We are committed to supporting you and ensuring Kronos Workforce Dimensions (WFD) provides a top-notch user experience for our people. Several new capabilities are now available to create efficiencies for managers and timekeepers, and associates will soon have the ability to enter job code transfers at the clock.

Job code transfers
On November 30, job code transfers will return to the clock for non-exempt (hourly) associates. This capability will save managers/timekeepers time and allow associates to enter job code transfers for themselves. Key steps to understand:

• A new button has been added to enter job code transfers.
• Associates will need to enter the job code number.
• Managers/timekeepers will need to verify the job codes are correct as part of wrapping up the pay period.

Click here to view site-specific and enterprise data about our transfusion practices.

As part of our shared efforts to achieve zero preventable harm, Centura’s laboratory team is working to eliminate harm by educating caregivers on best practices for blood transfusions, including minimizing transfusions and adhering to lower laboratory thresholds. These best practices, also known as restrictive transfusion practice, improve patient outcomes, including reduced morbidity and mortality and shorter lengths of stay. 

Adopting a restrictive transfusion practice is part of our journey to become a High Reliability Organization. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines all transfusion reactions, even the relatively common mild allergic type, as Patient Safety indicators (PSI). Additionally, per Leapfrog and National Quality Forum standards, hospitals should have zero fatalities from transfusions, which are considered Never Events.

Although any individual transfusion cannot be deemed appropriate or inappropriate by laboratory value alone, benchmarks are used to assess our performance. Data on Centura’s transfusion practices was benchmarked against both CommonSpirit Health data as well as peer reviewed publications, and the analysis revealed significant opportunity within Centura to reduce unnecessary transfusions.

 

Posters promoting blood stewardship and restrictive transfusion practices will be placed in key locations around your facility. If you would like more posters, they are available for order in CHIP under item numbers CHPS-034, CHPS-035 and CHPS-036.

To encourage restrictive transfusion practices across our enterprise, a campaign to promote blood stewardship will launch in November. This campaign will provide education on the opportunity to improve outcomes, lower risks and reduce costs through better management of blood products.

As part of this campaign, each entity will receive a quarterly report card providing an overview of their current transfusion practices as compared to other Centura hospitals and our established benchmarks. Additionally, each hospitalist will receive a provider report card with similar information regarding their own individual transfusion practices*. The first entity and provider report cards will distribute in mid-November, and the lowest-performing providers will be supported with individualized feedback and ongoing communication with laboratory and clinical leadership.  

Updates in Epic will also support these efforts, including:

• A new Order Set for Anemia that provides quick access to anemia management orders.
• Transfusion Order Set Changes that are restructured to discourage ordering more than one unit of blood at a time.
• RBC Best Practice Alert (BPA) changes that include removal of the indication “Hemoglobin 7-10 with disease that could cause tissue hypoxia” and addition of best practice indication “Hemoglobin <8 with symptomatic anemia (i.e. dyspnea or syncope).

If you have not yet submitted your feedback, please do so by November 25. The survey requires less than 5 minutes of your valuable time! You are the heartbeat of our organization and your feedback will help us better provide experiences that nurture, inspire and motivate you and your colleagues.
If you haven’t seen the email from Glint:

• Look for an email from GLINT sent to you early on November 11
• Look in your spam or junk folder to make sure it didn't end up there;
• Check your deleted items folder;
• Watch for periodic reminder emails from survey@glintinc.com;
• Scan a QR code on one of the posters:
  • Enter the following attributes to log in to the survey:
    • Your Centura email
    • your date of birth in this format:  YYYY/MM/DD

Telespine helped me out so much!  I would recommend this program to everyone! Coach Marinne is excellent and motivating in helping achieve your spine health. The videos are short and concise, and I have incorporated several exercises and stretches to my daily routine and my back feels much better! Thank you for your help in helping me feel better, and in such a short amount of time too!   – Jackie L., Centura associate

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’ve launched an all-new associate wellbeing program, Inspire Wellbeing, which offers exciting a wide range of options to support your whole health.

