In the October 11, 2016

A weekly publication for you.

We are the hospitals of HSHS Southern Illinois Division HSHS St. Elizabeth’s - Belleville HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial -EffinghamHSHS St. Joseph’s - BreeseHSHS Holy Family Hospital - GreenvilleHSHS St. Joseph’s - Highland

Our Strategic Goals • Living Our Mission

• Quality/Care Integration

• Develop Our People

• Stewardship: Operations/Finance and Growth

Our Mission To reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through our high quality Franciscan health care ministry.

Promise Pointers“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

2017 Flexplan (HSHS Healthy Plan) Offers More Benefits Colleague Enrollment Begins Monday, October 31

We’re pleased to announce that Aetna will be the new medical claims administrator for 2017, replacing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, and Express Scripts will be the new pharmacy benefit manager with over 70,000 pharmacies nationally. HSHS made the decision to move to Aetna after an extensive review that included customer service quality, the plan’s network, and access to resources to support you.

If you enroll in the HSHS Healthy Plan and choose care from HSHS Preferred providers, you will receive the highest level of benefits. For 2017, the HSHS Healthy Plan will include another benefit tier for Aetna Supplemental network providers. This additional tier is designed to support colleagues as HSHS continues to build and expand the HSHS Preferred network. Aetna Supplemental network providers include primary care and specialist physicians in areas where the HSHS Preferred network is not as extensive as in other areas.

HSHS colleague contributions for health coverage have been below the national average for comparable coverage, and we expect this trend to continue in 2017. For 2017, there will be a 2% increase in colleague premium contributions for HSHS Healthy Plan and dental coverage.

There are other important medical plan updates.

• As announced earlier this year, colleagues and family members enrolled in the HSHS Healthy Plan can visit with a doctor online or by telephone any hour or day of the week through the Anytime Care program. Visits are covered at 100%, no deductible. HSHS is pleased to continue the Anytime Care program through 2017.

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International Central Service WeekOctober 9-15, 2016International Central Service (CS) week recognizes the committed specialists that fill CS departments and make a difference in patient care throughout the United States. CS professionals are among the most vital contributors to the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. They work diligently to ensure that each and every instrument is properly decontaminated, sterilized, well-functioning, and available when needed. Over the last year, Sterile Processing staff at St. Anthony’s processed 6,756 loads of instruments and sterilized 37,999 items!

Thank you to all of our dedicated CS staff members in our Sterile Processing department!

• Effective January 1, 2017, the HSHS Healthy Plan will not cover facility charges at particular locations. HSHS is proud of our facilities, and we hope this change encourages colleagues to use HSHS facilities for their care. The utilization of our own facilities invests in our people and our organization, helping to build a stronger system of care in the communities we serve. Please see your 2017 Flexplan Decision Guide for a complete list of facilities that are excluded from HSHS Healthy Plan coverage.

• The HSHS Healthy Plan’s higher “Other Network” deductible and out-of-pocket maximum will apply to Aetna network specialists who are not HSHS Preferred providers or Aetna Supplemental network providers.

• For 2017, the HSHS Healthy Plan is piloting coverage for spinal manipulations (chiropractic care). This covered service addition responds to requests from many of you.

• We are pleased to share that we are offering a vision coverage option. If elected, the VSP Vision Plan provides coverage for eye exams, lenses, frames and contact lenses.

During annual enrollment, you have an opportunity to review and update your benefit choices for 2017. Your benefit elections will be effective January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. It’s important that you take time to consider your benefits and make elections before the enrollment deadline. You won’t have another opportunity to make changes to your benefits during the year, unless you have a qualifying change in status.

Packets containing the 2017 FlexPlan Decision Guide have been mailed to your home address, so please be on the lookout for those. HSHS Colleagues are encouraged to attend the enrollment meetings People Services department will conduct to learn more about your Flexplan benefits and changes for 2017. Take time to review this guide for highlights of all your Flexplan benefits and for your 2017 colleague HSHS Healthy Plan, dental plan and VSP vision plan contributions.

HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital will host the following Flex Plan (HSHS Healthy Plan) benefit meetings:

Day Time Location

Thursday, October 20, 2016 7 a.m., 10 a.m., and 2 p.m. St. Anthony Room

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 4 p.m. St. Anthony Room

If you have questions about your benefits or enrolling, you can contact benefits representatives at the HSHS Colleague Service Center at 1-855-FYI-HSHS (1-855-394-4747). For online benefits support and the link to enroll in 2017 benefits, visit the new HSHS Benefits web site at benefits.hshs.org.

