Beatitudes Community

A Casino Christmas

Last Friday the campus Everett Luther Life Center was transformed into Vegas—well not exactly, but staff did enjoy the blackjack, roulette and craps tables that filled the room for this year’s Casino themed Employee Christmas Holiday Party. Fun was had by all who attended, and at the end of the night, four $100 gift certificates and two $250 gift certificates we given to six lucky winners of the evening.

Prior to the casino play, we had the opportunity to hear from Betty Henriques, Chairperson for the Employee Appreciation Committee, as she thanked the staff for their work and Barbara Carpenter, President of Residents Council, who read a beautiful poem written for our staff by Bob Longoni. On behalf of our entire staff, I thank you for your generosity this year in raising a record-breaking $165,000 to distribute to the team members* who live out our our Mission and Core Values each and every day for you. What a difference you make for them as well, especially during the holiday season with your holiday gift!

This special event also allows us to honor the milestone anniversaries for our staff. Please join me congratulating the following team members for their years of service and dedication:

Five Years
Christina Coffman
Angela Duran
Deborah Knaack
Terri Kosmulski
Denise Lenzi-Monson
Yolanda Mendoza
Edward Odom
Nycole Person

Five Years (Cont.)
Melissa Preston
Tiffany Reyes
John Sweeney
Sylvie Tchitchiama
Angela Yepez

Ten Years
Liudmila Bosovski
Mitch Bradshaw
Enrique Creach-Vargas
David Hinsley
Shirley Kendrick
Korry Nelson
Jon Schilling
Lori Wilson

Fifteen Years
Lori Eddings
Maria Flores
Moreen Helean
Sara Keeter
Scott Mardian
Ni Ni Mya

Twenty Years
Tena Alonzo
Kathy Amend
Leona Fox
Jamie Isabelle

Twenty five Years
Mary Long
Mark Trent

Thirty Years
Judy Orlando

Thirty Five Years
Karen Mitchell

 

The Employee Christmas party allows our team to come together for fun and fellowship as we celebrate our successes of the year. Thank you again for making the staff’s holidays so special.  May your season be merry and bright. *

 

New Director of Human Resources

As many of you are aware, Tara Bethell left Beatitudes back in November of 2017. At that time—we brought in an Interim Director of Human Resources until a replacement was hired. During our search, we had the opportunity to look at and evaluate our organizational structure and the decision was made not to replace the original Sr. VP of HR and Risk Management position and instead allow myself (with over ten years of Human Resources experience) to oversee the HR Team from an executive level (including the corporate risk management role) and hire a Director of Human Resources to oversee the day-to-day operations. I am grateful for the opportunity to continue to grow and develop as a leader by taking on these responsibilities. Additionally, this change allows others to be part of our organization and provide new ideas and knowledge to ensure we continue progressing as a leader in the field of Aging Services.

Our new Director of Human Resources, Barb Williams, joined us in early February and was introduced at the February Town Hall. Barb has already hit the ground running in the month she’s been here—meeting with employees, department heads and learning her way around our community. She has worked in the field of Human Resources for 18 years and has the PHR (Certified Professional in Human Resources) and SHRM-CP (Society for Human Resources Certified Professional) certifications. She has spent most of her career in the healthcare field, gaining this experience by working at medical universities and homecare. Barb enjoys working with employees in the senior living and health services fields because she can help those who provide care and support to residents. When Barb isn’t working, she loves spending time with her family, reading and hiking. She’s been married for just shy of 30 years to her husband, Kevin, has a daughter—Brianna, and son—David, as well as a grandson—Damien. Barb is also a pet lover and has three dogs (Keena, Chessie and Nichole) and Ally, the cat.

Another management change will be taking place on March 19th when Priscilla Von Wilczur will be joining us as our new Health Care Center Director of Nursing. Priscilla comes to us with over 36 years of nursing experience and has specialized in long term care and rehab. Most recently, Priscilla was the Director of Quality Management for Sun Health La Loma Care Center. Priscilla helped lead the team to a deficiency free survey in 2017 and maintain a CMS (Center for Medicare Services) 5-star rating for several years. Priscilla has a great eye for detail, excellent follow-up and high quality expectations of her team.

