1. health and fitness
2. weight loss

>> DECEMBER 26, 2014
Southern Ohio
Medical Center’s
Employee Newsletter
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays
from Southern Ohio Medical Center!
PAGE 2 | SOMC/NATIONWIDE HOST PEDS CARDIOLOGY CLINICS
PAGE 3 | IRS STATEMENTS FOR PRESCRIPTION COSTS
PAGE 4 | GET FIT AND STAY FIT—FOREVER
Inside
this Issue
1) Calendar
2) Organizational News & Updates
Hunter, MSCU
3) Health & Wellness
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Get Fit and Stay Fit—Forever!
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SOMC, Nationwide Host Peds Cardiology Clinics
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How to Avoid Overeating this Holiday Season
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Donate Blood to the American Red Cross
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Protecting Yourself and Others from Illness
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Check Out Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo
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Meltdown Alumni Challenge Winners
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Lacey Wins Coveted “Ugly Sweater” Trophy
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IRS Statements for Prescription Costs
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Preventing Falls In-Service
4) Classifieds
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Editor
• Stephanie Merrifield
Community Relations
Designer
• Brock Volio Community Relations
Contributors
• Eric Kephas
Community Relations
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December/January
Event Calendar
December 29
January 13
December 30
January 15
Jewelry Extravaganza Sale
Friends Center
7 am to 4:30 pm
Jewelry Extravaganza Sale
ED/Waller Corridor
7 am to 4:30 pm
Preventing Falls In-Service
ED Room 3
1 pm
Breast Cancer Screening
Breast Center
9 am to 12 pm
January 5
Blood Drive
ED Room 4
9 am to 2:30 pm
Employee Birthdays
December 26
Sheila Bowles
Jill Byler
Maryellen Elliott
Pamela Gambill
Mildred Robinson
Nancy Sparks
December 27
Raeann Bays
Rebecca Boggs
Kristen Broadhead
Melissa Magnatta
Claudia Wilburn
December 28
Kathi Briggs
Bryan Craft
Kristy Fowler
Peggy Harcha
Donna Holbrook
Ike Murphy
Karen Rickey
Diane Ruby-Dillow
Lisa Whisman
December 29
Deborah Adams
Bonnie Caudill
Barbara Culbertson
Adam Dorning
Jeffery Josey
Jonathan Logan
Jennifer Moore
Corey Sammons
December 30
Anne Cantrell
Jennifer Geyer
Debra Madison
Lorinda Pelphrey
Kelley Smith
Amber Ward
December 31
Farryn Bussa
Natalie Carter
Tambra Dodds
Lyndsey Harris
Nathan Montavon
January 1
Stephanie Carter
Tyler Mains
Pamela McCleese
Jessica O’Connor
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Organizational
News & Updates
SOMC, Nationwide Host
Peds Cardiology Clinics
Southern Ohio Medical Center is partnering with Nationwide
Children’s Hospital to host Pediatric Cardiology Clinics
on the first Tuesday of every month.
As part of this service, they will be providing physician ordered
screenings for infants, children and adolescents. Screenings will include:
EKGs; ECHOs; evaluation of murmurs; evaluation of chest pain and
dizziness, with possible cardiovascular causes; cardiology clearance for
school sports participation; and follow-up visits for cardiac patients.
In observance of the
holiday, the SOMC
Employee Pharmacy
will close early Dec. 24,
with open hours from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m.; they will
be closed all day Dec.
25. They will resume
normal hours Dec. 26. If
you have any questions,
please call ext. 8101.
The clinic is run by Dr. Kerry Rosen, the director of Outpatient Services
at Nationwide Children’s Heart Center. The clinics will take place at
SOMC Heart and Vascular Services, and appointments can be made
through Nationwide Children’s by calling 614-722-6657.
Donate Blood to the American Red Cross
SOMC and the American Red Cross will
have no fever, sore throat or flu like symptoms,
partner to host a blood drive open to hospital
have no active cold symptoms, and have not
employees and the community from 9
had major surgery recently. Donors must also
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 5 in Room 4 of the
bring a photo ID or their ARC donor card.
Education Building on the Main Campus.
Please eat a good meal and drink plenty
All participants and blood types are welcome
of non-caffeinated, non-alcoholic fluids
and encouraged to donate. Those wishing to
before and after donating! To schedule your
participate must be at least 17 years old, weigh at
appointment, visit www.redcrossblood.
least 110 pounds, feel generally well and healthy,
org (enter SOMC) or call ext. 8670.