Mayor designates Breast Cancer Awareness MonthEffingham Mayor Jeff T. Bloemker, fourth from right, signed a proclamation designating October 2016 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Joining the Mayor from HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital for the signing were Dr. Ryan Jennings, Chief Medical Officer; Jill Navarro, Cancer Program Specialist; Susan Koontz, Women’s Wellness Center Facilitator; Ashley Davis, Women’s Wellness Center Nurse Navigator; Kelly Sager, Chief Nursing Officer, Dr. Ruben Boyajian, Medical Director of Women’s Wellness and Cancer Care Services; and Mike Janis, Executive Director of Outpatient and Ancillary Services.

To show support for breast cancer awareness, colleagues can wear pink scrubs on Fridays in October including Friday, October 14, 21 and 28. After October 28, normal uniform standards resume.

In the Know is distributed weekly on Tuesday by HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital. Deadline for inclusion in the next issue is Thursday. Please submit information to be included on the Marketing and Communications Request Form located on SAMNet at this location: https://intranet.hshs.org/ Effingham/Marketing_and_Communication_Request_Form.aspx

Our Core Values in ActionHere are some recent examples of our Core Values being lived out at St. Anthony’s, where we are creating “moments that make lasting memories!” These reviews were shared by patients’ family members who wanted to thank our colleagues and Medical Staff for the care provided to their loved ones, and shared their comments on the hospital’s Facebook page. Thank you all for living out your “Promise!”

We are St. Anthony’s and each of us makes a difference!

UPCOMING EVENTSFlu Vaccination Clinic Dates

Wednesday, October 12 | 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. Auditorium – St. Anthony Room

Tuesday, October 18 | 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Auditorium – St. Clare Room

Tuesday, October 25 | Noon – 4 p.m. Auditorium – St. Anthony Room

Thursday, October 27 | 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Auditorium – St. Anthony Room

Flu vaccine is available to all colleagues, physicians, allied health, and volunteers.

Walk With a Doc

Saturday, October 15 TREC Trail | 9 a.m.

Meet in the EPC Parking Lot prior to the walk.

Community Blood Services of Illinois Blood DriveMonday, October 17 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. | Auditorium

Each year at HSHS St. Anthony’s, over 2700 units of blood products are used. All of these blood products are donated through Community Blood Services of Illinois. In 2015, Effingham County has a whole only supplied 33% of the blood products that St. Anthony’s needed. Help bring that number up by donating at St. Anthony’s Blood Drive!

Halloween Parade volunteers still needed

It is almost time for the next parade and we’re inviting all colleagues to get involved by volunteering to walk! We will be participating in Effingham Halloween Parade on Sunday

October 30 at 2 p.m.

Please contact your manager to sign up to represent St. Anthony’s. (If you have not received a t-shirt from a previous

parade, please remember to give them your t-shirt size.)

Join us to show our communities that WE ARE St. Anthony’s…..

AND WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Nativities needed for Franciscan Nativity FestivalChiara Center - Springfield

SAVE THE DATES:

Friday, December 2 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, December 3 Noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, December 4 Noon to 4 p.m.

If you have never experienced the Franciscan Nativity Festival held at the Motherhouse in Springfield, please make an effort to do so this year. The event is free and open to the public. Over 100 different Nativity Sets from around the world are displayed in the beautiful setting of the Chiara Center, 4875 LaVerna Road, Springfield – on the grounds of St. Francis Convent, the home of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis.

St. Anthony’s is allowed to submit four (4) different Sets. If you have a Nativity Set that you would like featured, please visit Pastoral Care to pick up an entry form. Individuals interested in loaning a Nativity set are asked to provide background on the set's origin and/or family significance. Completed entry forms and Nativity sets are due to Pastoral Care by November 4. Nativity sets will be available for return the week of December 8.

If you have any questions, please contact Carol Gapsis, Director of Pastoral Care, at Ext. 1583.

Welcome! New Colleagues:Kristen Goen Wound Healing Center

Jamie Irwin | Clinical Diabetes Services

Lorraine Kuhl | Food and Nutrition

Rebecca Niebrugge | Accounting

Emily Friar | Occupational Therapy

Christina Raupp | Registration

COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS EVENTWednesday, November 2

HSHS St. Anthony’s is concerned about the health of its colleagues and their family members and community members. Because of this, St. Anthony’s has made the pledge to help increase colorectal cancer screening rates by supporting the 80% by 2018 initiative, a shared goal to have 80% of adults aged 50 and older regularly screened for colorectal cancer by 2018. The 80% by 2018 initiative is led by the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (an organization co-founded by ACS and CDC).

