RxTraA publication for the staff of Hartford Hospital July 8, 2013 Vol. 69 No. 25

Awards Presented to IOL StaffThe Institute of Living held its an-nual Awards and Recognition Day Ceremony on June 11 in the Com-mons Building.

Arne Welhaven Memorial Award - to Irene Wawrzyniak, APRN

Irene Wawrzyniak with Ann MacGil-lis, infection control nurse at the IOL.

Psychiatrist-in-chief’s Award - to Dr. Joseph Nesta, IOL Medical Services Unit.

Dr. Joseph Nesta with Dr. Hank Schwartz, psychiatrist-in-chief.

Ned Graffagnino MD Honorary Award - to Nelis Bido-Jimenez, case work-er in Child and Adolescent Psych.

Nelis Bido-Jimenez and Dr. Robert Sahl, Child and Adolescent Psych.

Linda J. Stacy Service Excellence Awards - Claribel Diaz-Burgos, ad-ministrative associate II in Geriatric Outpa-tient; Faye Jenkins, unit leader in Geriatrics in the Institute Psychi-atric Group; Migdalia Matos, administrative associate II in Geriat-ric Psychiatry; and An-nMarie Martin, admin-istrative associate II in the Memory Disorder Center.

Connecticut Association of Private Special Educa-tion Facilities Golden Ap-ple Award: Catherine Amodio, special edu-cation master teacher, Grace S. Webb School, Hartford; Dawn Ben-son, school clinician, Webb School, Hart-ford; Jill DeVane, ed-ucation coordinator, Webb School, Hartford; Claudia Stetson, in-structional assistant, Webb School, Hartford;

Kelsey Hale, instructional assis-tant, Webb School, Cheshire; and Kelly Loffredo, instructional assis-tant, Webb School, Cheshire.

Dedicated to Caring Awards: Semo-nea Virgo, PCA, Donnelly 2-North; Rowena Mullings, PAA, Donnelly 2-South; Ida Fisher, PT, Donnelly 3-South.

Linda Richards/June Long Awards: Greg Cukrowski, RN, Donnel-ly 3-North; Elmedina Efendic, RN, Donnelly 3- North; Susan Olander, RN, Donnelly 1-North; Laurie Lom-bardo, RN, Donnelly 3-South.

Above: Service Excellence Award winners, left to right, Claribel Diaz-Burgos, Migdalia Matos, Faye Jenkins and AnnMarie Martin.

Below: Golden Apple Award winners, left to right, Dawn Benson, Catherine Amodio, Jill DeVane and Kikke Levin Gerdner, director of the Webb Schools.

The Marketing Department at Hartford Hospital received five Lamplighter Awards recognizing excellence in health care commu-nications at the annual confer-ence of the New England Society for Healthcare Communications (NESHCo) on May 20 in Newport, Rhode Island.

NESHCo’s Lamplighter Awards were created to recognize excel-lent and exceptional health care communications.

The awards were:

Gold award, internal periodicals- PSAG, the newsletter of the Pa-tient Safety Action Group; written and produced by Annie Emanuelli, marketing communications spe-cialist, with executive editor Dr. Ja-mie Roche.

Gold award, public relations proj-ect - “Campaign to Save Lives: 1,000 New Organ Donors;” coordinated by Amy Hickey, director of market-ing, and Rebecca Stewart, director of media relations.

Silver award, special purpose pub-lications - special edition of RxTra entitled “Hartford Hospital Fire An-niversary: Remembering Lives Lost, Living More Safely With Lessons Learned;” written and designed by Annie Emanuelli.

Award of excellence, internal period-icals - physicians’ newsletter Sey-mour Street Journal; written and produced by Annie Emanuelli, with executive editors Dr. Jeffry Nestler and Jeffrey Flaks.

Award of excellence in writing fea-ture articles - article entitled “Colby Gets A New Heart” which appeared in RxTra, written by former market-ing staff member Karin Diamond.

Regional Emmy

In addition, the Marketing Depart-ment’s joint television production with WFSB, Channel 3 about pa-tient Colby Salerno’s heart trans-plant won a regional Emmy Award for excellence.