Check Out Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo
SOMC is partnering with the Columbus
link, then logging into the site with the
Zoo and Aquarium to allow employees to
username (southernohmc) and password
purchase tickets to the winter Wildlights
(takota): https://shop.accesso.com/
exhibit at a discounted price.
clients/ columbuszoo/affiliate?m=1375.
Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased
Tickets are non-refundable and valid through
by copying and pasting the following
Jan. 4. If you have any questions, call ext. 8118.
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Organizational News & Updates continued
Lacey Wins Coveted “Ugly Sweater” Trophy
For the second year running, Tim Lacey, manager of SOMC Clinical
Information Systems, has been awarded the CIS Department’s
coveted “Ugly Sweater” Trophy. Though, technically, Tim was
not wearing an ugly sweater, his festive candy-cane suit more
than fit the bill in terms of “ugly” and “holiday-themed.”
Congrats, Tim! We hope you showcase your award proudly!
IRS Statements
for Prescription Costs
Preventing Falls
In-Service
To be HIPAA compliant, beginning Jan. 1,
SOMC will host an in-service on “Preventing
2015, the SOMC Outpatient Pharmacy will
Falls” from 1 to 2 p.m. Jan. 13 in Room 3 of the
require a signature for each patient needing
Education Building on the Main Campus.
an IRS statement for prescription costs. This
is in reference to the amount one has spent
The in-service will be led by Rose Netzer, vice
on prescriptions. Please note that the form
president of Clinical Services at Horizon Health.
must be signed by the patient; an employee
Professionals and community members are
cannot sign for a spouse of child that is 18
invited to attend. RSVP is not required. For more
year or older. The statement will be released
information, please call Erica at ext. 6845.
once the form has been signed and returned.
For more information, please call ext. 8101.
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Health & Wellness
To better meet our goals of helping employees
get healthy and stay healthy, SOMC will
proudly offer a new weight loss challenge for
2015 called ForeverFit. The year-long challenge,
which will focus on gradual, sustainable
weight loss, will begin the week of Jan. 12 and
run through the end of December 2015.
“As we continue our organizational-wide
wellness journey, we have decided to make a
conscious shift toward supporting programs that
provide sustained health and wellness effects
for our employees,” April Sanders, manager
of Employee Health and Wellness, said.
Cost of participation is
free to all employees.
Registration can be
completed beginning Jan.
12 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Monday through
Friday in the Employee
Health and Wellness
Office (Suite 307A of the
Waller Building). Night
shift registration hours
will be offered from 9
p.m. to 4 a.m. Jan. 13 and
15. Offsite registration
will be completed on
a scheduled basis. For
more information,
please call ext. 8432.
Sanders explained that, though the SOMC
Employee Meltdown has been popular in
years past, the challenge places an unwanted
emphasis on rapid weight loss over a short period
of time with no plan for sustaining results. In
reality, people who lose weight gradually and
steadily (at about one to two pounds per week)
are more successful at keeping weight off.
“Year after year, we see returning participants
weigh-in for the Meltdown at their beginning
weight from the previous year, or even higher;
obviously, this is not healthy,” Sanders said.
“SOMC’s commitment to wellness is a long-term
investment, which is why we want to use ForeverFit
to promote a sustainable lifestyle change.”
Employees can choose to participate in
ForeverFit either individually or as a team.
To be eligible for prizes, participants are required to:
•
Weigh in monthly via an Employee
Health and Wellness representative.
•
Attend a minimum of four education
sessions, which will be held once a month
throughout the year. The education sessions
will cover a variety of wellness topics and
participants who attend four education
sessions will receive a free T-shirt.
•
Demonstrate gradual weight loss
over the year. (Crash diets cannot be
used at year-end to win prizes.)
Highlights of the challenge include:
•
A paid day off will be awarded to the
individual with the greatest percentage of
weight loss during the first three quarters
of the challenge (March, June, September).
•
At the end of the program, the individual
with the most weight loss and the
individual with the highest percentage
of weight loss will each receive $500.
•
A FitBit fitness tracker will be awarded to
each member of the two winning teams
with the most weight loss and to the
highest percentage of weight loss.
•
Participants will also be eligible to receive
free personal training sessions, wellness
coaching, free consults with SOMC
dieticians, and many other benefits.
