Did you know that financial security is an important part of your overall well-being? Centura Health offers many financial benefits to our incredible people, including a retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement and voluntary benefits to provide additional financial security. Review your Annual Benefits and Well-Being Guide arriving in the mail soon for more information!

We know that to be our best, we must take care of our emotional, spiritual and physical well-being. Centura Health is committed to your whole health and offers a wide range of benefits to help you live your mission and be the best version of yourself.

Participate in wellness programs and earn rewards through Inspire Wellbeing
Our wellness program, Inspire Wellbeing, is designed to support and inspire your goals and help you build healthy practices. Through Inspire Wellbeing, associates and covered spouses can access a variety of wellness programs, including personal and group challenges, video learning courses and healthy eating tips. Associates and their covered spouses can complete wellbeing activities to earn points toward health insurance premium reductions, or a cash reward for associates not on a Centura medical plan.
Learn more and start accessing resources by visiting wellbeing.centura.org.

Manage stress through meQuilibrium
This stress management app is designed to help you discover simple techniques to build your resilience and shift your response to stressful thoughts and situations. meQuilibrium is HIPAA compliant and all information is confidential. Associates and covered spouses may enroll at getmeq.com/Centura to get started today. Complete the stress assessment and immediately gain insights and tools to help you manage the stresses in your life.

Get support through our Employee Assistance Program
The Profile Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers confidential counseling services at no cost to you. The licensed counselors can help with issues such as relationships, divorce, depression, stress management and any other personal or professional issues. Click here to learn more about EAP.

Use your UnitedHealthcare benefits to access care
Associates and covered dependents on a Centura Health medical plan have access to behavioral care through UnitedHealthcare. Review your Annual Benefits and Well-Being Guide mailed to your home to view the coverage offered for your selected plan and see an overview of this coverage below:

Summary of Covered Benefits	Centura Value Plan	HRA Plan	HSA Plan
Mental Health and Substance Abuse	Outpatient: $20 copay; Other services: $0	20%	20% after deductible.

Find a licensed counselor or substance abuse program and access therapy tools through UnitedHealthcare’s Live and Work Well site
The Live and Work Well program is available to associates and their covered dependents who participate in a Centura Health medical plan. Through the dedicated member portal, you may connect with hundreds of resources and cognitive behavioral therapy tools. Visit liveandworkwell.com and use company code Centura to get started.

Take action between May 3 and noon MT on May 21! Benefits Open Enrollment is coming soon! Be sure to take action if: You need to complete a spousal verification (annual election is required); You want to participate in a flexible spending account (annual election is required); You are enrolling for the first time; or You need to change your current elections (plan, level of coverage or covered dependents).

Questions?
Our benefit representatives are ready to help you make informed decisions. Click here to schedule a one-on-one benefit consultation. You may also contact the People Resource Center at 888.622.1111, option 1 or email PeopleResourceCenter@centura.org.

Time is running out – the Inspire Wellbeing earnings deadline is this Friday, April 30.

Inspire Wellbeing is our all-new associate wellbeing program that’s designed to offer the vital support you need to amplify all the things that inspire your wholeness. In this new program, just like in Code You, associates and their covered spouses complete wellbeing activities to earn points toward health insurance premium reductions, or a cash reward for associates not on a Centura medical plan.

There’s still time, but don’t delay! If you haven’t yet earned your full reward, check out these quick ways to earn points now.

For associates and covered spouses on a Centura Health medical plan: Complete your wellbeing survey (100 health points) Complete your tobacco status attestation (400 health points) For everyone: Brave Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion (100 program points**) You – Whole and Healthy Program of Your Choice (100 program points**) Watch a recorded Profile EAP Webinar (50 points each, may complete two for a total of 100 program points**)

It only takes a few simple steps to earn your points, but the deadline will be here before you know it. Register or log in today to earn points toward your incentive and make sure you don’t miss out on these valuable rewards.