Colby Salerno (center) with his par-ents at the Emmy Awards ceremony.

The award was presented June 1 at the 36th Boston-New England Emmy Award Ceremony in Boston.

The episode, “Advancing Medicine: The Colby Salerno Story,” followed Colby’s six-month stay on the 10th floor of Hartford Hospital through his life-saving heart transplant and return home.

Salerno received a standing ovation from the crowd when the award was announced.

Rebecca Stewart, director of media relations, and Nick Dethlefsen, vid-eographer, worked with Channel 3 on the production.

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Marketing Recognized For Excellence in Communications

Former Patients Donate Memory Boxes For Bereaved ParentsSeven members of the Renegade Knights firefight-er motorcycle battalion visited Hartford Hospital on May 28 with a donation of 40 Memory Boxes, hand-made mementos which are given to families of new-borns who die in a hospital.

The Memory Box Program is a national volunteer ef-fort that began in 1998 to provide the boxes to be-reaved parents to acknowledge their child’s life. The boxes are filled with mementos of the child, such as photographs, footprints, wristbands and locks of hair.

The Renegade Knights held a fund raiser and as-sembled the boxes to donate to Hartford Hospital.

Kevin Wells, president of the group, and his wife Kimberly lost a baby last year, and wanted to thank the nurses who made them feel so well cared for.

To date, the Memory Box program has provided more than 113,000 boxes to registered hospitals nationwide.

Each Memory Box is decorated by volunteers who pur-chase the boxes and supplies with their own funds, and then donate the finished boxes to participating hospitals. Bereaved families often cherish the boxes as the only mementos of their baby’s too-brief life.

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Compliance

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Concerns?

If you need to obtain information

about compliance issues or raise

concerns regarding internal and

regulatory practices

or policies, please contact your

supervisor or call the ComplianceLine,

a confidential and toll-free service, at

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HH Wins CT/Israel Collaboration AwardHartford Hospital and Magen David Adom (Israel’s national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service) were named re-cipients of the 2013 Connecticut/Is-rael Collaboration Award.

The award was presented by the Hartford Business Alliance and the Hartford Jewish Federation. It rec-ognizes our work training mem-bers of Magen David Adom.

Several members of Magen David Adom attended training at CESI and with Life Star last year.

Two more paramedics w i l l be coming to Hartford Hospital for training this summer, continuing this important partnership. This will be an annual event.

The award was presented at the third annual Connecticut-Israel Technology Summit, held June 12 at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford.

The summit is held to attract busi-ness leaders, venture capitalists,

entrepreneurs, and academic, gov-ernment and research experts from

Connecticut interested in working with organizations from Israel.

Dr. Michael Drescher, associate chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Hartford Hospital and a member of the Israeli Association for Emergency Medicine; Gary Perl, northeast regional director of American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA); and Burt Klein, AFMDA’s New England representative, accepted the award on behalf of their respective organizations.

Pelletier Receives Award of Excellence From Directors of Volunteer ServicesEileen Pelletier, codirector of Vol-unteer Services, received the Con-necticut Award for Professional Excellence from the Connecticut

Associat ion of Directors of Volunteer Services in H e a l t h c a r e (CADVSH) at its annual meeting on June 19.

The award r e c o g n i z -es members

who have demonstrated extraordi-nary contributions to the advance-ment of health care volunteer management, the Association, and their local health care facility and community.

Pelletier has worked at Hartford Hospital for 24 years. During that time, she has developed, imple-mented and shared award winning volunteer programs.

Pelletier is the immediate past president of the New England As-sociation of Directors of Healthcare Volunteer Services.

She has served on the CADVSH board, and has participated in planning and hosting several of its conferences.

She has also presented workshops for CADVSH.

Pelletier is active with her sons’ school committees, boy scouts, and religious education activities. She’s also a pet therapy volunteer at HH with her dog, Buddy.

Happening at Hartford Hospital

Questions or comments about RxTra? Contact editor Annie Emanuelli at aemanuelli@harthosp.org or 860-972-2199

N-95 Respirator Fit TestingThere will be N-95 Respira-tor Fit Testing in the ERD, 4th Floor on:

• Monday, July 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Tuesday, July 9, 6:30-10:30 a.m.

