May 2019May 2019May 2019

We are all God’s people taking care of God’s people.We are all God’s people taking care of God’s people.We are all God’s people taking care of God’s people.

Marian Hase—Editor

Healing Fire and Light S t a f f N e w s

In This Issue St. Aloisius Medical Center Clinic

Mission Statement Sister’s Corner

M&M Days Scheduled New Employees

Safety/Security R&R

Employee Anniversaries Direct Dial Numbers

Formation Minute

Spring Wellness Days—Thank You! Decontamination Team

St Aloisius Medical Center Clinic

Appointments to see Dr. Geier, Dr. Dean and Kim Thorson can be made by calling 324-5131. Dr. Kelly Krohn also takes ap-pointments monthly for osteoporosis. Deb Buxa, FNP and Lisa Neumiller, FNP will be joining St. Aloisius Clinic June 1, 2019. Dr. Michael Page will be providing services at St. Aloisius Medical Center beginning May 1, 2019. Welcome!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

April 2019 NEW EMPLOYEES

Welcome to the St. Aloisius Family!

McKenzie Alveshere—Daycare

Tailor Burton—Dietary

Hailey Filler—Dietary

Jorden Harding—Laundry

Kaylee Meckle—Daycare

Denice Morrow—Switchboard

Kortney Roscoe—Switchboard

SISTER’S CORNERSISTER’S CORNER

Are you Making Progress…

in your life, either at work, at home, and in your Spiritual life?

“ His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness. For this very rea-son, make every effort to add to your faith goodness.” 2 Peter 1: 3 and 5

Christians, too have a way to measure their progress, or growth. God wants to see his children grow to be more like Jesus, and who among us does not want to have the characteristics of Je-sus increasingly evident in our lives?

Many things our day to day life is done by habit from the time we get up till we go to bed. Also we can get into the habit of taking a few minutes to pray for a short time daily. Turn off or unplug your phone, or other items for five minutes and just have silence in your life.

St. Peter writes that we should make every effort to “add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance, and to perseverance. Godliness, and to godliness, mutual affection, and to mutual affection, love.”

In your effort to increase and grow in the love of your God, one needs to take time in your daily life to spend five minutes of time in prayer, and see if you can increase it from time to time. Don’t used the excuse that you are too busy. By getting in the habit of spending a few quiet minutes each day, you will feel that God provides much more. He “has given us every-thing we need for life and godliness. The Apostle Paul writes, “ God is at work within you, helping you want to obey him and then helping you do what he wants.” (Philippians 2:13)

Father, thank you for providing everything we need to grow spiritually, as well as profes-sionally . Forgive us for too often being satisfied with the status quo, or measuring ourselves by others. Amen.

Your Chaplain, Sister Mary Agnes Pastoral Care Department

H e a l i n g F i r e & L i g h t P a g e 2

M&M Days Scheduled for 2019

(Mission & Motivation)

Decon Ken Votava will be the presenter on Tuesday, October 8 and Wednesday, Oc-

tober 9 with times to be determined. Decon Votava is the director of Pastoral Care at

Ave Maria Village in Jamestown.

A short session on “How to Respond to an Emergency” will be given at each

presentation.

H e a l i n g F i r e & L i g h t p a g e 3

Compliance and Ethics

•Another way of making sure St. Aloisius Medical Center does business in a legal and ethical manner.

–CMS says we must comply with federal regulations regarding fraud, abuse and waste.

–Must not bill for services not rendered.

–Need to follow rules and regulations regarding ethical and pa-tient centered care.

–SAMC follows the Catholic Healthcare Directives.

If you see something that doesn’t look right, email Marian at mhase@staloisius.com or call 701.399.9486. You can also write a note, seal it in an envelope and put it in Marian’s mailbox in the Administrative Secretary’s (Nancy’s) office.

Read your Employee Handbook—lots of information on Compli-ance and Ethics, expected employee behavior is in there!