Associates on a Centura Health medical plan: Start earning in five easy steps!
Earn 1,000 points by April 30 to earn the full $1,000 health premium reduction! It’s easy to get started earning:

In an exclusive partnership with the Centura Health foundations, Walden University has generously donated 30 scholarships valued at $15,000 each to Centura Health associates who enroll in a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral program and begin classes between June 1 and Sept. 27, 2021. Additionally, Centura Health and the foundations are offering a potential match of up to 50% of Walden’s gift, bringing the possible total scholarship award amounts up to $22,500, depending on the cost of the degree program.

APPLY TODAY! The scholarship application period closes this Friday, April 30, 2021. If you are interested in applying for the Walden Scholarship, please click here.

With only 30 scholarships available, the application process will be competitive, and a scholarship is not guaranteed to all applicants. This scholarship is limited to new Walden students. Awards and amounts will be determined by a diverse selection committee comprising Centura Health leadership, board members, foundation representatives and Walden University.

About Walden University

On a mission for social change, Walden University is a B corporation that meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance. With more than 80 degree programs and more than 385 specializations and concentrations, the school offers Centura Health associates a way to build highly transferable skills that can be immediately applied to your current role, as well as provide a pathway for greater career success. To qualify for a scholarship, your selected degree program must meet the hiring needs of Centura Health.

Supported by philanthropy, this unique opportunity would not be possible without the generosity of Walden University, Centura Health and our community of foundation donors who include some of our own incredible caregivers.

By removing the heavy financial burden of higher education, we hope this generous program, designed specifically for our incredible people, will help you live your mission, achieve your career aspirations and build flourishing communities.

“I felt it was a great opportunity to earn the credential for a leadership position while working in a clinical position,” Luke Angel, manager of rehabilitation at Mercy Regional Medical Center, shared. “I can complete coursework around my work and life schedule. If I am extremely busy one week, I can adjust my study schedule to accommodate, then just pick a weekend to get caught up.”

Centura Health is fueled by our incredible caregivers. Recently one of our incredible people, Littleton Adventist Hospital Director of Safety and Security Rick Boyer, was surprised with a statewide honor. Rick is the recipient of the 2020 Public/Private Partnership Award from the Colorado Emergency Management Association (CEMA).

The award was established to recognize the collaborative local efforts between a public authority and a private sector entity. The award is one of four presented by CEMA each year through a competitive nomination process across the state. Rick was nominated by the Arapahoe Office of Emergency Management and the Tri-County Health Department. He continues to collaborate with these and other public agencies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rick said he was a bit overwhelmed when Nathan Fogg, Arapahoe County’s Emergency Management Director, presented him with the trophy.

“I feel honored to receive this award, but I also feel a renewed motivation to not only maintain, but strengthen these relationships with our local emergency management partners,” Rick said.

“As Emergency Managers profess often, disasters (even global public health crises) ultimately end up being responded to, and managed at, a very local level, and I feel we are blessed to have such great partners, like Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department and Tri County Health Department, who are constantly and consistently ‘at the ready’ to assist the communities that we serve.”

Rick helps support Safety, Security, and Emergency Management at Porter, Littleton, Parker, and Castle Rock Adventist Hospitals but is based at, and primarily serves Littleton, where he has worked the past 14 years.

Please join us in recognizing Rick for this outstanding recognition!

On Tuesday, April 27, Information Technology (IT) is expanding its support and service capabilities for all Epic and Dragon users by launching a dedicated Clinical Service Desk (CSD). The CSD will be available 24/7 to provide basic troubleshooting or answer questions such as “how to,” “where to find” or “how do I complete this task.”  

Having access to a support technician who can quickly resolve a wide-variety of Epic and Dragon topics is critical to efficient patient care. A CSD technician is a phone call away, and can assist with education, simple troubleshooting, or escalation to other technical support teams if needed.