If your wellbeing goals include conquering back or neck pain, consider joining Telespine. This simple and effective approach to conquering back and neck pain is available to Centura Health medical plan members (including your covered spouse) at no cost.

Telespine takes the complexity, inconvenience and uncertainty out of recovering from pain. Through this program, you will be able to access immediate assistance through online health coaching with personalized guidance and helpful activities. Telespine is designed to get you get back to what matters, with less pain, and feeling stronger and more resilient than ever.

You can also earn 200 Inspire Wellbeing Program Points when you 1) enroll, 2) take the Healthy Back Assessment and 3) complete one coaching session by March 31, 2021. (Please allow up to 10 business days for points to be reflected in your account after the completion of these three steps.)

Click here to join now through your Inspire Wellbeing account!

Questions?
Contact the wellbeing customer service team at 888.282.0822 or info@navigatewell.com.

A required downtime for the Midas Care Management Application will take place from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17 (1300 to 1800 MT) while Centura Health Information Technology upgrades the application to the newest version. Please follow downtime procedures during this planned downtime.

The following steps should be taken by affected users for each module:

• Midas RDE (End User Entry): During the downtime, the system will not be available to enter events. Wait for notification that the system is available and enter any safety events before leaving your shift. If the system is not operational at end of your shift, contact your manager for a paper form to document any safety events that occurred during the downtime. 
• Midas Care Management: All users that utilize Midas Care Management will wait to access the system until downtime is complete, no other actions required.
• Midas Focus Study: All users that utilize Midas Focus Study system will wait to access until the downtime is complete, no other actions required.

• Midas RDE
• Midas Care Management
• Midas Focus Study

Centura Health Information Technology (IT) will upgrade Microsoft Edge to Microsoft Edge Chromium at 5 p.m. (1700 MT) Thursday, Nov. 19.

This upgrade will happen automatically.  Please note, if you are actively using Microsoft Edge when the upgrade begins, your browser will automatically close. If this occurs, please relaunch Microsoft Edge.

Question?  

Please contact Marion Hase-McLellan or call the Service Center at 303.643.4200 and reference Change Number: C42402.
 

During October, Security Awareness Month, the Risk Management team emailed security awareness training to all associates each week on topics that support our ongoing efforts to protect and secure Centura Health’s patient data and network infrastructure. We want to extend our sincere thanks to all who participated in this fun training series.

All associates who completed all four weeks of training were entered into a drawing to win one of two grand prizes – a Yeti Flip 8 Cooler or a Cornhole set! 

Please join us in congratulating our grand prize winners:

• George B. Ross, II, Facilities Technician 
• Aimee Woolley-Randall, Director of Medical Staff Services

It is estimated that one in seven Coloradoans struggle with hunger. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused even more in our community to experience food insecurity and has increased the demand for charitable food assistance. 

As part of our “Season of Thankscaring” the corporate offices are asking associates to consider making a donation now through Nov. 30 to the Food Bank of the Rockies.

At this time, Food Bank of the Rockies is encouraging individuals to make cash donations as they do not have the means or manpower to properly sanitize food donations to the standards necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

For every dollar Food Bank of the Rockies receives four meals can be distributed! Think how many people you could feed by forgoing your daily cup of joe and donating the money instead. No donation is too small! Even a quarter can provide a meal to someone in need.

No one should have to worry about where their next meal will come from. Please join us and give hungry families the opportunity to thrive.
 

The corporate offices will again participate in Coats for Colorado as part of our “Season of Thankscaring”. As many of our incredible people are currently working from home, this year associates are asked to deliver their gently-used costs to any local Dependable Cleaners location through Nov. 30.  

Donated coats will be distributed to area nonprofit organizations. Dependable Cleaners will clean the coats prior to distribution.

We are proud to continue to support this event that has helped Coloradoans since 1981. Since its start, Coats for Colorado has collected, cleaned, and distributed over 2 million coats in the Denver metro area. 

Your kind donations help to provide warm winter coats at no cost to Coloradoans of all ages.