Health Risk Assessment or HRA – what is it?

Family Health Manager (FHM) is an online tool available on the FirstLight Health System website that can help you manage your overall health, get you connected to local resources, and is a platform to explore health improvement options.

One component of the FHM is the Health Risk Assessment or HRA.  This is a self-administered, confidential assessment where you answer various questions about your health from 10 different categories including:  sleep, nutrition, activity, well-being, medical, pain, alcohol, stress, smoking and weight.  The assessment gives you an overall health score out of 100.  You are also able to see how you scored in each of the 10 categories individually and access resources related to those categories.

Take the *HRA today to get your personalized health score!

https://health.weliahealth.org/

*This is also one of the components of the Health Milestones Challenge.

WELLkids Program

WellnessFirst just finished up a 4-week wellness program for kids at Trailview School grades 3-6.  Throughout the weeks kids were able to try a variety of activities such as stilts, pogo sticks, jump ropes, hula hoops, yoga, and exercises using elastic bands.  The group also had a great nutrition lesson each class from Danna Woods. RD, LD.  Kids learned about whole grains, how to choose a healthy snack, the benefits of buying local produce, and sampled a groovy green smoothie containing fruits and spinach (and yes! they loved it!)

The kids got a give-a-way each week that they could use to be healthy at home.  They received: a jump rope, water bottle, a pedometer, an elastic band and lots of info on physical activity and healthy eating.

FirstLight partnered with Mora Community Education to provide this program.

Here are some pics of our WELLkids.

Danna-whole grain Kids with green smoothies kids with hula hoops-group shot

Employee Wellness Update

HEALTH MILESTONES CHALLENGE: How are you doing with the Health Milestones challenge?  Many employees have turned in their COMPLETED sheets already!  Great job!  This challenge ends on Friday December 4th.  Turn in your completed sheets to Deb Wright in Wellness.

EMPLOYEE WELLNESS SURVEY:  The employee wellness survey is still open for two more days!  This survey will close on Friday October 30th.  We have 66 surveys completed so far and have gained some great feedback to help make 2016 a great year for improving employee health.

Thank you for your input!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B7TWKZS

Coin Drive update-only 12 days to go!

Coin drive pic of large container

Keep a Child Warm Coin Drive Update:

Here is what we have collected so far for our coin drive. A close guess is around $25.00.  We still have a long way to go to reach our $500 goal!   The blue cans will be out until the week of November 9th.  Locations of the cans:  rehab, business office, WellnessFirst office, lab, surgery, Mora clinic (Wendy’s desk), PC clinic, Hinckley clinic, IP floor by the water station.  Employees are welcome to drop their coins in any can at any time.  To put things into perspective, if each employee contributed just over $1.00, we would reach our goal!  THANK YOU to those that have contributed so far.

If your department or area would like a can, please let Deb Wright know! dwright@welia.org

FLHS Referral Specialists

Can now be reached by dialing ONE extension: x6285

Patients can also reach our referral specialists by choosing option 3 when dialing in on any of our numbers:
Mora: 320-679-1313, Option#3
Pine City: 320-629-7505, Option#3
Hinckley: 320-384-6189, Option#3

Referral Specialists are available from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

National Healthcare Engineering Week!

National Healthcare Engineering Week 2015 graphic

 

Please be sure to recognize our Facility Operation Staff as we celebrate National Healthcare Engineering this week. They are important members of the health care team.

 

Because of all they do, there is power; running water; and a clean, comfortable, and safe healing environment for all who walk through the doors.

What you may think is ordinary is truly extraordinary, because without their efforts, the doors of our facilities would not be open.

 

Halogen: Goal Update Instructions

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When employees log into Halogen, they are on the home screen. To update goals, click on the “My Performance” option.

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When on the “My Performance” tab, choose Goals.
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The Employee goals will be listed, they can click on the name of the goal, a new screen will pop up and they can update the goal throughout the year.

If they choose the Evaluations tab, they will be able to see past evaluations.