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Health & Wellness continued
How to Avoid Overeating this Holiday Season
No matter what holidays you celebrate this season, there is one thing that’s almost
always involved – food, and lots of it. Family feasts are a holiday tradition, and they
can make it difficult to maintain healthy eating habits. If you’re not careful, your
efforts to shed unwanted weight – or at least avoid putting more on – during the
winter months can be undone by a barrage of candy, eggnog and pumpkin pie.
Here are some tips to help you avoid over-indulgence:
•
Don’t arrive to a holiday dinner on an empty stomach! You may think that skipping a meal
prior to the feast will allow you to splurge, but it will actually just cause you to overeat and
consume more calories than you would have if you’d eaten something beforehand.
•
Offer to bring a healthy dish. Not only does it keep you from showing up empty-handed,
but it makes sure there’s something on the menu you can eat without feeling guilty.
•
Meltdown Alumni
Challenge Winners
Congratulations go out to
SOMC employees Amanda
Dummitt, Cheryl Kantz,
and Ruth Jones who lost
78, 74.4 and 31 pounds
(respectively) via the
2014 SOMC Meltdown
Alumni Challenge. We
are so proud of your
determination and the
results you’ve achieved
throughout the year!
Each one of your are
inspirational and we hope
you continue to improve
upon and sustain your
health-and-wellness
journeys in the new year.
Avoid excess alcohol, and don’t sit within arm’s length of the snacks. The more you
take in before the meal, the less you can consume once the main course is ready.
•
•
Select small portions. It’s all about moderation, so don’t feel like you need to load down your plate.
Eat slowly! Take small bites, chew slowly and enjoy the meal. Not only will this help you
savor the taste, but it takes about 20 minutes for your brain to realize that you’re full.
•
Leave the table when you’re finished. If you linger at the table, you’ll
be tempted to continue eating even if you’re not hungry.
Protecting Yourself and Others from Illness
The cold and flu season has arrived, and
•
Employees with mild respiratory symptoms,
SOMC employees are reminded to put
such as sniffling and a runny nose, should
themselves first when it comes to illness.
wear a surgical mask while at work as a
courtesy to patients and co-workers.
The following precautions can be used
to help protect you, your co-workers, and
To reduce the spread of infection,
patients during this cold season:
appropriate hygiene should be observed:
•
•
Do not report to work if you have symptoms
of a contagious illness, such as diarrhea,
vomiting, or a fever of 100.4 or greater
•
(without any respiratory symptoms).
Employees who develop a fever of 100.4
or greater should not report to work.
•
•
•
Wash your hands often during the day
and after coughing or sneezing.
Always cover your cough/sneeze
with a tissue or your sleeve.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Frequently wipe down used and shared
If you are already at work, stop your
workspaces, such as computers, phones,
patient-care activities, don a facemask,
and countertops, with Sani-wipes.
notify supervision, and promptly seek
treatment. Please remain off work for a
If you have any concerns, please contact
minimum of 24 hours after your fever
Employee Health and Wellness at ext. 8021.
has broken to ensure the virus is gone.
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Weekly Beat Classifieds
miscellaneous
Antique round oak (veneer
top) pedestal kitchen table.
Asking $200 but will consider
all reasonable offers. Has
small damaged area on veneer
top. Contact 740-352-0483 if
interested or for pictures.
12 setting of Johann Haviland
(bavaria germany) blue garland
fine china. Includes sugar/cream
set, gravy boat, (and add in
any other pieces u have w set).
Great condition. Asking $150.00
but will consider all reasonable
offers. Contact 740-352-0483 if
interested or for pictures.
$200.00 Call 776-2046 and leave
message.
NEW custom made strapless
wedding dress. Crystal beading.
High low. Size 12. $500. Call or
text Kelli 740-707-7646 for pics.
Brand New Brown 4 XT Coveralls
$ 50. Please call 820-8803.
Great Christmas Gift!!! A
KitchenAid 4.5qt. 300 Watt 10
Speed Mixer (stand model)
with additional Bowl.. color
Silver Metallic. still in box price
$269.96, w/tax of $19.57, 289.53.
Priced at Belk’s Dept. Store,
approx $349., or more. call 353Vintage
chairs
(may
be 0549 and leave name & number
considered
hitchcock)
with if no answer.
rush seats and stenciling. Set
of 4. Great condition. Asking 2 tickets to the Buckeye Country
$100 for set but will consider Superfest at the Ohio Stadium
all reasonable offers. Contact (The Horseshoe) in Columbus
740-352-0483 if interested or for Ohio. Blake Shelton, Rascal Flatts,
pictures.