Fire Safety

Responding to a fire alarm—do not call the switchboard to find out where the fire is. Wait for the announcement!

The switchboard person is busy figuring out where the “fire” is, and cannot take time away from the job of announcing the alarm to answer the phone.

The fire alarm is sounding—go to your safe place and wait for the announcement, sign the form.

1. Front Lobby 2. Med/Surg Nurse’s Station

3. Unit A Nurses’ Station 4. Unit B Nurses’ Station

5. Clinic Lobby 6. Medical Records Department

If you feel comfortable using a fire extinguisher, take one and go to the area of the fire.

Stay in the safe area until the “All Clear” is called.

St. Aloisius Medical Center Direct Dial Numbers

St. Aloisius Clinic—324-5131 Medical Floor - 324-5112 Unit A—324-5121 Unit B—324-5118

Daycare—324-5109 Sherri Engkvist—324-5120 Candie Thompson—324-5113 Lab—324-5116 Radiology—324-5107

Physical Therapy—324-5119 Enter these numbers in your phone! Cut this out and put on your fridge!

St. Aloisius MayAnniversaries

Lorie Sieg—37 years

Lynette Bender—36 years

Linda Faul—25 years

Tonia Erickson—24 years

Lola Metcalf—23 years

Lanette Mertz—21 years

Jaime Bush—21 years

Jamie Schuh—18 years

Jodi Davis—17 years

Lona Jelsing—17 years

Bruce Snyder—17 years

Judy Titus—15 years

Laurie Pellett—14 years

Crystal Holzer—11 years

Evony Hansen—11 years

Kim Goldade—8 years

Sarah Gregg—8 years

Ruth Meckle—7 years

Devany Stutlien—4 years

Gordon Mayer—2 years

Veronica Opdahl—2 years

Megan Givens—1 year

Hannah Blomquist—1 year

Mariah Nitz—1 year

Danny Klimpel-Usselman—1 year

342 years of dedicated service to St.

Aloisius Medical Center!

H e a l i n g F i r e & L i g h t P a g e 4

Formation Minute

You will never appreciate enough the happiness of having your own chapel.” -Mother Ste. Therese de Jesus (SMP History, Vol. 1)

As SMP Health System, we often refer to our work as “fulfilling the healing mission of Jesus.” It is for this reason that we consider our work to be more than just a job—it’s a ministry. Further-more, we extend the use of the term ministry beyond what we do to where we do it. We refer to our facilities as “ministries.” By doing this, we understand not only the work we do as sacred, but also the place where this work takes place as sacred. When we fulfill the healing mission of Je-sus, we make Him present in a real way. This meeting of the human and divine is what makes our work sacred and where this takes place is then a sacred space. While all of this is true, there is also the reality that some moments and places are more sacred than others, even within our ministries. Take for example a room where a patient or resident is dying. Death is a significant moment in everyone’s life, and as such has a very spiritual and sa-cred character. And this sacredness is something that, I think, we all naturally understand. We conduct ourselves in a different way when we’re around someone who is dying—we speak softly and walk quietly. We even have special rooms in some of our ministries to accommodate the sa-credness of this time. In our ministries, there is also another way in which the human and divine meet, outside of the work that we do. In each of our ministries we have a chapel—a sacred space set aside specifically for worshiping and encountering God. As a Catholic ministry, we also believe that in our chap-els, Jesus lives in a unique way in the Blessed Sacrament contained within the tabernacle (the lit-tle, gold box with a red candle near it). This adds a certain concreteness to our understanding of our chapels as places where we meet God. Just as we conduct ourselves differently in other areas of heightened spiritual significance, we ought to conduct ourselves accordingly when in our chapels. For Catholics, this means genu-flecting when crossing in front of the tabernacle; and for all of us, it means keeping idle chatter to a minimum, and when we do speak, using a lower voice. This holds true anytime one is in the chapel area regardless of whether a service is being conducted or not, because, as stated earlier, the sacredness of this space has to do with God’s presence, not what is happening. (If your par-ticular ministry has a chapel which is attached to a multi-purpose room, this holds true for the entire space when the chapel area is not partitioned off.) We are privileged to be able to bring Christ’s healing to others in our ministries, and as we daily go about doing this, perhaps we might take time to acknowledge God’s presence both in what we do, as well as in a particular way in our sacred spaces. JT Kennelly Director of Formation SMP Health System

