This year for Christmas, IS & RESO will join across regions on Wednesday, December 15, for two main holiday activity blocks, bookending a shortened Christmas Open Forum with B.J. Moore and our executive leadership. Invites went out last week from B.J. Moore’s calendar, so we hope to see you!
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IS & RESO EVP/CIO B.J. Moore was recently quoted by Becker’s in a round-up of health CIOs thoughts on the top challenges in healthcare IT and on a podcast focused on leveraging cloud to accelerate healthcare transformation. Providence chief people officer also gave the IS-developed OnboardMe tool great kudos in a Becker’s piece.
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IS & RESO executive leadership, B.J. Moore, Rick Stover, Adam Zoller, and Doug Lewis, plus Providence Chief People Officer Kellie Sheldon and extended IS leadership team members visited Hyderabad, India to meet with Providence Global Center (PGC) caregivers from their respective teams and to get to know them better. This was the first leadership team visit after the establishment of the PGC in February 2020.
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On December 8, 1856, our pioneering Sisters arrived in the Washington Territory, after venturing west from Montreal. That year, Sister Joseph called upon all of her gifts and skills, and her deep faith, as she led a group of four Sisters of Providence to the Washington Territory. Their mandate and desire was to care for the poor and the sick, to educate the children, and bring the light of Christ into the lives of all they met.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about those early days in the Northwest and to read a special reflection from Sister Joseph herself.
Vacancy rates continue to be very low in many of our regions, making it challenging for caregivers for find housing. Providence is at the forefront of this work, and our efforts will remove barriers and create a difference for recruitment and retention of caregivers.
> Click into the article headline or graphic for a look at some workforce housing projects underway in Oregon and Alaska.
With winter upon us, we are monitoring natural gas prices carefully, as they have been steadily increasing as demand increases and supply is lower than average. While we always strive for energy efficiency, increasing our awareness during this unique time will help us to mitigate the impact of rising costs, as well as harm to our environment.
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In this caregiver contribution by architectural standards design director Erin Couch, Erin shares her experience in October at Providence Portland Medical Center, volunteering as a patient sitter, a caregiver who stays with hospital patients who need monitoring and can’t be left alone, due to dementia or behavioral health issues.
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After months of thoughtful and focused work by a team of cross-functional caregivers and feedback from key stakeholders, an organizational model for Clinical Technology Services was socialized by Chris Briggs, GVP, IS Strategic Technology Enablement (STE), in mid-November. Since that period, hiring for the new senior leadership roles within the new model has been underway, with a strong pool of internal applicants for the seven regional leadership positions and the enterprise-shared capability leadership role.
> Click into the article headline or graphic to meet the enterprise and regional executive director team and learn more about the progress underway.
The IS Healthcare Intelligence (HI) BI Modernization team is developing Power BI Centralized Data Sets (CDS) for Epic EMR users to empower Providence data analytic consumers with standard, self-service reporting. The data sets coming this month will drive Power BI visualizations and pave the way toward modernizing our report portfolio, as we migrate away from our legacy reporting tools.
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This month, OneTeam shares new features in Outlook, Word, and Teams, as well as a fun way to test your Microsoft skills.
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