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Register for Employee Forums,Which Will Be In Person The February Employee Forums will be back to live and in-person events! Forums are Feb. 22-26.

The additional safety measures we are taking include:

Offering 27 sessions in one week (versus the usual 17 sessions).Limiting seating capacity in both auditoriums.Cleaning the auditoriums between each session.Providing sanitizing packets for each attendee (hand sanitizer, sanitizing wipes, Pulse Check form

and pen, small water bottle, and scratch ticket in a zip-lock bag).

You must talk to your manager to schedule a time to attend a forum session. While attending Employee Forums in person is not mandatory, we’re very excited to offer live sessionsand see everyone again. We look forward to your questions during the sessions and having aconversation. If you don't attend a forum in person, you are expected to watch it online when it's posted in March. Topics of the February Employee Forums are:

Our post-COVID outlook.A new way to schedule and pre-authorize patients.Launching a new intranet.What's happening in Helena: Legislative priorities.

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Take a Sneak Peek at HelenaNortheast From pancakes to healthcare! We now have a rendering of the Helena location that will openthis summer as Benefis Helena Northeast. It's located at theformer IHOP restaurant just off Interstate 15 near CusterAvenue.

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The Benefis Helena Medical Center at the former shopping mall will be built in 2022.

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Technology

Vocera UpgradeBegins Next Week

Benefis is replacingmost of our olderVocera badges, theB3000n, with a newupgraded Vocerabadge, the V5000“Smartbadge." The new badge willcontinue to work withthe same voicecommands we are allfamiliar with but also willhave some addedfeatures.

What You Need toKnow for theUpgrade

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Spectrum Becomes BenefisCommunity CareLeadership is excited to announce thatBenefis Spectrum Medical is being renamedBenefis Community Care. We've found that the name Spectrumconfuses people because of the similarlynamed cable company. The new name alsowill help develop a more prominent presence in the communities BenefisCommunity Care works in and expands into. The services offered by Benefis Community Care include home medicalequipment and respiratory services; licensed home health care services;outpatient palliative care; Medicaid Waiver case management services in 53of Montana’s 56 counties; private pay in-home care services; personalemergency response services; foot clinic services; patient transportation andcourier services for the health system; and certified nursing assistant andmedication aide training programs for Benefis Health System, the community,and regional healthcare facilities. We'd like to share just one example of the profound difference BenefisCommunity Care makes in people's lives. A man in Bozeman can leave his house for groceries, doctor visits,socialization, and more after 18 months homebound thanks to the work of acase manager at Benefis Community Care. The man, who uses a wheelchair, previously couldn’t safely navigate theoutside steps to his home. That’s when the Medicaid Waiver case managersstepped in. They enrolled him in the Medicaid Waiver program, which allowedthem to work with a contractor who installed a medically necessary

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The Benefis mailroom isnot to be used forpersonal use. Please don't try to takein your own FedEx orUPS packages forpersonal outbound use. The staff has foundAmazon returns andovernight envelopes inthe mailroom withincreasing frequency,and it's not supply chainstaff's responsibility orduty to return/mailpersonal items.

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Sale on Botox andLaser Treatments

Show your skin somelove this month! Benefis Med Spa'sspecial this month is 15percent off laserpackages and 15percent off all dermalfillers. Interested in Botox? Fora limited time, you canget 15 units free whenyou buy 35 units.

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wheelchair ramp at themember’s home. “That ramp means he canremain in his home and inhis community. It means hecan live to his optimallevel of independence,”said Brad Garpestad,Benefis Community Carechief operating officer.

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Safety Survey Begins TodayThe biennial Culture of Safety Survey beginstoday. The survey is part of our goal to support aculture of patient safety and qualityimprovement at Benefis. The survey is openFeb. 1-14. Clinical staff, please watchyour email for the survey link and moredetails. It's anonymous, and your input is greatly appreciated.

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Annual Employee Self-Evaluations Begin TodayAnnual self-evaluations begin today, Feb. 1.The deadline to complete your self-evaluation is Monday, Feb. 15. All Benefis employees are asked tocomplete a self-evaluation each year,excluding providers. During this AnnualPerformance Evaluation process, you canreflect on your challenges and successes from 2020. Following the self-evaluation, you will have an opportunity to meet one-on-onewith your manager to discuss your goals, strengths, and areas forimprovement. During your Annual Performance Evaluation meeting with your manager, youwill review your educational transcript, so make sure all of your requirededucation has been completed.

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If you were hired after Oct. 1, 2020, you will not complete an official self-evaluation in Employee Central until next year. Click here for instructions onwhere to find your education within Employee Central, and click here to learnhow to download and print your own transcript. Click here for instructions on accessing and completing the self-evaluation in Employee Central.

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Faces of Benefis

Kara Johnson, PMHNP, JoinsBenefis Behavioral Health Kara Johnson is a psychiatric-mental healthnurse practitioner in the Behavioral HealthUnit. While Kara recently completed her master’sdegree, she has been caring for hospitalizedmental health patients as a nurse in herhome state of Minnesota since 2012. She ison track to graduate with her Doctor ofNursing Practice degree this year. Kara enjoys exploring the outdoors, camping, and reading.

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Bird is a Buddy for Hospice StaffWe’d like you to meet Buddy, a cockatoowho lifts spirits at Peace Hospice. Years ago, Buddy’s person passed away atHospice with Buddy by his side. Buddy hadnowhere to go, so he ended up becoming apermanent addition to the office and aparticular friend of Phylis, the Hospicesecretary (he is known to get an attitudewhen she’s off work). Hospice staff and volunteers work hard tohelp patients and their families deal withmaterial and spiritual concerns at the end.For some patients, a chief source of worry iswhat will become of their beloved pets.Recently another staff member took in asenior dog, enhancing her family andproviding ease for a patient. We never stop marveling at the caring hearts of our Hospice team.

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Benefis Teton Medical Center

Grateful Family Establishes Long-Term Care Endowment

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Loren Solberg, Chester Solberg's son,served about 10 years on the BenefisTeton Medical Center board and is aregular donor to the BTMC Foundation.

The family of Chester Solberg, who lived outhis final years at Benefis Teton MedicalCenter, has established the SolbergFoundation to benefit improvements to thelong-term care wing at the hospital inChoteau. Chester’s children donated $40,000 fromtheir father’s farm corporation to establishthe endowment, and the Benefis TetonMedical Center Foundation contributedanother $10,000 to launch the endowment,the Choteau Acantha reports.

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