It’s important to know that Code You accounts do not carry over to the new Inspire Wellbeing platform. To participate in Inspire Wellbeing, you will need to complete a simple, one-time registration. Associates: Register through MyVirtualWorkplace Covered spouses: Register at wellbeing.centura.org

Our mission is whole person care. We are connected in this common purpose, and we know caring for the whole health of our incredible caregivers is just as important as caring for our patients and communities. That’s why we’re launching an all-new associate wellbeing program: Inspire Wellbeing.

In this new program, just like in Code You, associates and their covered spouses will complete wellbeing activities to earn points toward health insurance premium reductions, or a cash reward for associates not on a Centura medical plan. The points structure hasn’t changed, and the way you earn points will remain the same – by completing a health assessment, annual wellness visit, tobacco attestation and completing wellbeing activities.

However, Inspire Wellbeing features an all-new wellbeing platform that’s even more flexible and customizable to fit the needs of your full life, and with even more options for earning points – like volunteering in your community, running a 5K, participating in group challenges, and so much more! No matter where you are on your wellbeing journey, this new program is designed to offer the vital support you need to amplify all the things that inspire your wholeness.

Please note, associates (and their covered spouses, as applicable) need to register for the new platform in order to participate in Inspire Wellbeing and earn their wellness rewards. Register today to explore the resources available to support your health and wholeness and begin earning wellness rewards!

• Associates: Register through MyVirtualWorkplace
• Covered spouses: Register at wellbeing.centura.org

As we continue working to optimize Kronos Workforce Dimensions (WFD) for our people, each week brings greater understanding, more questions and more experience with the new timekeeping system and how its capabilities can deliver greater value. We are leveraging this, along with your vital feedback, in a concerted effort to provide additional education and continue making adjustments to the system to better fit your needs. Current areas of focus include scheduling, reporting, timecard updating and management, and overall employee time management.

Key reminders:

• Beginning Aug. 23, non-exempt (hourly) associates have the ability to do on call, call back and low census with and without PTO entry at the clock.
• We recently enabled the ability for exempt (salaried) associates to edit their own timecards, including adding or updating PTO and entering transfers. This change eliminates the need for the manager or timekeeper to enter that information. It also reduces the number of notifications you will receive because PTO will not need to be approved through the system. PTO will still be viewable by the manager.

Centura Health is dedicated to becoming the system of choice in Colorado and western Kansas, and we want to support our caregivers on their growth and development journey. As part of our HR Transformation, a new process for tuition reimbursement is effective, as of July 1.

Here’s what you need to know:  
All tuition reimbursement requests, pre-approvals and inquiries must be submitted through the Self Service Hub. Below are links that provide direct access to the tuition reimbursement page in the Self Service Hub, the Quick Guides containing step-by-step instructions for both pre-approval requests and tuition reimbursement requests, and the tuition reimbursement policy. 
 

• Self Service Hub-Tuition Reimbursement
• How to Submit a Pre-Approval Request
• How to Submit a Tuition Reimbursement Request
• Tuition Reimbursement Policy

The Centura Health Foundations have partnered with Walden University for a new scholarship opportunity available to all Centura Health associates. Walden University has generously donated 30, $15,000 scholarships to Centura Health associates who enroll in a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral program and begin classes on or before December 31, 2020 at Walden University. For scholars whose degree program exceeds $15,000, your local Centura Health hospital foundation will provide a 50% matching gift to each scholarship winner (not to exceed $7,500).

With more than 80-degree programs and more than 385 specializations and concentrations, Walden University can offer Centura Health associates a way to build highly transferable skills that can be immediately applied, as well as a pathway for greater career success. To qualify for a scholarship, the degree program you enroll in must meet the hiring needs of Centura Health. With only 30 scholarships available to Centura Health associates this will be a highly competitive application process.

This unique opportunity is powered by philanthropy and would not be possible without the generosity of Walden University and our community of donors, including many associate donors. 

To learn more about this incredible opportunity please join us for a virtual Q & A on Monday, August 31 at 10 am MDT. You can register for it by clicking, here.

You can also visit WaldenU.edu/CenturaHealth-Scholars to learn how to apply, eligibility and requirements, and important deadlines. 

Health Care Workers – Superheroes 
 

“Where do we go when we sleep? A third of our life is lived underground, and deep down inside us a stream that will rise now and then to the surface, trailing visions into our waking. Yet what if that stream had been watering us all the days of our life and we never knew it? Perhaps there is a life within life, a blessedness that pours through our days and years and we barely suspect it … There is another life …  and it is here, just below our skin and our eyelids.

“We spend most of our days immersed in the stories we take to be the stuff of our lives. Tale after tale of gain and loss consumes our attention for decades, often a lifetime. And then all of a sudden it is over.”

Is there a life within life as poet Roger Housden implies? Is there a Self within the self we know ourselves to be? Is there a deeper dimension to our existence that we encounter when we sink beneath consciousness, and that sometimes surfaces in our dreams? It has always struck me as strange that we humans who pride ourselves for being rational, thinking beings, need to spend so much of our lives asleep. What’s with that? Is it just a physical necessity, or might it also have to do with the importance of being in touch with “a blessedness that pours through our days and years?”

It is true that in our conscious state, we are mostly inclined to immersion in “tale after tale of gain and loss.” The practicality of day-to-day existence – our physical, emotional and relational ups and downs – have the power to consume our attention and prevent us from sensing that a “stream … had been watering us all the days of our life.” In his song The River of Dreams, Billy Joel sings about searching for something sacred he’d lost. When we lose touch with the “life within life,” the presence of the divine at the core of our being, we are disconnected from our sacred source, our true identity, our spiritual essence.

Whether we remember our dreams or not, when we sleep we descend into the stream “just below our skin and eyelids.” When we sleep we become wet with the water of life, we become soaked with the spirit that enlivens not only our body, but our soul, we become baptized, born again into an awareness of who we truly are, and that life is about more than the “gain and loss that consumes our attention for decades, often a lifetime.”

Too often our sleep is restless with the worries of the day. Perhaps it would be otherwise if we gave those worries to a Higher/Inner Power by whatever name, and gave ourselves permission to dive into the river of dreams, the water of life, the sacred stream that lies beneath the surface of our self.
                                                    
Tom Stella, NCC
Corporate Chaplain
tomstella37@gmail.com