The vast majority of cases of colorectal cancer occur in people age 50 and older. Colorectal cancer in its’ early stages usually has no symptoms, so everyone 50 and older should get tested. There are several screening options – even take home options – available. Testing may include:

• Fecal Immunochemical (or Immunohistochemical) Test (FIT, also known as iFOBT) – a fecal blood test should be done every year. Note: most insurance providers only cover a FIT take-home screening test once every 12 months.

• Colonoscopy – Depending on findings, a colonoscopy is normally repeated every 5 to 10 years.

If you or your family member are ago 50 or older, or indicated for a screening due to a colon cancer diagnosis of a first-degree relative, and are enrolled in the hospital insurance,

colorectal screenings are available at no cost. However, hospital insurance only covers a screening test once every 12 months. The hospital insurance does require that the FIT test be performed by a BCBS network provider or colonoscopy be performed at an HSHS facility. Hospital insurance will pay none of the costs if performed at any other facility. Colleagues not on hospital insurance and community members may participate in the screening event; however, please check with your insurance provider on coverage for these screenings options.

St. Anthony’s will be holding a Colorectal Cancer Screening event on Wednesday, November 2 from 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. in the Auditorium – St. Francis Room. Eligible colleagues and their family members as well as community members over age 50 may come to the screening to receive a FIT take-home stool test or receive assistance in scheduling a colonoscopy.

If you have questions regarding the screenings options, Dr. Steve Jones, Cancer Committee Chairperson, at 347-3560 or Ext. 3560.

Together, Standing with All affected by Breast CancerIn honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, HSHS St. Anthony’s colleagues are demonstrating how they are standing together with all those affected by breast cancer. Check out these photos and others on St. Anthony’s Facebook.

We’re in this together!

Keep it going! Traveling Pink Ribbon for Breast Health Awareness MonthWhen the ribbon reaches your department, please take the photos as soon as possible.

• Participation is optional, but all departments must pass it along to the next department.

• Departments should not keep the ribbon longer than two days before passing to the next department. We want to ensure that all departments have an opportunity to participate before October 30.

• Please consider including physicians and volunteers when taking the photos; patients or hospital visitors should not be photographed, as this a special colleague activity and including them would require a Photo Consent Form.

• Photos may be taken with cell phone cameras and then sent to saecommunications@hshs.org, but please send without reducing size of photo. When emailing your photo(s), please identify your department name.

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EVENTfor Breast Health Awareness Month

Saturday, October 2911am-2pm

St. Clair Square • East CourtParticipating organizations:• HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital

Mammography, Women’s Physical Therapy, Career Services

• HSHS Home Care• HSHS Medical Group• Oncology information from Memorial &

St. Elizabeth’s Cancer Treatment Center• Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program• Affordable Care Act Information• Scott Credit Union

FREE Screenings availableFREE Bra Fittings by Dillard’s

October is Breast Cancer

Awareness Month.

Join us at this health fair with

screenings, breast health information, goodie bags and

attendance prizes.

Visit steliz.org/calendar for more information.

THINK PINK

Walk With a Doc Step It Up Challenge!Are you ready? The U.S Surgeon General has asked Walk with a Doc and all its family members - including you! - to take part in his #StepItUp Challenge to commemorate the call to action.

The Game?

Get as many people to MOVE in a two week period, October 13th - October 26th, as possible!

The Twist?

To prove you’re moving, you will be asked to track your steps using a platform that FitBit has created (it's so simple!). You can track your steps using:

• A wearable FitBit

• A phone

• A pedometer

• Or a good ole' fashion guess

The platform allows users to input steps manually or makes it even easier with FitBit connectivity.

The Reward?

We are excited by this challenge. It is an opportunity for us to show the Surgeon General how far our Walk With a Doc family reaches, and use this national momentum to our walk's advantage.

To thank you for joining us in this challenge, and to engender a little friendly internal family competition, Walk With a Doc is offering a visit from the founder of WWAD, Dr. David Sabgir - for the chapter that gets the most walkers to participate!

In addition, any chapter or individual that sends in a Walk selfie (please wear a WWAD T-shirt or print out WWAD sign) or tags us in one on Facebook, and answers the question "Why I walk with WWAD?" will be entered to win a $150 gift card to the local grocery store. If any walker is a filmmaker, a video will get your name entered 20 times!

Check it out at this url: or check out St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital’s Facebook page.

Our next Walk With a Doc is scheduled for Saturday, October 15 at the TREC Trail. Meet in the EPC parking lot.