NACC Week of 5/16/2022
Morning Huddle: Every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
https://mnachc.zoom.us/j/8029150113
!!Staff Shoutouts!!
Shout out to Cally for being a thoughtful, helpful, and all around fantastic supervisor!
Johanna for jumping in and taking on projects. She is a great addition to the operations team!
Fun fact (and shout out) to LPN Char for being an author with a published children’s book!
Kelly Firesteel for her fierce work ethic, and for being so cool and calm in stressful situations
All Staff Updates this Week
Mask Reminder: All staff and patients are required to wear masks when in the clinic or at any programming hosted by NACC
Updated Phone Directory in General Teams Files. Please contact Johanna if any information is missing or needs to be edited
Behavioral Health
BH is accepting clients for the waitlist again for therapy. Please have clients call BH to be added if they’re not being referred by a NACC medical provider.
There is no longer a dedicated zoom room in the behavioral health clinic, zoom is available by appointment.
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 Rachael at the BH front desk OR enter a request in referral tracker for BH to follow up with clients
All groups are via telehealth
Behavioral Health Home referrals (for patients who need long term behavioral health supports) Should be placed through orders. Please call Shawn at 612-843-6837 when making these referrals.
Groups: call BH front desk to get clients registered: 612-843-5981
Tending to our hearts and souls - Tuesdays from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm - Christine
Diabetes Management Group - Thursdays from 9:00 am-10:30 am – with Deb D. Please send referrals to Jessica Thurin.
Dental
Dental open normal hours.
Eastside clinic in St. Paul takes walk-ins 8:30-3 M-F for emergencies
Outreach
HIV Testing Event in Hinterland every Monday from 11 am -2 pm
Syringe exchange, HCV testing, COVID vaccines, & HEP A vaccines available as well as vouchers for further screening in clinic
Drop off spring/summer gear (rain jackets, rain boots, sweaters, etc.) in DT during the next few Monday’s testing hours
Outreach at 5th & Lake encampment every Wednesday providing HIV & HCV testing along with other services with partnering orgs
Offering $25 Linkage to Care voucher to bring back to clinic to seek any type of service (See Nikki or Tina for gift cards)
Outreach at Avivo Village every other Thursday afternoon from 2pm-4pm (NOT THIS WEEK)
Street outreach every Thursday at Scooterville/Franklin Ave encampments
Outreach/ Linkage to Care support during The Aliveness Project’s Friday pop-up’s on 26th & 16th street from 10-1pm
Patient advocates + Transportation
Transportation:
PTO: Ashley will out on PTO Monday May 16th-Friday May 20th. Please contact patient advocates for transportation assistance
Erin and Cally are out Thursday and Friday.
New Staff
Policy + Procedures
Contacting IT: Email: it@nacc-healthcare.org
Zach can be reached at 612-843-5982. His cell phone should only be used in emergency situations
Johanna can be reached at (612) 476-2018
Upcoming Events + Meetings + Groups + Risk Management Trainings
FOR PATIENTS:
Open House: 5/20 from 11 am to 2 pm. “Love Yourself for Future Generations”
FOR STAFF
Workout Wednesday: 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm in Dollar Tree
Risk Management: Area of Focus
Incident tracker : Log workplace events/ issues in the incident tracker-
Patient shepherding when behind registration in medical.
Email Encryption: Please do it when sending emails with PHI or PII
Email Scams: Review 8 ways to detect Phishing
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.