ASSOCIATION NEWS November 2019 The office will close on November 22 for Thanksgiving Week and reopen on December 2. If you need immediate assistance during that time, email info@nwmomgma.com
It changes the way you think about your work. While recognition is more of the act Why Being A More of expressing gratitude, determining what you are grateful for is a much deeper mental Grateful Leader exercise. Taking the time to stop and ask how some activity or performance affected Benefits You you is an important act of self-reflection. You gain greater clarity on the why of your Adapted from John Loflin’s Newsletter, November 2019 role. As a result, you increase the emotional and mental energy available to deal with the daily expectations of your job. … Failing to understand the deeper impact of expressing gratitude on our personal growth can also lead us to only see It re-humanizes you. With all the focus on data analytics, metrics, the act as something we have to do this time of year. We check and algorithms in today’s workplace, we can forget that what makes the box and move on the next urgent item screaming for our things happen is the work done by human beings. Behind every attention. number in a monthly report is a person who gave their time and So in that frame of thought, here are four ways I believe being energy to create that result. Expressing gratitude acknowledges that more grateful makes you a stronger leader all year: while the numbers are important, the work given to get to those numbers is even more valued. It sharpens your emotional intelligence . … It’s about feeling thankful, either as a direct beneficiary or on behalf of someone else. It is expressing a positive emotion.” The five areas of ACTION STEPS emotional intelligence include self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills, so practicing more … Take 2 minutes at the end of your workday from time to time to gratitude helps you with understanding the impact of emotions answer one of these questions: on each of these areas. • Whose work affected me in a positive way today? • What did I see or experience with my team today that helped me be It makes you more “real” to others. …. Telling someone else more effective as their leader or manager? how their work positively influenced your ability to lead helps them see you differently. As Eric Mosley writes in The ROI of Finally, take action to express that gratitude. As William F. Ward is Gratitude In The Workplace , “When you give an award and quoted as saying, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like write a personal message describing how someone else’s work wrapping a present and not giving it.” As you make being grateful impacted you, you are vulnerable and authentic in that more of a habit, you’ll find that not only are your team members more moment.” focused, supportive, and successful, but that you are too… and doesn’t that make the case you should engage in the behavior all year?
Umbrella Managed Systems Donates Laptop to MGMA Kansas City Chapters! Umbrella MS not only had a great exhibitor door prize at the September symposium (pictured left), they jumped into action when they found out the OLD laptop used by both KC MGMA chapters was experiencing major difficulties and wasn’t reliable after all the recent updates. On November 12, 2019, KC chapters were gifted with a new laptop, taking the strain off in trying keep the old one functioning every month. Preparing for meetings will be so much easier now that we have a new DELL laptop to use for the foreseeable future. Thank you so much, Umbrella MS!
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Energetic discussions, bursts of laughter and a new laptop! Hot Topics were discussed at these three tables. • Jami Hrenchir, MPA, SPHR, the Director of HR at Clay County Public Health Center led a discussion on "Progressive Discipline - How to Coach Up or Coach Out.“ Some great examples of how this helps! • Jason Stalling led a round table discussion on "Performance Management.“ Lots of good conversation. IMPORTANT REQUEST • Phyllis Fulk discussed "Goal setting and transparency with your staff.“ We’re having a lot of no-shows the Lots of burst of laughter at this table! last few months, which leaves a lot of food wasted for our sponsoring Hospital Sponsor: hospitals (see photo of this month’s North Kansas City Hospital -- Thanks to Colleen Bardone for an update on NKCH new leftovers). If you find you can’t offerings, and for sponsoring our space and attend, please email the office to meals for this meeting. cancel as far ahead as possible, so Business Partner Sponsor: we can adjust the number of meals Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City – ordered and save money for our Jim Nichols, Carla Jensen and Tiara Bonds sponsoring hospitals. Thanks a lot!