Lee Brice, Tyler Farr and Cassadee
Pope. Tickets are General
Standard size 7ft pool table Admission. (front of the stage).
electric blue cloth. Claw feet Saturday June 20, 2015. $550.00
solid wood. Call 740-464-1746 for both tickets. That is what I
will send pics
paid, just can’t go now. Still have
the receipt to show. Would make
Sunquest pro-16s tanning bed excellent Christmas gift. 740-727by wolff excellent condition 3936
$500.00 Call 740-821-7829 leave
message if no answer ,will email Scrub Tops and Bottoms: 10 Small
pictures upon request.
tops- All different colors, patterns,
and brands. Some barely worn
Huffy Girls 10 speed bike -$25 for all. 2 Medium topsexcellent condition $40.00 call Both Navy blue -$5 for both. 5
740 821-7829leave message if no pants- Smalls or fit like smalls. 2
answer
navy blue, orange, grey, and red
-$15 for all. NEW with tags navy
Teeter Hangup EP 960 Premium blue scrub set- Jockey brand- size
Inversion
Table.
Includes Large. -$25 for set. Please text
Acupressure Nodes, Lumbar 740-222-4413 for pictures or if
Bridge, & DVD with stretch & interested.
strength routines. Purchased 2
years ago with minimum use. 24” gas logs for use with natural
gas. Only used occasionally. $50 bedrooms. $600 a month, $200
740-352-2770
Deposit, Month to Month Lease;
Water, Sewage and trash paid,
motor vehicles
ternate would be responsible
1995 Ford F150 Crew Cab, Custom for Gas Heat and Electric. No
built by Centurion, Red w/ grey smoking and No Pets allowed,
interior, 351 V8, Auto, 210k miles, for questions, pictures and apt,
New exhaust. $4,000 or best please call 740-935-3955.
offer. (740) 352-6888
Two bedroom home, West
2008 Toyota Corolla LE, Silver, Portsmouth/Carey’s Run area,
interior/grey, 31,000 miles; Air for rent with full unfinished
Conditioning; AM/FM Radio/ basement and large family room
CD Player; 4-Wheel ABS Brakes; that could be converted into
Passenger Airbag; Side Head a third bedroom; large fenced
Curtain/Front Side Airbags; in yard. $450.00/month plus
Power Exterior Mirrors; Power $450.00 deposit. Must provide
Door Locks; Power Windows; references and be willing to
Vehicle Anti-Theft; Cruise; Power complete background check. If
Sunroof.
Excellent condition, interested please call 357-4157.
$10,495.00, nice car for student
or work, 354-3971.
For Rent or Sale: 1328 Mound
Street, Portsmouth. Nice 2
pets
bedroom, 1 bath, cottage – all
Shi tzu puppies, full blood, no appliances (including washer/
papers. Will be almost 6 Weeks dryer), deck, fenced yard, rear
old on Christmas. 5 females, parking in covered carport. Rent:
multiple coloring, can send $550 per month (includes water/
pictures if requested. Both sewage/trash); Sell: $49,900.
parents on site, Minford area. Call (740) 935-1164. (I do allow
$275.00 Text 740-352-2921 or Call pets, additional $20 per month)
740-776-4466
Rent a room in a safe, quiet,
3 dachshund hound puppies upscale
neighborhood
in
$100 each 1 brown male puppy 1 Wheelersburg.
Housemates
male dapple puppy and 1 female screened for your safety. $500
dapple puppy. Will be ready in 5 per month. $700 per month for
weeks. Contact 7404643231
master with private bath. House
offers shared kitchen, dining, and
real estate
living room. Laundry hookup
1648 1/2 5th Street, Portsmouth. available. Call 740-464-6703.
2 Bedroom, 1 bathroom upstairs
apartment close to Shawnee wanted
State University, this apartment Looking for an apartment sized
has living area, large walk dryer or stackable dryer. Please
in closets in bathroom and call Debbie at (740) 935-1654
bedroom, Large eat in kitchen
with appliances, pantry and
balcony, hard wood flooring
in living area, hallway, and
Classified Guidelines
Classified ad submissions
must be sent via an SOMC
e-mail account to merrifis@
somc.org. Items submitted
through any other e-mail
server will not be accepted.
Ads must be submitted by 3
p.m. Wednesday and will be
listed for three weeks beginning
each Friday morning.
No more than five items may
be listed at a time and work
extensions may not be listed
as a telephone contact. Ads that are considered
solicitation, or the selling or
offering of goods or services
not pertaining to or sponsored
by SOMC, may not be listed.