Francis believed that Christmas was the dearest of feasts because it meant that God was now one of us — flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone,” said a Chiara Center spokesperson.
“He prepared a manger, lead in an ox and ass and called together the men and women of Greccio, Italy. At midnight on Christmas Eve, candles and torches, faith and love, lit up the night as Greccio became a new Bethlehem — the animals and people recognizing in their midst God becoming Flesh.”
The Chiara Center is at 4875 LaVerna Rd in Springfield. For information, visit www.chiaracenter.org or call 217-523-0901.
This Fontanini Nativity owned by Dr. Chris and Lisa Rivera will represent HSHS St. Joseph’s Breese this year at the Franciscan Nativity Festival at the Chiara Center in Springfield.
Please remove ties, wraps and cardboard. Deposit in bins near hospital entrances.
Advent Bible StudyOn the four Tuesdays of December
(1,8,15 and 22) from 11–11:30am in the Board Room, Pastor Carl Johnston
of the Pastoral Care team will be conducting an Advent Bible Study.
These sessions are open to all. They will begin and end on time to
accommodate busy schedules.
Click to view theADVENT MEDITATION FOR WEEK 1
from the Hospital Sisters
Colleagues & retirees
are invited to join the fun at the
HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese
Annual Christmas Meal in the Cafeteria
on December 17
Accepted HMO Plans:•Aetna• CignaHealthCare• CoventryHealthCareofMissouri
• CoventryNationalNetwork• HealthAlliance• Healthlink• Humana• Tricare/Champus• Triwest• UnitedHealthCareMidwest(UHC)
Accepted PPO/Other Plans:•Aetna• BlueCross/BlueShieldofIllinois
• CignaHealthCare• CorvelWorkComp• Cofinity• CarelinkHPNCoventry• CoventryHealthCareofMissouri
• CoventryNationalNetwork• FirstHealthNetwork• HealthAlliance• Healthlink• HFN• Humana• LandofLincoln• Multiplan• UnitedHealthCareMidwest(UHC)
Accepted Medicare Replacement Plans:• CoventryHealthCareofMissouri
• AdvantraPlans• GoldAdvantage• HumanaMedicareAdvantagePlans
• MeridianHealthPlan• MolinaHealthPlan•Wellcare• UHC&UHCSecureHorizons-Notcontractedbutmemberscanusuallyusefacility
Accepted Medicaid Replacement Plans:• HarmonyHealthPlan• MeridianHealthPlan• MolinaHealthPlan
Accepted Healthcare Exchange Plans:• Coventry• LandofLincoln
Medicare & Medicaid
To better serve our patients health care needs,HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital Breese participates in the following managed care insurance networks:
Health Insurance Options for Patients
For more information contact:JoAnn Clayborne
(618) 234-2120, [email protected]
LaShonda Thomas-Butler(618) 234-2120, x-2595
Remember:• Insurance companies can change
networks, benefits and/or providers without notice.
• Some insurance companies may attempt to steer patients away from St. Joseph’s Breese for certain tests or procedures. Please let us know if this happens.
• Before seeking non-emergency types of health care, patients should check with their insurance company, HMO or PPO network or employee benefits department to ensure all services are covered at HSHS St. Joseph’s Breese.
• Patients may be liable for certain services if they are not pre-authorized. Always check with health plans prior to any elective admission or testing to determine if it is a covered service.
• Patients may receive separate bills for services provided through St. Joseph’s Breese from emergency physicians, cardiologists, radiologists, pathologists, anesthesiologists and other physicians. They are not employees of St. Joseph’s and provide services through independent practices or other entities.
HSHS Colleague Insurance is NOT affected by the recent Blue Cross Blue Shield changes.
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Free blood pressure checks Dec 8 in ER Triage areaFree blood pressure checks will be available from 8 to 9am Tuesday, Dec 8, in the Emergency Room triage area (ring buzzer). This is the final check for 2015.Screenings, such as these offered each month at the hospital and at the spring and fall health fairs, help identify potential problems or monitor existing situations. According to the American Heart Association, the higher the blood pressure, the greater the chance of heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney disease. Early identification can prompt lifestyle changes and focused treatment options resulting in less cardiovascular and kidney disease later in life.At one time, readings in the 140/90 range were acceptable but now, those with a reading of 120 to 139 over 80 to 89 are considered pre-hypertensive, at higher risk and more likely to require medication.
New St. Elizabeth’s update
Construction of the new HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital is visible if you look to the East between exits 14 and 16 of Interstate 64.
Lunch pavilion at colleague entrance is blessed
The new pavilion was blessed and the builders were thanked during a Nov 24 ceremony outside the East colleague entrance. Among those in attendance were Director of Volunteers Judy Schrage; volunteer builders Stan Albers, Betsy & Dennis (Fuzzy) Kampwerth, and Dave Athmer; CEO Paulette Evans; and Chaplains Sister Joan Markus, Deacon Rich Bagby, and Pastor Carl Johnston.