2020 Volunteers It’s that time of year! Get your calendar out for 2020 and mark every 2 nd Tuesday from 11am-1pm for NWMO meetings. Volunteer Opportunities Send an email to the office to get on the list to Greet or Register at meetings in 2020. It’s lots of fun! Give a door prize (1-2 minutes to describe business). OR be a Business Partner Monthly Sponsor in 2020. Business Partner info@nwmomgma.com Monthly Sponsors Month Business Partners receive: • 5 minutes to describe your business • slide on monthly association news • display table at the meeting • Door prize - pick your winning ticket and present it personally to them.
MEMBERSHIP SURVEY Thanks to the 9 members who completed the survey online and 12 who completed it at the meeting on Tuesday. For those members who have not yet filled out the membership survey poll, the Board requests that you share your valuable views with them by next Thanks in Friday. Your voice and input matters a great deal. advance for taking the time Deadline: Friday, November 22 to participate Takes less than 10 minutes to complete. and be part of https://nwmomgma.wildapricot.org/Sys/Poll/10260 this process! Short! Quick! Easy! We need your input!
Holli Scott, Saint Luke’s Physician Group in Smithville Last few months: Shelbie Vanderweide, Medix Amy Turpen, The Kearney Clinic Maria Longwell, The ENT Clinic Jessica Maglich, The Orthopedic Clinic Angelia Diven, The Excelsior Springs Clinic Stacey Gates, Gates Hospitalists, LLC
NEW CMS WEBINAR with Michelle Wineinger Date: December 5, 2019 Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm or a bit longer Location: Online and Phone Register at: https://nwmomgma.wildapricot.org/event-349373 Rural Health Coordinator/Division of In addition, updates and resources for Financial Management & Fee for CMS agency priorities including the Service Operations Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program The focus of this session will be on (MDPP), Patients Over Paperwork (PoP), the recently published CMS final and the Opioid Epidemic will be rules including the Outpatient provided. Please join the webinar online Prospective Payment System (OPPS) to view the slide presentation (slides and Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) may be available for download pending rules with provisions going into effect agency clearance). January 1, 2020.
Slate of Officers for 2020 (Elected Officers) PRESIDENT SECRETARY Brad Carney, FACMPE, CPC Esther Schletzbaum (Appointed) MANAGER AT LARGE PRESIDENT ELECT Jason Stalling Andrea Wyatt, MBA, CMPE BUSINESS PARTNER AT LARGE PAST PRESIDENT Tempe Harty Amie McDonald BUSINESS PARTNER AT LARGE TREASURER Brigitte Berry Julianne Hemphill
November Business Partner Sponsor A MILLION FOLKS HAVE THE BLUES Why do more people in the Kansas City region choose Blue KC than any other health insurance company? Maybe it's because we've been around for more than 80 years. Maybe it's because we have more health plans to fit more lives. Maybe it's because we offer the broadest network of providers and hospitals. Maybe it's all this, and more.
December Holiday Meeting ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING After extensive review of the NWMO MGMA Bylaws by Past Date: December 10, 2019 President Russ Onken and review by the board of directors, there Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm are no changes in the bylaws this year. Location: Norterre (just north of Liberty Hospital) "Get Tested KC" by Adria Edwards, Get Tested KC Campaign Manager from KC Care and our 2019 Annual Charity -- KC Care Amie McDonald, NWMO President, “And the Survey Says!” A review of NWMO MGMA survey results and an open forum discussion on the future of our professional organization. Hospital Sponsor: Norterre, affiliated with Liberty Hospital We appreciate your support of our association, meal & facility. Business Partner Sponsor: Information Communication Group - Cheryl Parnau
Our 2019 Charity – A REQUEST! Thank you for making KC a healthier place to live. With each tax-deductible gift, dedicated staff and volunteers DECEMBER MEETING foster KC CARE's role as the heart of community healthcare for thousands of people across Kanas NWMO will be presenting KC Care City. Their work is made possible with a donation from the association. because of you. Please consider making a personal donation at our December 10 We’ll be asking for donations of meeting and show our support of the much needed items soon. amazing work these folks do for our community and beyond. https://kccare.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/
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