NACC Week of 1/23/23

Morning Huddle: Every Tuesday and Thursday

https://mnachc.zoom.us/j/8029150113

!!Staff Shoutouts!!

  • Shout-out to Erin Hawker for always being a positive presence around the clinic.

  • Shout-out to outreach for always having your finger on the pulse of what folks need to be the most safe while facing many barriers.

  • Shout-out to the front desk for always keeping it fun!

  • Shout-out to Mr. Travis for pitching in around the clinics.  When we need someone tall, we know who to call.

  • Shout out to Amber S. (medical assistant) for all of her hard work and willingness to help out.

    January NACCaversaries:

    • Dr. Rabie - 12 years

    • Kassi C. - 12 years

    • Moriah J. - 8 years

    • Julie W. - 8 years

    • Jace G. - 5 years

    • Gregg H. - 4 years

    • Mike S. - 1 year

    • Paige O. - 1 year

All Staff Updates this Week

  • Boxes: Due to limited Ops staff, we are asking staff to break down their own boxes and place in the following areas:

    • Recycling Dump outside of the break room door (don’t lock yourself out!)

    • In a recycling bin

    • In DT Space (Ask Johanna for location)

    • Do NOT place boxes in front of the break room door. This is an emergency exit.

  • Updated 401k information for 2023

    • match increased to 4%, when you allocate 5%

    • vesting immediately

  • Staff Party: February 24th. RSVP with Outlook Invite - see Johanna’s invite

  • Animal Therapy for staff in Dollar Tree from 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm on the following days*:

    • 1/25, 1/31, 2/1, 2/14, 2/22, 3/8, 3/14, 3/22, 3/28

Operations + IT + Traditional healing

  • Sara (IT) Cell Phone: 612-946-0544

  • Travis’ Cell Phone: (763) 760-9983

  • Travis’ Hours (new):

    • Mon: 10 am - 6 pm

    • Tues: 11 am - 6 pm

    • Wed: 11 am - 6 pm

    • Thur: 11 am - 6 pm

    • Fri: 11 am - 6 pm

    • Sat: 10 am - 2 pm

Patient advocates + Transportation

  • No updates

New Staff

  •   None this week                             

Upcoming Events + Meetings + Groups + Risk Management Trainings

  • FOR PATIENTS:

  • Weekly Groups for Patients

  • FOR STAFF

    • Staff Party: 2/24

  • Gift Card Programs for Patients

    • $15 Aldi for breast, cervical, colorectal cancer screening - Contact Moriah for more information

    • Harm Reduction volunteers: Visa gift cards are available for individuals interested in volunteering with the harm reduction team. This includes building kits and receiving harm reduction education/conversation and some events. Contact James or Tina for more information

    • Linkage to Care (L2C) gift cards: $25 Target to be given at completion of appointment (of any kind) by provider/support staff. Patient must present their L2C voucher with staff initials and date on it. Limit one voucher per person every three months (tracked by Nikki and Tina), unless otherwise specified by care team. Point people are Tina Monje and Nikki Giardina. If Tina and Nikki are not around, go to Moriah (last resort).

    • HIV/HCV Testing: Participants who come for Monday’s Testing event receive $10 Target card for completing HIV testing, and $10 Target card for completing HCV testing. Participant receives gift card(s) after results are delivered. Point people are James Schmidt, Chyna Pfeifer, Tina Monje

    • COVID Vaccine Gift cards (DO NO PUBLICIZE): Amount of visa gift card depends on eligibility verified in MIIC - $100 for first COVID vaccine, and $50 for subsequent doses. Dispersed by Nikki Giardina, RN, ONLY during designated events including Monday Testing in Hinterland from 11:30am-2pm, and during offsite outreach events to outreach participants. Point person is Nikki Giardina, RN.

