by Jill Green & Molly Motsinger

WHAT'SHAPPENING

JULY 2019, VOL.1 (15)

DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH CENTER

HELLO

DOUGLAS COUNTY

HEALTH CENTER! 

*The newsletter will be dispersedprimarily via email, however a

few hard copies can be found incommon areas throughout the

building.

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Birthstones: RubyZodiac Signs: Cancer (June 21 - July 21)Leo (July 22 - July 31)Flowers: Larkspur or Water LilyHolidays:  July 4 - Independence Day

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NEWSLETTER

Staff DevelopmentUpdates 11-12

What is Happening in Your Department?

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NEWPOLICIES!

Check out the new/updatedpolicies that have been addedto policy tech this past month!

A Word FromAdministration

"DCHC- Moving into the 21st Century.....The time has finally arrived after many years of

working, building, and testing our new ElectronicHealth Record. Change is never easy, but the results

at the end of the day is what counts.First, I would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to all theemployees throughout the facility that have taken thetime out of their normal every day duties to help build

this program.

Next, I would ask that we would all be patient andrealize we are all in this together. There will be

challenges and problems, but we will work to come upwith solutions.

Finally, let's not be scared of the new challenge ahead,but embrace it!

DCHC is a great place to be!"

~Erin Nelson~Interim Administrator

Bowel Protocol Tornado watch &warning

Security Update

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ComplianceHotline!

There will be a new compliancehotline that will be posted in the

employee break areas

The hotline is for reportingcompliance issues such as

fraud, waste & abuse.

Concerns can be left on thehotline voicemail and you do not

need to leave your name.

All concerns will beinvestigated.

Compliance Hotline Number:

402-378-1104

Compliance Department

What is Happening in Your Department?We've Got Folgers!

Dietary recently installedFolgers coffee on all of the

neighborhoods for ourresidents

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~Chief of Security~ -Carlisle Conolley

To all employees, we areseeing more and more

employees parking in thevisitor lot with the risk of being

ticketed and possibly beingtowed please park in your

assigned area and if it is fullthen park in your designated

overflow lot. If you areunsure of where to park come

and ask security we will beglad to help you. We do not

want any of our employees tobe ticketed or towed, but wewill follow the policy set forthby our Board of Trustees. Ifyou have questions pleasefeel free to contact me byemail or you can call 402-

444-7615.

What is Happening in Our Community?

NAMES TO KNOW Board of Commissioners/Trustees

Clare DudaMarc Kraft

Mary Ann BorgesonMike Boyle

James CavanaughPJ Morgan

Chris Rodgers

STAFF UPDATES

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Interim Administrator

Interim Chief Nursing Officer

Judy Delgado

Medical Director

Dr. Karina Bishop

Compliance Officer

Jeannine Mulligan

Director of Finance

DeDe WIllDirector of Pharmacy

Erin Nelson

Director of Support Services

Jan Hankey

Clinical Director - LTC

Dr. Nichelle Horton-Brown

Erin Nelson

GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK!

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The Kudos Program was implemented in June 2018 as a way to create social wellnessin our building, creating stronger relationships between employees and making DCHC

a family bond. Please help recognize our winners who were nominated by fellowemployees for going "above and beyond" their daily duties!

Those who are recognized please stop

by Molly Motsinger's office to receive a

pin  of recognition & DCHC gear!

"A big thanks for beingsuch a great team worker

with me on SunshineGardens & helping with

rounds!"-Susan Christianson

~Carmen, CNA~

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Brittany McBride~Housekeeping~

"I would like to recognizeBrittany McBride an

agency staff person inhousekeeping. She was

working on aneighborhood and noticed

that a resident wasstruggling to paint her

own nails. Brittany helpedthis resident finish

painting her nails. Thisreally helped this

resident's anxiety that dayand she was so proud of

how her nails looked. Thank you Brittany for

putting our residents first!"-Sabra Mackey

To recognize staff please fillout a Kudos sheet & put inKudos box located on the

lobby level across from theWellness Board. OR email

your Kudos tomolly.motsinger@douglascou

nty-ne.gov

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"Thank you to theCURE Committee for

doing such a great job withEmployee Week!"

-Erin Nelson

~CURE Committee~

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"Everything Wellness"DCHC Healthy Directions

Questions? Please contact: molly.motsinger@douglascounty-ne.gov

This month's Wellness Challenge willbe the "30 Day Stress Cleanse"

The calendar below has 30 different activities to completethroughout the month of JulyPick up a copy of your calendar today on one of the twoWellness Bulletin Boards or via the Wellness ChallengeemailComplete 20 of the 30 challenge itemsKeep track as you go along! Mark the items you havecompletedTurn in your completed calendar to Molly Motsinger byAugust 5th & enter to win a catered lunch!

