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Accolades
Community Medical Center in Falls City Breaks Ground
Community Medical Center in Falls City, Nebraska held a ground breaking for their new 56,000 square foot, $21 Million hospital expansion. For the complete story, and photographs of the groundbreaking from the Falls City Journal, please click here:http://www.nhanet.org/news/pdfs/cmc.pdf
State Hospice Honors Go to Columbus Women
COLUMBUS -- A social worker who assisted in creating a local advanced care directive and a volunteer who has given of her time to help those facing end of life issues have been honored for their contributions. Lisa Weber-Kohler and Lucy Wacha, both of Columbus, were recognized by the Nebraska Hospice and Palliative Care Partnership at its annual banquet on April 2. Read the complete story in the Columbus Telegram here: http://www.columbustelegram.com/articles/2008/04/08/news/local/doc47fb9c972b0a4781208893.txt
Henderson Healthcare Recognized for Compassion to Employees
Henderson, Nebraska
OAK BROOK, Ill., March 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- Ninety five employers, representing 38 states plus Washington D. C., are being recognized by The Compassionate Friends for showing extra sensitivity to bereaved employees following the death of a child. The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is the nation's largest self-help bereavement organization with 600 chapters serving all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Nominated by the persons they have directly helped, these employers are receiving Compassionate Employer Recognition in 2008 for going above and beyond the normal policies of most companies in helping their employees when the death of a child occurred.
Criteria for Compassionate Employer Recognition include, but are not limited to:
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Allowing additional time off without loss of benefits.
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Allowing flexible work schedules and assignments.
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Allowing leeway in job performance standards.
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Fostering an environment of mutual support among coworkers.
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Providing professional grief counseling, human resources support, or information regarding self-help bereavement organizations.
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Other policies and practices that go beyond what is normal in the community.
This is the eighth year for recognition of employers, with recipients jumping from three the first year, to the current 95 for 2008. Employers being recognized range from small companies with as few as four employees to large companies with as many as 10,000.
Nebraska Methodist College Recognized for Community Service
The Josie Harper Campus, Omaha, Nebraska
NMC Earns National Recognition For Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service named Nebraska Methodist College – The Josie Harper Campus to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. The health professions college was honored at the annual meeting of the American Council on Education in San Diego. Nebraska Methodist College was recognized for its body of community service work over the past year, including Habitat for Humanity trips to Laredo, Texas, and Tacoma, Washington, as well as a hurricane relief trip to Biloxi, Mississippi, where student and faculty members partnered with the Salvation Army to build a home. Other service activities included the provision of health assessment and education for Omaha Housing Authority’s residents, Omaha Ronald McDonald House Respite Care Program, ACE Southern Sudan Program and Fourth Grade Learning Day.
Gage County Immunication Clinic Awarded
conducted by Beatrice Community Hospital staff
The Gage County Immunization Clinic has been recognized for exceeding the Immunization Healthy People 2010 goal of having at least 90 percent of children seen at the clinic completely immunized at 2 years of age.
The Nebraska Health and Human Services and the Nebraska Immunization Program presented the clinic with a certificate. Gage County was one of only five clinics, out of 41 public immunization clinics in the state of Nebraska, to reach the 90 percent level during 2007.The recent assessment of immunization records in the Gage County Immunization Clinic shows that 92 percent of the children the clinic sees were up-to-date at 2 years of age.
Performance is measured against the National Immunization Survey and toward the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2010 goal of 90 percent. The NIS for 2007 has the state of Nebraska at 74.9 percent of 2-year-olds completely immunized. Immunizations required are DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), Polio, MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella), Hib (Haemophilius influenzae type b), Hepatitis B and Varicella.
Norma Lou Cook, registered nurse and health promotions coordinator for Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center, organizes the monthly Gage County Immunization Clinic with help from hospital employees, Gage County Extension Club members, trained lay volunteers and professional nurse volunteers.
Cook said Beatrice and Gage County residents should be proud of the immunization recognition.
“Immunization is one of the most important ways parents can protect their children against serious diseases,” Cook said.
The clinics are held on the third Monday of each month from 9 a.m.-noon and the third Tuesday and Thursday of the month from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Clinics are held at Parkview Conference Center located at 1216 S. Eighth St. in Beatrice.
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