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Employee Newsletter, 50th Anniversary Celebration
Congratulations to Angie Tyus and Debra Strickland in Med/Surg for completing requirements for Nurse Practitioner. Other nursing graduates include Heather Barber, RN, Donna Thompson, RN, Martine Salter, RN, Renee Thompson, RN, Lee Ann Jones, RN and Misty Fudge, LPN.
Annual Requirements
The Annual Healthfair (Spring Training) will be completed during April-May of 2010. Healthfair is required to be eligible for a merit increase. Please contact Deborah Brown at ext. 450 if you have not completed this requirement.
Employee Education Calendar
Check out the employee education calendar to see what classes we are offering in-house. If you are interested in any of the classes offered, please contact Deborah Brown at ext. 450.
Employee Open Enrollment for Insurance Benefits
Open Enrollment for employee insurance benefits will be conducted in April 2010. Please keep a look out for the scheduled open enrollment sessions. All changes made during open enrollment will be effective for June 1, 2010.
Oleatha Kegler, LPN, Receives 2009 "Julia C. Rogers Excellence in Service Award"
In celebration of National Hospital Week and National Nursing Home Week, Memorial Hospital and Manor honored its employees, physicians and volunteers on May 14th with an annual awards program and picnic lunch. The presentation of the prestigious Julia C. Rogers "Excellence in Service" Award was the highlight of an informal awards program, which also included the presentation of service pins. The Julia C. Rogers "Excellence in Service" Award is given annually "to a Memorial Hospital and Manor employee whose commitment to serving patients extends beyond assigned responsibilities and whose caring efforts offer inspiration to others." The award has been given annually since 1990 in honor of the late Mrs. Julia C. Rogers, a Memorial Hospital and Manor nurse whose compassion and commitment touched patients, as well as employees, of the hospital and nursing home.
The recipient of this award is nominated by his peers and selected on qualities such as courteousness, consideration, gentleness, respectfulness and helpfulness. This year, Oleatha Kegler, LPN, was selected for the Rogers Award. Kegler has worked as a nurse in the Women's Center at Memorial Hospital and Manor for over 20 years. In the award nomination, which was submitted by her peers, Kegler was described as an awesome nurse and person. As a Labor and Delivery nurse, Kegler was noted as having compassion and patience in helping new mothers learn to breast feed, even helping them after they are discharged from the hospital. The nomination also explained that "She possesses every quality that a nurse should hold-wisdom, compassion, and kindness. She always finds a way to make her patients smile, and always with a humble, genuine attitude."
After the Rogers award and other service awards were given, Memorial's maintenance department employees served grilled smoked pork chops on the hospital grounds for the entire staff of over 600 employees, volunteers and physicians.