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Due Today! Have You FinishedYour Mandatory Education andSurvey? The deadline for the 2020 Benefis Health System EmployeeSatisfaction Survey and the Annual Mandatory Education for allBenefis employees is today, Monday, Aug. 31. Benefis conducts the Employee Satisfaction Survey every otheryear. It's completely anonymous. Click here to complete thesurvey, which provides important feedback for shaping policy.

We want to hear from you! All Benefis employees and providers must successfully complete the Annual Mandatory Education with aminimum score of 80 percent. If your score is below 80 percent, you can study the training booklet andretake the quiz right away. The education module is available on the Benefis Intranet under EmployeeCentral or at this link. The survey should be completed at the same time as the education. Please allot 20-30 minutes tocomplete both. If you have questions regarding the education program, please emailEmployeeCentral@benefis.org. If you need a computer, be advised that Computer Lab CSTC on East Campus is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.today, or you may come to Human Resources to use one of the department's computers.

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Cafe Corner

Hours Trimmedfor Labor Day

In observance of theLabor Day holiday,Grounds & Grains willclose at 11 a.m. thisFriday, Sept. 4. In theEast Campus Cafe, theFlavor & Fire and Delistations will be closed. On Monday, Sept. 7,Grounds & Grains will

Health

Keep Your Lungs Healthy DuringWildfire SeasonAs wildfire smoke moves into Montana, it’simportant to take precautions to keepyourself healthy and your lungs safe. TheAmerican Lung Association has a number oftips, including:

Stay indoors when the smoke is thick.Roll up your car windows.Don’t exercise outside.Take precautions for children.

If you have lung disease, chronic heart disease, or diabetes, be sure to keepan eye on symptoms and contact your physician if you are having troublebreathing. For more tips and information, click here. Click here to check the current air quality status around Montana.

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How long has it been since you'vebeen to Montana's most popular statepark?

be closed, as will theFlavor & Fire, Deli, andField of Greensstations. The entire FoodServices team wishesour Benefis family asafe and happy LaborDay next week!

Deals

Annual HolidayBazaar GoesVirtual

The annual HolidayBazaar, sponsored bythe Benefis HealthSystem VolunteerAuxiliary, will be online-only this year. Registration is dueFriday, Sept. 25, to sellitems, which will beposted in This Week atBenefis during theholiday shoppingseason. Registration forms andmore details will becoming to an employeenewsletter near yousoon.

Spectrum MasksAvailable inScrubs ColorsBenefis SpectrumMedical is now sellingmasks made byCherokee. The masks are madefrom scrub fabric with athree-ply design forbetter filtration,antimicrobial and fluidbarrier fabric, soft earloops, and a sturdy front

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Scavenger Hunt Offers Chance toGet Outside and Win!Tired of staying inside? Join an at-your-own-pace scavenger hunt throughout Great Fallsand surrounding areas! All you need to do is snap selfies at GreatFalls landmarks such as Black Eagle Damand Giant Springs and submit them byWednesday, Sept. 30. Participants will have a chance to win an "America the Beautiful" NationalPark Pass, which offers a year of free admission to all national parks andfederal recreation lands. Click here for details on how to play along. The hunt is on!

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Gratitude Moments: Celebrating Our Impact

What Will Your Impact Be?Employee Giving CampaignBegins Next WeekThe campaign we have long known as “WeCare! We Share!” is now “Impact.” At itscore, the employee giving campaign is all about the difference we maketogether for our patients and our community. Get in the spirit of the Impact 2020 employee giving campaign by clickinghere to download an Impact campaign sign. Please fill it in with a marker andsend a picture of yourself holding it to Bekki Hashley at Benefis Foundation bythis Wednesday, Sept. 2. We are excited to kick off Impact 2020 on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Watch yourinbox for more details, and get your sign photos in!

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Volunteers prepare bags forparticipants in the Mayfaire golftournament.

seam to make the maskmore breathable. Spectrum has masks tomatch each Benefisscrub color. Masks arefive for $30. Stop by Spectrum at1411 9th St. S. andcheck them out!

BenefisEmployees GetDeal on DellComputersDell's MemberPurchase Program isannouncing a new,limited-time discountpercentage on Dell andAlienware electronicsand accessories.Members can now save10 percent on top techaccessories, includingmonitors. In addition, Labor DayEarly Access launchedat 6 a.m. today with alimited number of saleitems. Click here for theBenefis Dell page.

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Tuesday:ApplicationDeadline forProfessionalGrowth Program

What will your impact be in the year ahead? Perhaps your answer is a specialfund through Benefis Foundation or the people you hope to help.