EMPLOYEE WEEK

C U R E C O M M I T T E E

Crazy Sock

Day

Hot Dog Lunch

Day

Grill Out Day Snow Cones

Ice Cream

Social

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July Work Anniversaries

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Jacqueline Bair- 22 yearsLisa Bellavia- Baker- 3 years

Tammy Billups- 4 years Breanna Boswell- 2 years

Angelika Bull- 2 years John Burnett- 2 years

Juana Castro Alberto- 5 years Cecilia Castro- 5 years 

Tam Chau- 7 years San Cha Cho- 12 years Fulton Curry- 5 years

Wesley Dickey- 12 years Chelsea Frazier- 3 years

Maria Galvan- 2 years Jessica Gibson- 12 years

Twilla Hancock- 19 years Sara Hargis- 8 years Lorna Hiatt- 5 years

Edward Hodges- 1 yearWilliam Hudson- 38 years

Marlo Ibarra- 18 years Riley Jackson- 18 years

Lucy Kaburu- 3 years Marvale Kellogg- 2 years Christy Lenihan- 12 years

Chad Lewis- 8 years Shelley Lidolph- 10 years

Elizabeth Lopez- 1 yearSagal Mohamud- 3 years Molly Motsinger- 1 year

James O'Donnell- 45 years Grace Ogba- 19 years

Jude Okparaejesi- 1 year Terry Rhye- 14 years

Noemi Robledo- 2 years Blake Rosseter- 1 year

Jennifer Russell- 3 years Caroline Sanders- 37 years

Barbra Seefus- 13 years Dinise Smith- 5 years Diego Vasquez- 1 year Keith Wells- 21 years

Denise Williams- 15 years

Thank you for

your 18 years of

hard work at

DCHC!

Staff member spotlight started June 2019, which highlightsindividuals during their work anniversary!

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Position here at the health center? Certified Coding SpecialistHow many years have you worked here? 18 years

What are your favorite parts of the job? I really enjoy the detective portion of coding, my co-workers in Medical Records, and talking to the residents.

What are your favorite aspects of working at the health center? The diversity of employees andpatients. I love the fact that on any given day you can walk through and hear multiple languages

being spoken and the range of countries represented here is astounding! Do you have any special memories during your time here at the health center? When I first started

I thought for months that one of our patients (who has passed) Dan Kammerer was an employee.He gave me a tour, clued me in on the current events (gossip) etc. I had no clue until maybe 3-4

months later that he was a resident.

Do you have any children? If so, how many children and age? 1 son Josef who is 28 and 2 grandchildren Izabella 8 and Deuce 6

Do you have any pets? WE have 2 Black Labs named Cha-Cha and Simon, a Cockatiel namedLoco and Bailey a gerbil

Do you have any hobbies? I love reading, watching soccer, spending time with my husband andgrandchildren and believe it or not I am an avid Fortnite player :-)

Where are the places you have traveled? Mexico Anything you’d like to share? I gave my hubby a kidney 12 years ago in March and he is still going

strong.

Staff MemberSpotlight!Marlo Ilbarra

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Meet the Board of Directors of theDouglas County Health Center

Foundation

Beth Furlong, PhD, JD, RN is an Associate Professor Emerita and an Adjunct Faculty in herretirement years at Creighton University; she teaches in the graduate online program in Health

Care Ethics.  Her experiences, knowledge and passions are in public health nursing, healthpolicy and social justice. She is an advocate for populations made vulnerable. These interestsintegrate with her serving on the DCHC Foundation Board.  During 2011-2012 she served on

three appointed health policy task forces of the Douglas County Commissioners. On one ofthese she ‘had voice’ and advocacy relative the continuation of the DCHC.

Her professional public health nursing interests were forged in 1966-1968 when she was a

Peace Corps Volunteer in small towns and villages in then named Mysore State in South India. She taught 43 years at Creighton University in the School of Nursing and the Center for Health

Policy and Ethics teaching public health nursing, health policy and ethics. Her global interestcontinued with receipt of two Fulbright Fellowships to Jordan and Hungary, a service trip to

the Dominican Republic, nursing education consultation in Armenia, teaching ethics with healthproviders in the Republic of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Lithuania at the request of the OpenSociety Foundation and the Albert Schweitzer Institute, two immersion trips to the Tribal

States of Northeast India, etc.  She has and is serving on several organizational Boards at thecity, state and national levels that integrate with her above three passions. She is active civically

and politically.

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Elizabeth Furlong, Director, DCHC Foundation

The mission of Douglas County Health Center Foundation is to provide funds and in-kind servicesto enhance the quality of life for Douglas County Health Center long-term care residents and to

support employee educational opportunities.

TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE

Trauma-informed care is not a therapy, intervention, orspecific action. It is an approach to engaging people with

histories of trauma that recognizes the presence oftrauma symptoms and acknowledges the role that

trauma has played in their lives. Trauma is extreme stressthat overwhelms a person's ability to cope. It can be anevent, a series of events, or set of circumstances that

harms a person's physical or emotional well-being.

The Four "R"s of Trauma-Informed Care

THERE ARE FOUR ELEMENTS OF A TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH.

REALIZING THE PREVALENCE OF TRAUMARECOGNIZING HOW TRAUMA AFFECTS INDIVIDUALS

RESPONDING BY PUTTING THIS KNOWLEDGE INTO PRACTICERESISTING RETRAUMATIZATION

"BE A TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE CHAMPION”

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EXPAND Your Knowledge & Skills

STAY CONNECTED

Emergency: 7799Administration: 3946

Admissions: 6064Central Supply: 7372

Clinic, PHC: 6396Compliance: 7324Computer Service/ Help Desk: 3663

Dietary: 7382Employee Health: 7823

Housekeeping:7386Laundry: 7368

Nursing Office: 7313Personnel: 7318

Rec Therapy: 7413Security Desk: 7463

Staff Dev: 7444

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MediTech Go Live - July 1st

Trauma Informed Care Project Harmony- July 2nd

Trauma Informed Care

Kim Foundation- July 17th

General HospiceHillcrest Hospice- July 25th

Code Silver

Lt. Shawn Millikan DC Sheriff's Office (Code Silver is August 1st)

In-Services for July

Please continue to check outsidethe Staff Development office for

Education opportunities. If you arelooking for something specific, let

us know, we can help you findmaterials.

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