• Wednesday, July 17, 1-5 p.m.

• Thursday, July 18,10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Employees who are required to do a yearly N-95 Respirator Fit test will see their due date in HealthStream as their anniversary date of starting at the hos-pital. Please ensure you meet all of the requirements before getting Fit Tested.

Summer F i t n e s s Classes A new six-

week set of fitness classes will start at the Barney Fitness Center Monday, July 8 and will run until August 16.

Summer Boot Camp: Monday-Wednes-day-Friday at 5:30-6:45 a.m., 12-12:45 p.m. or 4:45-5:30 p.m. ($108). Meet the challenge! 18 individualized fat burning workouts: tone muscle, improve fitness and coordination; lose body fat, drop inches and improve balance. Condition-ing for every level of fitness; nutrition consulting and diet recommendations.

Step & Stride: Tuesday and Friday at 3:45-4:30 p.m. ($72). This class is for any-one with limited time. This full-body workout challenges all the major mus-cle groups while giving you a great met-abolic workout. If you are looking for a challenge, this class is for you!

DVD Class: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. FREE! Insanity, P90X, Zumba Fitness.

Class space is reserved with fee pay-ment - first come, first served. For more information, e-mail fitness@harthosp.org or call 2-3077.

$6 Sale in HH CafeteriaHCI Fundraising brings their huge $6 sale to the Hartford Hospital Cafeteria on Thursday, July 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 1,000 unique and care-fully selected accessories and gifts from around the world…there is something for everyone. Sponsored by the United Way Committee of Hartford Hospital.

Paintings & Profundities in Newington Thursday It will be Christmas in July with “Paint-ings & Profundities,” Thursday, July 11, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Newington Campus (Curtis Building, 5th floor connector). It features decorative paintings on slate, wood, metal, furniture, children’s stools, hand-smocked dresses for little girls. For more info, contact Christy Wall at sea-wall@wall2wall.us. Proceeds benefit our United Way campaign.

Employees Council Monthly Open MeetingThe open month-ly meeting of the Em-ployees Council will be Thursday, July 11 at 12 noon in the Spe-cial Dining Room of the HH cafeteria. All staff members are welcome to attend our open monthly meetings. You can con-tact the EC anytime at 860-545-3904, at employeecouncil@harthosp.org, or check the EC page on the Intranet.

Free Outdoor Movies At Farmington ValleyHartford Hospital has partnered with the Farmington Valley Shoppes in Can-ton for an outdoor movie series, offering free films every Saturday in July and Au-gust at sunset in the main parking area near the barn. Pre-show entertainment from 6-8 p.m. This week’s movie (Satur-day, July 13) is Shark Tale.

Orientation Class For New Cancer Patients Offered Twice a Month Become familiar with the Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center, staff, and the various supportive resources that are available to help you throughout your cancer treat-ment at an orientation class on Tuesday, July 16 from 9:30-10:30 a.m., in the Tay-lor Conference Room in the Helen & Har-ry Gray Cancer Center. Registration is not required, but it is preferred. Please call Cancer Connect at 860-545-6000 or e-mail cancerconnect@harthosp.org. The class-es will be offered twice a month.

Red Cross Blood Drive At IOL July 16Our next Red Cross Blood Drive is being sponsored by the IOL on Tuesday, July 16, 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the Clark Social Room/Insti-tute of Living. Advanced registration is preferred. To register visit www.redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED-CROSS. For more information contact Pe-ter Adelsberger a 5-7511 or padelsb@har-thosp.org.

Retirement Tea July 19 For Nat Kennedy

Join us for a retirement tea in honor of Nat Ken-nedy’s retirement on Friday, July 19, 8:30-10 a.m. in the Special Dining Room at Hart-ford Hospital. Nat has worked at Hartford Hospital for the past

13 years in the Information Technology Services Department as a network engi-neer, and will be retiring July 19. Please plan to stop in to wish Nat best of luck in his retirement!