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Thank You, Hospice StaffDear Peace Hospice and Staff: My mother was in your care almost a week,and every one of you are truly ANGELS fromHEAVEN. You were all so great to mymother and treated her with great care,love, and respect. You helped her pass withamazing grace. You were never too busy to talk to me or justlisten as it was and is a very tough time.You'll never know how you helped me get through losing my mother, and Icouldn't have done it without you. Thank you all for everything you have done for me. May God bless you all.Please never stop being who you are. - The daughter of a recent hospice patient

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Thank You, Friends of BenefisFoundation, for Mayfaire SupportBenefis Foundation staff wishes to honor thecontributions of all the volunteers, raffleticket sellers, basket donors, golfers, andauction bidders. Thank you for being part of the first virtualMayfaire. Mayfaire is the signature fundraising event ofBenefis Foundation, and this year benefitedthe Women's and Children's Center. Mayfaire 2020 wouldn't have been possiblewithout a team effort!

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New Drone Footage Shows Women's and Children'sCenter Progress

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The deadline for theBenefis ProfessionalGrowth Program istomorrow, Tuesday,Sept. 1. The programrecognizes and rewardsemployees going aboveand beyond. RNs cansubmit renewals or newapplications online. Contact your managerwith any questions.

Remember: LaborDay AffectsPayroll Deadlines

The Finance andHuman Resourcesdepartments will beclosed Monday, Sept. 7,in observance of LaborDay. That means all allmanagers, directors,and editors need toknow that the payrolldeadlines will changefor the week of theLabor Day holiday.Timecard edits andapprovals are due by10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept.8. Dual bills are due at 1p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8.FMLA paperwork mustbe turned in by 4:30p.m. Wednesday, Sept.2. Please submit anyPAFs (includingterminations) and anynew dual bill employeesetups by noon Friday,Sept. 4. Thank you for helpingto meet thesedeadlines! It will helpensure that allemployees see their

Drone footage shows the latest progress on the Benefis Women's andChildren's Center and gives viewers a sense of the scale of the project.

For more information about the project, check out Nesting Notes.

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Faces of Benefis

Benefis Urgent Care WelcomesEmily CoteEmily Cote, FNP, is an urgent carepractitioner with 15 years of healthcareexperience. Emily earned her registered nurse and familynurse practitioner degrees at the Universityof Maine in Orono. She was an emergencyroom nurse for seven years at St. Mary’sHospital in Lewiston, Maine, beforebecoming a family nurse practitioner andmoving to Montana. Emily provided geriatric, palliative, and family medicine atSt. Vincent Healthcare in Billings and most recently was a family practitionerat Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Florence, Mont. Emily loves the outdoors and especially enjoys backpacking and fly fishing.

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Kudos Corner: 'What OurHospital is All About'Today we salute the Radiation OncologyTeam at Sletten Cancer Institute for theirkindness, empathy, and knowledge. Each member of the team strives to ensurepatients receive the very best care during

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challenging circumstances. "The team consistently works hard, putting theirwhole heart into the department and positions to care for patients. Theyroutinely go above and beyond to ensure each patient has as good of anexperience as possible while undergoing cancer treatment," says AprilSpanbauer, manager of Sletten Cancer Institute, Bladder Treatment, andNephrology. We see this whole-hearted approach not only in the daily care they take ofpatients but also in the extras, such as passing out birthday cards with Cafegift certificates, in the raffle of a gift basket to thank patients for undergoingCOVID-19 screenings, in ringing the bell to celebrate the end of treatment,and so much more. "The Radiation Oncology Team is exactly what our hospital is all about, reallycaring for patients the best way possible," April adds. "It is what we do best,and it is people like them who make it a reality. Thank you, RadiationOncology Team! You're all remarkable, and Benefis is so fortunate that youchoose to work here!"

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Watch: Your Urology QuestionsAnsweredOur Benefis Health Sessions have gonevirtual! For August, Dr. Christopher Fukuda and Dr.Rick Slater answered the most common questions they receive asurologists. Urologists provide care for health problems that affect the maleand female urinary systems – including the bladder, kidneys, and urinary tract– and the male reproductive system. Although symptoms of urologic conditions, such as bladder-control problemsor male infertility, can have a huge impact on your life, many people are tooembarrassed to seek medical help. But how else would you address theseissues?

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Welcome New Benefis Leaders!We're happy to announce that Chad Bralickhas been named director of operational

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improvement , and Tyler Webb is the newmanager of information security . Chad takes the helm Sept. 20, and Tyler hasbeen in his role since Aug. 24.

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Technology

Wednesday: Phone MaintenanceMeans RebootFrom 2 to 3 a.m. this Wednesday, Sept. 2,Information Technology Services will performmaintenance to the telephone system. During this maintenance window, all phoneswill receive updates followed by a reboot ofthe phone. When the phone reboots, it will be unusable for phone calls. Thereboot will take between two and 10 minutes. If you are on a phone call, the reboot will not occur until you finish your call. Ifyou get an incoming call during the reboot, the call will go to voicemail if thephone is set up for voicemail or the caller will get a busy signal. Themaintenance will involve a rolling outage within the maintenance window.Once the phone has rebooted, the maintenance for that phone is complete

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