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June is National Accordion Awareness Month Let Us Celebrate Music: ~Author Unknown Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt Country music is three chords and the truth. ~Harlan Howard A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ~Benny Green Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country. ~Edmund G. Brown Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. ~William Green Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera" Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett
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Coming Soon We need your help on everyone’s favorite subject – PARKING! One of the major patient and visitor complaints has been related to parking on campus. We have made real strides since implementing some of the new guidelines but parking still continues to be a major source of patient dissatisfaction. The complaints, and the associated patient survey scores, affect the employee bonus opportunity and our customer’s perception of the service they received while at the hospital. Recently, we have had instances of visitors having to park at the Business and Technology (BAT) Center and Connell’s Village because there were no available spaces on campus. In response to customer feedback, we have reviewed the current parking guidelines for employees, and are in the process of revising the Parking Guidelines policy (see HR Policy 282). The new policy will include changes to campus and off-site parking guidelines for all hospital/contract employees (both on-campus and off-campus), volunteers and Physician Tower tenant employees. The significant changes are outlined below: On March 30th, we began posting a guard at east visitor surface lot (along Airline Highway) in the morning to ensure visitors and patients have a place to park in the surface lot. We have already seen increased numbers of parking spaces for our visitors and patients in this lot. Requests by visitors for a garage exit pass (due to surface lot overflow) have dropped by 45-50 requests per day on peak days. Placement of a guard at this lot will continue in the future. Green “Garage Parking” car decals will be issued to those employees/volunteers who have been authorized to park in the garage and for the tenant employees who are assigned to park in the garage in tenant allocated parking spaces. If you are not authorized to park in the garage, you should park in one of the employee surface lots or at the BAT Center. There are a large number of complaints from patients and visitors about insufficient parking in the garage, and these changes are intended to address and resolve those issues. Hospital and contract employees who are approved by Employee Health to park in the garage due to medical or other conditions must park on the 4th floor or higher. We need to make sure the 2nd and 3rd floors have ample parking for visitors and patients. This change affects a limited number of employees, but every space counts. Red car decals will be issued to offsite employees to make sure they are parking appropriately when on campus and at their offsite locations. Currently, the employees in the Materials Management building and Support Services building are parking at the BAT Center. The offsite departments include:
Blue car decals will be issued to remaining hospital, contract and tenant employees (those not parking in tenant allocated spaces in the garage). These employees should park in the employee surface lots. We will conduct parking audits to make sure all hospital/contract employees (on-campus and off-campus), volunteers, and tenant employees have decals displayed on their vehicles and are parking appropriately. There will be an initial audit and decal distribution conducted in the parking lots as soon as the new car decals are received. The revised parking policy will direct overflow employee parkers (hospital, contract and tenant) to the east BAT Center parking lot (between BAT Center and Airline Highway). Currently, when the two employee surface lots are full, employees overflow to the garage. This change is to ensure ample parking in the garage when the visitor surface lot reaches capacity. Employees arriving for work between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. should not park on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the garage. These employees should park on the 5th floor or higher in the garage or on campus in the employee surface lots. If parking is not available, they should park at the BAT Center. Vehicles may be moved back on campus after 4:00 p.m. to ensure employee safety. The shuttle route will be revised to allow for an increased number of employees parking at the BAT Center in overflow situations.
Employees should not park at Entrance 4. A significant number of employees are parking at the entrance and it is having a negative impact on patients being discharged. We will conduct regular surveys to gauge compliance by employees and to track the availability of visitor/patient parking (for possible future adjustment) at consistent times throughout the day. Security will monitor garage and surface parking and violators will be subject to the hospital’s progressive discipline policy (see HR Policy #218). Notice of parking violations will be forwarded by Security to the employee’s supervisor and to Human Resources. These changes will become effective as soon as the new decals are received (within the next month). In the meantime, please park in the employee designated lots. Those employees required to park at the BAT Center should continue to park at that location. We are aware that the parking situation is difficult for patients and employees alike, and we are working to address parking needs in planning for the new hospital. However, we must still keep in mind that we will continue to serve many patients on this campus over the next several years. Improving parking for our patients and visitors during that time will require your support and cooperation. We know that the employees of Woman’s can accomplish anything - including improving parking satisfaction for our patients and visitors at the current campus!
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Clinic Rocketchix event dates:
Visit Rocketchix.com for more information or to register.VHA Leadership AwardVHA Inc., a national health care alliance, recognized Woman’s Hospital with its 2007 VHA Leadership Award for Operational Excellence for earning recognition as a Magnet hospital. The hospital was honored at VHA’s Leadership Conference in Denver on May 20.
Woman’s Hospital is one of only 13 VHA member hospitals nationwide that
has been designated as a Magnet organization.
WBRZ Channel 2 interviewed Hope Juge, CDC, Wednesay, May 16, concerning the new voluntary quality rating system (QRS) for day care facilities in the Louisiana. It is an optional quality assessment which will help to ensure the safety of children in the state. Susan Moss and one of the Fitness Club members appeared on WAFB Channel 9 on the Friday, May 4 morning show at 6:15 am. Billie Papuchis, personal trainer, and one of our Fitness Club members appeared on WAFB Channel 9 on Friday, May 11 at 6:15 am to recruit racers for the July 28th Rocketchix Triathlon. Pat Fellows and another Rocketchix racer appeared on the May 18th broadcast at 6:15 am to promote the triathlon. The Fitness Club at the Woman's Center for Wellness is one of the presenting sponsors of the race. For information about the race and upcoming clinics, visit rocketchix.com. Cheri Johnson, L&D, appeared on WAFB Channel 9 on Monday, May 14 at 5:45 am and WBRZ Channel 2 on Tuesday, May 15 at 6:45 am to promote Baby Grand. Jodi Conachen, PR, appeared on the 5 pm and 10 pm news broadcast for WBRZ Channel 2 on Thursday, May 17 to promote Baby Grand. Baby Grand was held Saturday, May 19. Jessica Hebert and Charbel Harb appeared on WBRZ Channel 2 Wednesday, May 30 at 5:45 am to promote the Tour of Ponds. |
For
many couples, getting pregnant and having a baby is a struggle.
Since 2001, A Woman's Center for Reproductive Medicine and Woman's
Hospital have been conducting a bi-annual
reunion giving families the opportunity to share the excitement of their
baby with the staff and other families who have undergone similar
struggles and experiences.