MMCRI staff check in follow up from 10-22-20 meeting

 Here is a recording of the meeting in case you missed it - MMCRI Staff Check In - October 2020

We discussed whether the staff check ins should continue. We all agreed that they are helpful and should continue for now. 

 

Flu Vaccines 

As a reminder, all MaineHealth colleagues are required to receive a flu vaccination and provide proof of flu vaccine (or documented medical or religious exemption) by November 1.

We received clarification from Employee Health about the notification of receipt of flu shot forms. There is a backlog and they are doing their best to update employee records as quickly as possible. It sounds like some people have received receipts for sending in their forms and others haven’t due to different people in Employee Health receiving the form. If you are questioning whether your form was received, please ask your manager to check his/her report in Lawson to see if you are marked as compliant. Managers – please follow up with your employees that are not yet compliant. Reports can be found in Lawson under the HR Reports section. 

 

 

·     MaineHealth Influenza Immunization policy. 

·     Read FAQs about the new flu policy

 

 

PTO requests

 

Please send PTO requests to the PTO Mailbox (MMCIR_PTO@mmc.org) and copy your manager. Managers, please respond to that email indicating that you approve the PTO. Thank you for your patience as we train our new staff on Kronos. 

 

As referenced at the Staff Check In, the MaineHealth attendance policy can be found here - MaineHealth Attendance Policy. Please let Amy Caron know if you have any questions about this policy. 

 

 

Engagement Council 

 

Please see the attachments for the Engagement Council slides from the meeting and the dependent care resource document put together by the Dependent Care subcommittee

 

 

R User Group Workshop

 

Interested in learning R? Attend the MMC R User Group's upcoming workshop, hosted by RStudio

What: Foundations of R Workflow

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1-5p

Description: Educators from RStudio will be presenting an overview of the R workflow. This hands-on, 4-hour workshop will cover topics like:

 

•       Getting started using R

•       Reading data into R

•       Modifying, sorting, and combining data

•       Printing, summarizing, and visualizing data

•       Enhancing your output with R Markdown

 

Audience: No prior knowledge of R or RStudio is needed.

 

Contact: Jaclyn Janis, Research Data Analyst at CORE, jjanis@mmc.org

 

See the attached flyers for more details. 

 

 

CDA Pumpkin Carving

 

The Career Development Association (CDA) is hosting a pumpkin carving contest. Please send Caitlin Stieber an email (caitlin.stieber@maine.edu) with a picture of any pumpkin you carve this year (by Nov 1st) if you would like to be included in our contest! This includes anyone at any of the MMCRI locations.

 

 

Building Alarms

 

·       All parameter doors to animal facility and building are all alarmed after hour.

 

·       If you can swipe in to a door, you can exit that door, if you can’t swipe in, please don’t exit through that door. 

 

·       If the alarm goes off, use the keypad next to the exterior door to enter the code found on the alarm card that you should keep with your badge. If you need one of these cards, please contact Karen Corts (CORTSK@MMC.ORG).

 

 

Vote!

 

Check on your ballot here - https://apps.web.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/AbsenteeBallot/ballot_status.pl

 

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