Caregiver Experience Best Practices: CI Supports it Mission Integration Facilitators

IS Caregiver Experience Committee highlights some great work being done by Washington & Montana region Clinical Informatics (CI) to support both the delivery of the Mission Integration Program within their team, as well as the caregivers who have stepped up to facilitate it.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about what WA/MT CI did to have such successful engagement around Mission Integration and what other teams might learn and apply.

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Oregon RESO’s Kerry Bartel-Christensen on Impact of Housing on Health – Dec. 10

At Providence, we believe safe, secure housing is essential to health and well-being. On Thursday, December 10, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. (PT), Oregon RESO VP, Kerrie Bartel-Christensen, will chat online with Tim Zarincznj, exec. director of Providence Supportive Housing, in a Facebook and LinkedIn Live conversation promoted by Providence.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn how to tune in to Kerrie’s conversation and more about what Providence is doing to address housing needs in our communities.

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Project Online for IS PMs Coming Jan. 3

Microsoft Project Online will replace ServiceNow for IS project management, resource management and timekeeping, starting January 3, 2021. The Project Online team, steered by the Project Management Center of Excellence, will be preparing the production environment during the month of December, so the next four weeks can be preparation time for the transition.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about what you can do to get ready.

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SoCal RESO Environmental Services Caregivers Receive Values in Action Honors

Congratulations to Donnie Smith, Manager, Environmental Services & Laundry, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, and Cheryl Montgomery, Environmental Services Technician, Providence Tarzana Medical Center. Both received our highest system honor for living our Providence Values in their hard work. All of Environmental Services has truly shined in their critical roles keeping our facilities sanitary during the pandemic.

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about Donnie and Cheryl’s incredible contributions.

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Hackathon Success

The 2020 virtual Hackathon we told you about this summer was a great success. Organized by the Providence Digital Innovation Group (DIG), for the first time, this year’s September 15-21 event had participants from within IS and our Providence Global Center (PGC).

> Click into the article headline or graphic to learn more about the Hackathon, including a video featuring B.J. and Sister Susanne.

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Dec. 1 IS & RESO Open Forum and Answers from our Execs to Your Submitted Questions

Thank you to the over 1,800 IS & RESO caregivers who joined us a week ago Tuesday, Dec. 1, for Open Forum. We shared what we could about COVID-19 vaccine progress, initial Caregiver Experience Survey 2020 results, an overview of our two new, main IS SharePoint portals, as well as updates on cybersecurity and Modern Workplace.

> Click into the article headline or graphic for instructions how to view the recording, our executives answers to questions submitted over the Teams live event Q&A, as well as the slides.

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Bright Spots Amid Uncertainty

As always, I enjoyed being on the IS & RESO Open Forum this past Monday morning with so many of you – we had over 1,800 join. 

As I said on the call, whatever side of the political spectrum you are on, we did have some great victories at the ballot box that supported our vision of Health for a Better World. If you haven’t seen it, I encourage you to review Rod Hochman’s memo about these positive examples of our advocacy efforts paying off.

> Click the article headline or graphic to read the rest of B.J.’s note.

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