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July 2010 | Issue 159

Opportunity is knocking...Have you answered the Employee Satisfaction Survey yet?

For the last two weeks, an opportunity to let your voice be heard has been knocking on the door. Have you answered it? So far, 61 percent of employees have but there is still work to reach our goal of 80 percent participation.

By dedicating only 20 minutes of your time to complete the Employee Satisfaction Survey, you are doing your part to help Cook Children’s reach its potential of providing the highest quality of patient- and family-centered care. It begins with each of you.

Here are the participation percentages by company:

Health Foundation – 100 percent Health Care System – 87 percent Home Health – 82 percent Health Plan – 64 percent Medical Center – 57 percent Physician Network – 55 percent

Within these overall numbers are individual departments that have truly stepped up and here is a look at some of these stellar examples of participation.

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Remember, this survey will be used to fulfill our Magnet survey requirement so we need strong participation amongst our Medical

Center nursing staff.

• CCPN Primary Care: Lake Worth – 100 percent

• CCPN Primary Care: South Denton – 94 percent

• CCPN Primary Care: Keller – 94 percent

• CCPN Primary Care: Mansfield – 83 percent

• Medical Center: Admitting/Registration – 100 percent

• Medical Center: Pastoral Care – 100 percent

• Medical Center: Engineering – 100 percent

• Medical Center: Psychiatric Services – 100 percent

• Medical Center: 5 Pavilion – 80 percent• Home Health: Billing – 100 percent• Home Health: Patient Services –

100 percent• Health Care System: Internal

Audit/Compliance – 100 percent• Health Care System: Education –

91 percent

Cook Children’s is bringing ‘fall’ to you a few months early this year. The ‘Fall’ Festival 2010 that is.

Join us in the Atrium on July 21 from 8 a.m. to noon for this fun educational event that supports Cook Children’s efforts to reduce slips, trips and falls.

Along with free snacks and a new shoe giveaway, booths will be set up to educate those who stop by. These booths will include information on slips/trips/falls, slip-resistant shoe-

mobile, Sigvaris pressure socks and spill pad demonstration.

Be sure to bring your old retractable badge holders to exchange it for a new one at the festival.

It’s almost time to enroll for your benefits again! Open enrollment will be held from Monday, August 2 through Tuesday, August 31 but information sessions begin next week.

All Cook Children’s employees are encouraged to attend one of the following “Open Enrollment Meetings” to learn more about upcoming benefit changes. The meetings will explain the employee

benefits being offered for the 2010-2011 plan year.

Employees unable to attend one of these meetings will have the opportunity to view the presentation through a link on CookNet (available by July 29) or can request a DVD of the presentation from Human Resources.

Once again, this year’s open enrollment period is Monday, August 2 through Tuesday, August 31 and all benefits eligible employees are required to complete the enrollment process. Employees who fail to enroll during the open enrollment period will have no benefits after Thursday, September 30.

Information regarding the benefits being offered, the steps to enroll, and a summary of changes can be found on CookNet under “Announcements” beginning the week of July 26. Please watch for “IMPORTANT”

emails containing more details about the upcoming enrollment.The annual Benefits Fair will take place on July 28 at South Hills, and July 29 and 30 in the Atrium

featuring representatives from all of our insurance carriers who will be available to answer questions.

2010-2011 Open enrollment meetings start next week

A ‘fall’ festival in July

Please join us in supporting this year’s American Heart Association’s Heart Walk scheduled for Saturday, September 11 in Sundance Square.

Last year, Cook Children’s participation included 41 Heart Walk Team Captains who recruited 268 walkers. We raised more than $27,000 for the American Heart Association, placing Cook Children’s in 8th place for Tarrant Country companies who participated in the Heart Walk.

To get everyone excited about the Heart Walk, we are once again having a Heart Walk T-shirt design contest. The final artwork chosen will be featured on the t-shirts worn by our Cook Children’s team at the Heart Walk. Please submit your heart walk t-shirt design, as follows:

• Submit the original artwork (in person, via email or inter-office to Barbara Flores–CCMC Administration. If you are submitting your artwork via email, it should be in either Adobe Illustrator or jpeg. Adobe Illustrator is preferred.

• The artwork should include no more than three colors (black is considered a color).• Deadline for submission of artwork is Monday, July 26.Online employee voting to choose the final t-shirt artwork design will be held beginning on Tuesday,

July 27 and the chosen design will be announced on Monday, August 2. This year, we’re going with a “High 5” theme…we’d like to recruit 50 team captains and 500 walkers

to raise $50,000! If you’ve not yet signed up to be a team captain or haven’t joined a team, there’s still time to join us and we need you.

Please email Barbara Flores at Barbara.flores@cookchildrens.org with your name so that we can provide you with updates about the walk.

Calling all artists with heart!

With the Meditech 5.64 upgrade, there will undoubtedly be questions. A team of IS analysts are only a phone call or email away to help. Each of these analysts has assigned areas of expertise to help as you begin using the test version of Meditech 5.64 that is linked under “i want to...” on CookNet.

Who ya gonna call...with your Meditech upgrade questions?

Bruce Hall (682-885-2382 - bruce.hall@cookchildrens.org): Module ORMCraig LeBeau (682-885-1626 - craig.lebeau@cookchildrens.org): Modules ARM, BAR, DR, MIG, MPM-LSS, NPR, PBR, PP, PWMDeirdre Garrett (682-885-6771 - deirdre.garrett@cookchildrens.org): Modules BBK, EDM, LAB, MIC, OMAR, PHA, PTH, RXMJudy Guidry (682-885-7897 - judy.guidry@cookchildrens.org): Modules ABS, ITS/RAD, MIS/UNV, MRIKally Chau (682-885-1071 - kally.chau@cookchildrens.org): Modules ADM, AP, BF/ESS, CA, FA, GL, MMMichael Meiser (682-885-2371 - michael.meiser@cookchildrens.org): Modules SCH, STSToni Robinette (682-885-7128 - toni.robinette@cookchildrens.org): Modules EMR/EMRT, OE, PCM, PCS, POM, PtCT-BAR

So if you have any questions, contact the analyst listed above for the module you need help with.

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