    • Harm Reduction Group (Tuesdays 3pm @ Mino-B Wellness Clinic) has $5 Target Gift Card incentives for attending group. 1 card per person per group attendance. Point Person: Chyna Pfeifer

    • OB Patients: 1 $25 gift card for OB patients completing their Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (done at 2nd trimester) and 1 $25 gift card once then complete postnatal/new born visit within 6 weeks of delivery. In summary OB patients can earn up to 2 $25 gift cards.  Staff can reach out to Emmy, Moriah or Stacy with questions.

Risk Management: Area of Focus

  • Incident tracker : Log workplace events/ issues in the incident tracker

  • Employee Suggestion Box

  • Vocera:

    • Please wear your badge daily

    • Press the big button to summon the “Vocera Genie” (call, broadcast)

    • Press and hold the red panic button for 2 seconds in emergency situations (the badge will automatically send an alert broadcast to all- state the nature of your emergency and location)

  • Sensitive Information on Teams:

  • Email Tips

    • NEVER CLICK ON LINKS FROM an email unless you have checked and confirmed with the sender that the link is legit. Text me if you have a question.

    • Never send any information or patient data to anyone without confirming both the email name and the email address the message was sent from.

    • Email Encryption: Please do it when sending emails with PHI or PII

  • Cell Phone Policy: NACC’s cell phone assistance program has limited availability: Please ask Cally, Moriah or Gregg if you have questions

outpatient Behavioral Health

  • BH has 2 half hour same day appointments each day with rotating providers throughout the week. Same day appointments operate on a first come first served basis and may be in person or virtual depending on the day. These must be scheduled by BH.

  • To schedule elder/spiritual care: call the BH front desk OR enter a request in referral tracker for BH to follow up with clients

  • Behavioral Health Home referrals (for patients who need long term behavioral health supports) Should be placed through orders, please contact Molly at mkrause@nacc-healthcare.org or 612-476-2017.

Groups: call BH front desk to get clients registered: 612-843-5981

  • Tending to our hearts and souls (Grief and Loss) - Tuesdays from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm - Kirsten Farmer

  • Diabetes Management Group - Thursdays from 10:00 am-11:00 am – with Laurie App.

  • Women’s Trauma Healing Group in Behavioral Health.  Meeting via zoom on Wednesdays at 2pm starting on 11/2. Please call BH with questions. 

Prevention Grants and Research

  • Youth Council Meeting-   Please direct interested young people ages 12-20 to Naomi Anywaush nanywaush@nacc-healthcare.org . The council will engage in cultural, educational, and leadership activities and be advised by mentors, the Elder’s Council, and community leaders.  We will be starting our regular meetings back up in January 2023, after the holiday break.

  • South High School—our pilot site this school year. We will offer: (a) roundtable culturally-tailored psychoeducational groups for youth, (b) resiliency/trauma aware trainings for school staff and teachers, and (c)  supports for youth victims of crime.

  • We have been building and strengthening partnerships with South High School and Little Earth Community to offer The Natural Helpers Training, a culturally tailored, peer to peer, suicide and substance use prevention program.

  • We were awarded a No Cost Extension to continue work on the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC) grant through September 2023. NACC, in partnership with the Minneapolis PD is piloting the Handle with Care (HWC) program at South High School this school year; Liz Adams is the coordinator for this project.  HWC is a school-police partnership that notifies schools when youth have been a victim of crime or interacted with police, so schools can provide additional support if needed.

Dental

  • Dental open normal hours.

  • Eastside clinic in St. Paul takes walk-ins 8:30-3 M-F for emergencies

Outreach

  • Weekly syringe clean-up around the neighborhood every Wednesday at 2 PM. All staff are invited to join. James and Tina will be the main contacts for this weekly event.

  • HIV Testing Event in Hinterland every Monday from 11 am -2 pm

  • Outreach at Avivo Village every other Thursday afternoon from 2pm-4pm

  • Street outreach every Thursday at encampments

  • Every 2nd Tuesday we join Southside HRS popup on Cedar

  • NACC staff are welcome to grab syringe or narcan kits from the DT harm reduction space. When taking supplies, please write down number of kits, type of kit, and date they are taking on White Board in back of DT.

Ashlee Jallen