P a g e 5 H e a l i n g F i r e & L i g h t

R&R Committee (Retention & Recognition) NEWS

1. MORE MEMBERS ARE NEEDED FOR THIS COMMITTEE!

2. They meet the second Wednesday of each month at 2:00 pm to discuss ways to pro-mote employee recognition and retention. This is an informal committee but the com-mittee is in need of more input.

3. 2nd Wednesday is also a day to WEAR JEANS for $1 with the money going to the R&R Committee to provide STUFF.

Thank You!! Thank you to everyone who had a hand in making our Spring Wellness Days a success!

Participants appreciate this service to our community, coming from as far away as

Jamestown this spring.

Totals:

Harvey: 85, 118, 99

Drake: 42, Fessenden: 64

Grand Total: 408

PSAs: 124

Employee participants: 44

Your hard work and participation is much appreciated!

You won't want to miss

St. Aloisius Medical Center’s 36th

Health, Fitness & Safety Fair!!

“Healthy People, Happy People”

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

at the Harvey City Hall

FREE Admission!

Wells County District Health Unit and Wells County Sheriff will offer a Drug Take Back oppor-

tunity!!

Free blood pressure checks, vision screens, inju-ry screenings, colorectal screening kits, derma

scan screenings,

product samples, and more!

Information on

Therapies, Health Care Directives, Medicare, Women’s Way, cancer screenings, healthy

eating, spinning, hearing loss, assistive technolo-gy and resources, finger printing for employ-

ment, foster care, children’s services and many more health and safety ideas, resources and products! Stop by the ice cream cone booth !

Great door prizes! More than 40 exhibitors!

Lunch selections will be available

from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. with proceeds going toward the Harvey Kiwanis High School Scholar-

ships.

SUPPORT KIWANIS & KIDS!!

P a g e 6 H e a l i n g F i r e & L i g h t

Decontamination Team

If a patient comes to St. Aloisius Medical Center

exposed to a chemical and has not changed clothes

or showered, we have a crew that can be ready!

(This is above and beyond their “normal job du-

ties.”)

We do two kinds of training:

1. 1st Receiver Certification

2. Local Hands-On—March 28, 2019

Miranda Weninger, Jackie Martin, Nathan Pitch-

ford, Jessica Hanson (dressed), Kevin Tuenge, and

Christy Arends.

Information Technology

Tim Keller has joined the staff of St.

Aloisius Medical Center as our part time on-

site IT guy. His extension is 5180.

Please continue to put incidents into

Northstar as before. If the incident involves

Tim, Northstar will let him know if it is

something for him.

Speaking of computers….

DO NOT HAVE BEVERAGES

AROUND COMPUTERS!!

SAMC plans to replace many old

ones but at this time we have no

spare ones.

3-D Mammography is Here!

American Cancer Society recommends (with average

risk) baseline mammogram between ages 40-44; annual

mammogram from ages 45 to 54; ages 55+ can elect to have

mammograms every other year or may continue to have

annual mammograms.

3-D increases detection of changes over 2-D and decreas-

es the chance of you being called back for additional imag-

es.

To schedule an appointment call the Radiology Depart-

ment at 701-324-5107.

St. Aloisius Resident/Family Picnic

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm in the yard beside the nursing home and behind St. Ce-

cilia Catholic Church (same area as last year.) Please mark your calendar.

10th Annual Golf Tournament

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 10:00 am at the Harvey Country Club. 4 person Scram-

ble—$180 per team. Proceeds will be used towards the purchase of a Standing Lift for the hospital and

a High/Low Table for hospital therapy.