You may now be wondering where our current Director of Nursing, Teresa Borton is going. After spending a couple of weeks transitioning Priscilla into her new role—I am very pleased to share that—Teresa will begin a state-approved Administrator in Training (AIT) program on April 2nd in our Health Care Center. Teresa will spend over 1,000 hours during the following six months learning and rotating through all of the departments within the Health Care Center, gaining the experience and understanding to take on the Administrator role. Don’t be surprised if you see her shadowing staff—which may involve cooking meals, serving meals, being a CNA, cleaning floors, helping maintenance, etc. Teresa will go through her program with oversight from myself as her preceptor. She will be assigned a site evaluator who will review her monthly progress reports, come on-site to ensure she is following her training program and provide any additional support she may need. When she finishes this program—she’ll take her state exam and then federal exam to become a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA). Afterwhich she will take over as the Administrator of the Health Care Center and oversee day-to-day operations.

Teresa has done a great job as not only the Director of Nursing these last few years, but has also been my right-hand in operations. With this experience, plus the AIT program under her belt, I know she will make a positive impact as Administrator for our community.

While all these exciting changes happen, please know that our commitment to providing quality resident services and care as well as providing our employees with a positive and purposeful employment experience hasn’t changed; we hope you will see that this will just enhance it.

 


This week, we celebrate Long Term Care Administrator’s week, from March 11th through the 17th. In honor of this special week—we would like to thank and congratulate @cknupp, Sr. VP of HR & Health Services, for everything she does involving long term care at our community. If you see her around campus, be sure to congratulate her this week!

 

Employee Appreciation Party Round-Up

Thank to everyone that was able to come to the Employee Appreciation Party on Friday, September 30th. We hope you all had fun and were able to get some goodies from the vendors we had there. Over 140 of you showed up (and some came back for seconds) and partied with us for a few hours.

During the raffle we had several winners:ee-party

  • Beashu Francis (Housekeeping) won a $50 Movie gift card
  • Martin Medina (Maintenance) won an ACE Hardware gift card
  • Carlene Valentine (AL) won the Movie pack
  • Sara Paull (Marketing) won the Dinner & Movie gift card
  • Jerry AMaya (Maintenance) won the Michael’s gift card
  • John Hughes (Nursing) won the Bed Bath and Beyond gift card
  • Alexis Loza (Dining) won the Griffith Bag
  • Adiary Medero (Dining) won the Blue Tooth Speaker
  • Ron Ingram (AL) won the Home Spa Basket
  • Angel Enojos (Maintenance) won one of the $50 Target gift cards
  • Isaiah White (Dining) won the other $50 Target gift card

Thank you again to all that were able to make it and we hope you had a great time! Be on the lookout for your Christmas Party invitations as that is our next big event!

Employee Appreciation Fund: There’s Still Time!

As you know, the staff and salon contractors at the campus cannot accept gifts or gratuities even though they provide excellent service year round.  If you appreciate their dedication and hard work, please consider a donation to the Employee Appreciation Fund of the Residents Council.  Your tax-deductible gift will be split among the staff the first week of December.  Donations can be made in the form of cash (please mark the envelope), check (made out to Beatitudes Campus Foundation and Employee Appreciation Fund in the memo section), credit card (Welcome Center, Billing Office, or Foundation Office), or you can sign up for a monthly donation with your bill in the Billing Office.  Last year, we were shy of our goal, please help us meet or beat the goal of $120,000 by donating before October 31, 2016.  Thank you for your generosity!

To date, there’s been $75,826 contributed (THANK YOU!) with a goal of $120,000. Help us reach our goal—contribute today! DEADLINE for contributions: Oct. 31, 2016.

We Appreciate You!

41911-peace-sign-lunch-platesYou all rock! Every day you work so hard and we see it. That’s why we’re throwing you a party! That’s right! This Friday, September 30th from 10:30AM to 1:30PM come join us for a totally mellow party! It’s hippie themed so come dress in your retro 70s gear (pending your supervisors approval). We’ll have make your own cobb salads, spring rolls, bread rolls, “not so special” brownies, and assorted canned soda including Mello Yello.

Also we will have a few of our very own artists on display. Mahree Morin (Marketing), Michael Ford (Laundry), Anthony Farias (Transportation), and Chris Mason (Activities) and Josie Gay (Nursing) will all be out showing off some of what they’ve got. If you have a talent that you want to display feel free to contact Kevin Morrison in the HR office at 602 995 6118 or at [email protected].

There will be Collective Goods (Formerly Books Are Fun), Gold Canyon and Origami Owl there as well so bring a few dollars if you’d like to buy anything.

Break out the bellbottoms and come dressed in spirit! Tell your friends and save the date!

Shoutout – Tamara Price and George Klink

Tamara Price (HCC) and George Klink (HCC) both received shout outs from Diane Hochsteller, a family member of a resident here, after a recent visit to the Health Care Center. They were said to be patient and thorough, kind and professional. They always had time to answer questions and never made the family feel they were being rushed. Great job showing off the compassion we love and train here at the Campus.

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