Be weather-aware!
A winter storm watch has been issued for our area for late New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Wintry mix is possible before changing into snow, and significant snow accumulations are predicted. Find details.
|
|
|
Prepare for a healthy New Year |
|
The New Year often finds us thinking about resolutions and how to boost our overall wellbeing.
According to Mental Health First Aid, dimensions of wellbeing include environment, occupation, social life, education, and physical, emotional or financial health. Achieving wellbeing should allow a person to perform well at work and in their studies and relationships. As you begin creating a New Year’s resolution, it’s important to think about what dimensions of wellbeing you would like to focus on to bring balance in your life.
Here are some tips to get started and help you KEEP your resolutions:
-
Write down your goals. Writing your resolution on a piece of paper will help make your goals more tangible and help you to remember them. After you’ve written your goals down, put them somewhere where you’ll see them often to keep them at the forefront of your mind and help you stay focused.
-
Begin with a micro-step. Micro-steps are tiny actions you can take to achieve your goals. The point is to effortlessly create a habit that will fit into your schedule and slowly lead to more considerable change. Breaking your goals into micro-steps can also make them more realistic. For example, if your goal is to be more physically active, instead of starting with going to the gym every day, resolve to take the stairs instead of the elevator, or to walk to work instead of driving.
-
Start right now! Healthy habits can be picked up anytime. Focus on the present and start your commitment to change as soon as possible!
- Remember that setbacks are part of the journey.
|
|
Use your wellness benefit in 2022! |
|
All CHCS associates receive a Wellness Benefit that runs for the calendar year. Now is the time to plan how you'd like to use your benefit in 2022!
Associates who work 30 hours per week or more receive a $250 benefit, and part-time employees receive a $125 benefit. The benefit may be applied to CHCS Fitness Centers, vaccinations, or tobacco cessation. Associates can also apply the benefit to a wellness visit with a CHCS provider; please contact the Business Office to make these arrangements.
If you are interested in using your benefit toward a membership in one of our Fitness Centers (Onaga, Frankfort, and Centralia), please email Lyndsi Morton to join or renew.
- For full-time associates, the benefit covers 8 months of membership; for part-time, it covers 4 months.
- Full-time associates can split their membership into two 4-month blocks and take the summer months off if they prefer.
- A spouse can be added for an additional $10 plus tax per month, or a family member can be added for $20 plus tax per month, and these charges can be handled by payroll deduction.
Here's to healthy habits in 2022!
|
|
Reminder: Take a workplace well-being survey |
|
The CHCS Livewell Committee works to promote a healthy workplace for all of our employees, and we have a new partnership with WorkWell KS to help us do that. A first step is to have all associates complete a brief and confidential survey about workplace well-being. We hope EVERYONE will participate!
The deadline to complete the survey is Friday, January 14 at 5:00 p.m.
Find additional details about the survey AND a prize drawing you can enter after taking the survey in last week's E-Connection.
|
|
Here's to our associates with January birthdays. Join us in wishing them all the best as they celebrate!
Jacinta Palmeri, Alisa Skruch, Madyson Buescher, Miranda Krohn, Marie Fredericks, Jane McClain, Meghan Weiser, Tina Zartman, Karen Ebert, Courtney Koch, Jenna Rethman, Brandy Watkins, Debra Dellere, Lyndsi Morton, Gigi Bates, Joan Henry, Andrew Barnes, Linda Christen, Kathleen Haufler, Nicole Anne Tan, Skyler Baake, Michelle Budreau, Mindy Olberding, Manda Thompson, Angela White, Susie Kufahl, Michelle Gibbs, Kara Hoffman-Bagby, Chris Ireland, Debra Boyce, Bob Bernatis, Carmen D'Aloia, Sue Figge, Caitlin House, Emma Pedersen, Laurie Horgan, Jim Pierson, Denise Kohake, Melissa Tisdale, Nikki Wells, Paige Crum Plummer, Kaytlin Dohrman, Lynette Fordham, Amy Jones
|
|
|
Thank you for giving blood!
CHCS blood drive coordinator Marlene Wolfe received a special note of thanks from the Community Blood Center.
"We really did great this time around! Thanks so much for all your help. At the Friday, December 10 blood drive, the Community Blood Center staff registered 21 volunteers and collect 19 units of blood."
The writer, Guy Niederhauser, went on to thank Marlene for her assistance in coordinating life-saving blood drives in Onaga.
"I hope you feel a real sense of pride and appreciation from all of us at CBC. Working at the hospital I’m sure you know just how many people it takes to provide services for people in need and what we are doing with these blood drives is only one part of that, but it is essential and you are a linchpin in that process."
Thanks to everyone who helped by giving blood in December, and thanks to Marlene for doing an excellent job coordinating the blood drives here in Onaga.
Look for more opportunities in the future to help save lives by donating blood!
|
|
|
Keep sharing holiday photos!
Do you have more photos of a holiday celebration at your location or in your department? Send them to news@chcsks.org
A few holiday happenings are pictured below. Happy New Year!
|
|
Eastridge Christmas party
Santa came to visit Eastridge residents, and they enjoyed presents, good food, good friends, and a lot of fun!
|
|
|
Ho, Ho, Holton!
Holton enjoyed a Secret Santa activity during December and a pot luck lunch celebration on December 23.
|
|
|
Christmas sweaters all over the place!
The CHCS Spirit Squad invited associates around the system to wear Christmas sweaters (beautiful OR ugly) on December 22. You didn't let us down!
Pictured below, top to bottom: Frankfort Clinic staff, Onaga Registration, Onaga Admin (left) and Skyler Baake from the Business Office (right), Onaga Surgery (left) and Pharmacy (right), and Eastridge staff (including Murphy!) in bottom collage.
|
|
|
Christmas at St. Marys Manor
Santa distributed a sleigh full of gifts to Manor residents. Look at those Christmas smiles!
|
|
|
 |
Coffee Shop Special
January 3-7
Crackerjack Caramel Latte
- Caramel and hazelnut
-
16 oz., $4
- Hot, cold, or frappe
Please note:
-
New Year's Eve hours (Dec. 31): 7 a.m. to 12 noon
-
Regular business hours of 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. resumed after Christmas. Please place orders well in advance of 3:00 so afternoon baristas can close on time!
|
|
|
|
CHCS menu: Onaga and Eastridge |
St. Marys menus are available each morning through the Activities chronicle.
|
|
Editor's note: Thanks to IT Director Dom Freeman for submitting this week's and last week's funnies. Nice work!
|
|
Did you miss your Connection?
Important information is relayed every week in the E-Connection. If you miss it in your email, an archive is available on our website. Visit the For Associates page, then click E-Connection Archive.
|
|
|
Send items for the E-Connection or for sharing with our broader social media audience to sarahhancock@chcsks.org. Please send items by close of business on Tuesdays when possible. Ideas are welcome!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