Following are examples of how the CSD can be used:

• Help with placing orders, writing notes or completing medication reconciliation.
• Assistance with lab specimen collection process, nursing flowsheets or LDA documentation, medication administration or worklist tasks preferences.
• Personalization/customization of your Epic views.
• Dragon navigation, templates and troubleshooting.
• Escalation of work stoppage/patient safety critical issues and reporting to technical support teams.

• Ext. 67-4212 (for physicians)
• Ext. 67-4200 (for all other clinicians)

On Thursday, April 29, at 11:30 p.m. (2300 MT), Information Technology (IT) will push the Horizon Client app to all Centura Health computers, with the exception of Information Technology (IT), Longmont United Hospital, Porter Adventist Hospital and St. Anthony Hospital, who previously received the application.

As part of both the Horizon replacement of Citrix and the Workspace ONE implementations, your computer will require the Horizon Client App to properly connect to virtual resources. The Horizon app is the VMware version of the Citrix Receiver. The Citrix Receiver will not be removed during this process and you may continue to work as you normally would.

Beginning at 11:30 p.m. (2300 MT) Thursday, April 29, the Horizon Client app will be deployed to your computer. If you are connected to the Centura Health network, the installation will begin right away. If you are remote, the next time your computer is connected to the Centura Health network, the installation will begin.

Note: You are not expected to be connected to the Centura network at the time of the deployment and you do not need to take steps to accommodate.

A soft restart will be required after installation. A prompt will display to restart your computer, along with the options to restart now or snooze and remind me again in 1 hour (you have the option to select up to 4 hours as needed).

If you require software that is not currently available in the Self Service Hub Software Catalog, you may now submit a Request New Software Review request.  

Submitting a Request New Software Review request will begin the Information Technology (IT) review process to determine the business need, dependencies and support. We will also assess if an existing software is available that will support your needs.

To get started, access the Self Service Hub , search for Request New Software Review, then complete and submit your request. If necessary, someone from IT will reach out  for additional information. The approval process takes approximately 2 to 3 weeks.

Don’t get caught off guard! Prepare for our new SharePoint and Microsoft Teams expiration policy that will be implemented this month.

Why is this being done?
Currently Centura does not have an expiration policy for Microsoft Online SharePoint Sites or Microsoft Teams Sites.* As a result, many document repositories exist that are no longer being used, taking up storage and adding risk of sensitive information being unnecessarily discoverable.  

Information Technology (IT) has partnered with Corporate Responsibility to identify an expiration policy for Microsoft SharePoint Online and Teams sites that will go into effect on April 30, 2021.  

*If you are not familiar with Microsoft Teams, it is a communication and collaboration tool with document storage and sharing capabilities, provided by SharePoint. It will also replace Skype for Business instant messaging. It was piloted in IT and will be rolled out to the rest of the organization throughout April. For more information, review the MS Teams End User Guide.

What is in the new expiration policy?
After April 30, 2021, all SharePoint Sites and Microsoft Teams sites will need to be “renewed” on an annual basis. The “clock” for annual renewal will “start” on April 30, so the first potential expiration date would be April 29, 2022.
There are two mechanisms for annual renewal:

1. Manual renewal
   • At 30 days, 14 days and 7 days before expiration, ALL site owners will receive an email notification alerting them of the pending expiration. The email contains a link to manually extend the group lifetime by 1 year.
   • On the expiration date, site owners will receive a final email alerting them that the group has expired but is still recoverable for 30 days. The email contains a link to manually extend the site lifetime by 1 year.
2. Automatic renewal based on activity
   • During the 35 days prior to expiration, any activity on the site’s contents (mailbox, documents, or the site itself) will trigger an automatic renewal of the site. This will push out the expiration date of the group to 1 year from this activity date.

• If you are a site owner, regularly checking your Centura email for expiration notifications for your site and responding to the site renewal requests in a timely manner.
• If you own or regularly use a site, ensure that there are at least two owners listed.