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| Volume 5 | Issue 39 | October 11, 2016 |
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Bon Secours is Committed to You!
It's National Work & Family Month, and Bon Secours is committed to offering many ways to help you and your family be your best.
Caregiving can be a stressful profession. It's often challenging to balance the demands of a high-pressure workplace with the demands of a family. We know that financial concerns bring added pressures, too.
That's why Bon Secours features a variety of classes to help you manage the stress, including our popular Stress Free Now program. We offer classes through our Bon Secours Institute, School at Work and STRIDE programs to help you advance, as well as tuition reimbursement and scholarship opportunities for your family. And we are pleased that our benefits options have been nationally recognized by Working Mother, AARP and other leading organizations.
During October, let's step back and reflect on how our health system can support employees in their journey towards health and wholeness.
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Did you Know?
Raising a family, managing expenses and saving money can be difficult. We offer a variety of discounts in our Benefits Books for Richmond and Hampton Roads.
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Unplug, Unwind to Care
for Yourself First
Jeff Doucette, Regional Vice President, Clinical Services & Chief Nurse Executive for Bon Secours Hampton Roads, has done extensive research on workplace stress as part of an executive fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
 "As health care providers, we're very good at taking care of other people, but we typically do not do a good job of taking care of ourselves," he notes. "Even if you're not taking care of the patients directly, you're taking care of someone who is.
"We're all subject to the pressures that exist around outcomes and providing great experience. Stress comes from multiple different places."
But what should you do if you're feeling that stress? Doucette says to give yourself permission to step back for a while and just "be."
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"What I try to do is get employees to flip that mindset that they have to take care of everybody else before they take care of themselves."
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"We feel like we have to be on 24/7, and I think in some respects we've forgotten how to just be still. I think the ultimate way you can achieve that balance between work and home is to be aware and to be mindful."
Doucette appreciates the Cleveland Clinic's Stress Free Now program offered by Bon Secours Wellness and tries to do a guided meditation every day. He also has given himself permission to unwind after work hours, not checking his phone during dinner or before bed.
"Change it to actually, I will take better care of others if I take care of myself first."
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We Celebrate Our Diverse Workforce
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"If you walk into Bon Secours' front door, you will be met by different people from all over the world. We begin our days with an overhead prayer, and they've asked people who speak different languages to do that. It's beautiful to hear so many different languages praying and to know that we all have the same goal."
--- Lucy Kooiman, Director, Behavioral Medicine, Maryview Medical Center
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As a Catholic health care system, Bon Secours is called to be an inclusive community of service that encourages diversity and affirms all persons and their unique gifts.
As the United States becomes more ethnically and racially diverse, health care systems and providers must respond to an increasingly heterogeneous patient base. Knowing how to serve people with different life experiences, health beliefs and religious beliefs is therefore both a business and ministry imperative for Bon Secours.
At Bon Secours, "diversity" refers to all of the many gifts, talents and perspectives that our employees bring to us; and it speaks to and includes everyone. "Inclusion" refers to creating and fostering an environment where all of our employees' gifts, talents, and perspectives are fully valued, respected and leveraged to advance our mission and ministry.
We are proud of the many accomplishments we have made to advance and fulfill this vision. Some of them include:
 | Recognized by Working Mother magazine as one of the "25 Best Companies for Multicultural Women" | | Named LGBT Health Equity leader by the Human Rights Campaign for the third year in a row | | Committed to hiring Veterans and awarded the 2014 Veterans Employment Transition (VET) Award | | Established Diversity & Inclusion Councils across the health system |
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Make the Most of Social Security
Did you know that more than 60 percent of Americans do not receive the maximum benefit they deserve from Social Security? We don't want you to be one of them. That's why we're offering this special seminar for employees to learn more about Social Security choices.
Click here for seminar dates in Richmond and Hampton Roads.
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Let Us Hear From You
 Do you have a story idea for
Good News? We want your stories and photos. Please send to Dawn Trivette.
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Is Money on Your Mind?
 Check out these resources to
relieve your financial stress
Because Bon Secours is guided by a philosophy of holistic well-being, we consider financial health and security essential. Here's some ways we support you: Just Wage
In 2015, Bon Secours Virginia again increased its minimum wage, what we call a just wage, to be 51 percent higher than minimum wage. Employees making $11.22 per hour or less are entitled to a credit on a Bon Secours Medical Plan and child-care subsidies at any of the Family Centers (dependent on available space). Tuition Reimbursement/Prepayment
PRN employees qualify for tuition reimbursement if they have averaged at least 16 hours of work per pay period for the six pay periods immediately preceding the submission of the complete Tuition Assistance Application. Full-time employees are eligible for $5,000 for undergrad and graduate classes; part-time and PRN are eligible for $2,500 annually, undergrad and graduate. PRN employees must work an average of 16 hours per pay period during course dates to be eligible for reimbursement. Book fees are reimbursed by providing receipts. Tuition prepayment is offered, including book fees, to employees making less than $11.22 per hour after 90 days of employment. Employees with PRN status are not eligible for prepayment. From IRIS or bonsecours.com, go to ezAccess/AskHR or call the Human Resources Operations Center (HROC) locally 804-887-7600 or toll-free 1-855-336-7600. Crisis Funds
Richmond and Hampton Roads provide crisis funds for employees. In Richmond, contact your EAP (804-342-1501). In Hampton Roads, contact the Foundation office (757-889-5900). Wallet Wellness Challenge
This six-week online class offers down-to-earth advice to help anyone save more money. Access the 30-minute sessions through our webinar archives. Want to learn more about how to improve your financial well-being? Call your EAP:
Richmond: 804-342-1501 or 844-371-6767 Hampton Roads: 757-398-2374 or 800-327-3257 |
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Help a Colleague with Values in Action
 You never know what's going on in someone's private life. Unforeseen circumstances such as unemployment, illness, house fires or unexpected emergencies can strain a family's finances. That can make it difficult - or impossible to have a happy holiday season. Bon Secours Virginia's Values in Action offers an opportunity for employees to help their colleagues in need feel the hope, celebration and spirit of the season. Employees, individually or as a group, can sign up to sponsor a family. And if you --- or a coworker --- need a little help this year, we can make that happen.  Employees requesting help must have a child 13 years or younger residing in their home. The Bon Secours Family Centers team annually organizes the program in partnership with our Employee Assistance Program. Review this flier for more information.
The deadline to request assistance
or sponsor a family is Dec. 2.
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