Author: Liz Healy
The Marketplace Gift Shop Holiday Open House
November 16th will kick off the holiday season at the gift shop. Come throughout the week to buy your Riverside Essential Worker t-shirt, unique holiday gifts, and more. Please help us maintain socially-distanced shopping. Our first priority is everyone’s safety.
To spread out shoppers, we’ve extended our hours this week:
- Monday 11/16 – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Special overnight hours on Friday, 11/20 – 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.
- Saturday 11/21 – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Regular hours are Monday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Want more information about an item or to purchase an item you saw in this week’s video or in the pictures below? Call the Marketplace Gift Shop (815) 935-7871 during regular hours to see if the item is still available or to purchase the item over the phone. Riverside employees can have items sent directly to your department.
Referral Bonus for RNs & CNAs
Connect friends.
Earn rewards.
Program Guidelines:
- Referrals must submit your name upon application and/or interview.
- Referrals must meet all employment criteria for selection. (Final selection of candidates is based upon the decision of Human Resources and hiring department management.)
- Candidates must be offered and accept minimum .75 FTE position.
- RN referrals must have at least 1 year of experience as an RN.
- Only one referral bonus per hired RN or CNA. (In the event the same person is referred by more than one Riverside employee, the award will be based on the date the referral is received in Human Resources via application, interview or this referral form.)
- Program begins November 1, 2020. Referrals must begin employment on or before February 1, 2021.
- The referral bonus will be paid in two separate payments: the first half after the referred candidate has been employed for three months and the second half after the referred candidate has been employed for one year. Both employees (referring employee and referred employee) must be employed at the time of each payout. (All state and federal tax withholdings apply to bonus payouts.)
Inaugural Wellness Wagon Day
The Riverside Wellness Wagon Visited the 3rd floor tower on Thursday November 12, 2020. Be watching for the wagon to visit your department. Filled items to show appreciation to our staff, the Wellness Wagon will be rounding daily.
Riverside values our employees and the exceptional care they continue to provide our patients during this trying time.
Open Enrollment 2021 Deadline Nov. 23
Employee Benefit Open Enrollment begins November 3rd and will close at 6pm on November 23rd.
It is important to note that this is an “active” Enrollment, which means you must enroll or your coverage will end.
Open Enrollment is your annual opportunity to review, enroll in or make changes to your benefits, as well as add or drop coverage for eligible dependents (changes effective 1/1/2021).
Review the Open Enrollment Presentation and Benefit Guide on InforESS under the Benefit Information section for important information regarding deductible, network, pharmacy and plan design changes for the new year.
REACH Employee Wellness:
- You will save $780 on health insurance premiums by completing Level 1
- Save another $520 on your spouse’s premiums if they participate as well
- Earn up to $520 in Wellness Credit by completing all levels of REACH.
*If you or your spouse did not complete Level 1, you will see additional premiums ($30 for employee / $20 for spouse) each pay period.
How to Enroll
The Infor Employee Self Service Portal is the tool available to employees to enroll in benefits.
To access these tools from home on www.riversidemc.net, click on “More” then under “For Employees” choose “Employee Self Service”, and sign in using your secure log on.
From work click on the Infor ESS (employee self service) icon on your desktop.
Once on the Employee Self Service Home Page, hover over the “Benefit Information” icon and choose… –Benefit Information 2021 for plan details –Open Enrollment to select your 2021 benefits –Current Benefits to view your current enrollment
You can begin and come back to the enrollment platform as needed during open enrollment but you must submit your elections by 6pm, Nov. 23rd.
Spend your 2020 Flex Spending Account (FSA) funds before March 15, 2021
- You have until March 15, 2021 to incur eligible expenses for the 2020 year. You have until March 30, 2021 to submit those claims otherwise any remaining 2020 FSA account balance will be forfeited.
- Use your Optum Bank FSA Debit card to spend those remaining amounts.
Click the button below to view benefit information and a Benefit Meeting Schedule. Also included is information about the Virtual Benefit Fair.
Well in Mind: Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons —most often starting in the fall and continuing into the winter months. The pandemic we are going through may add to the misery of Seasonal Affective Disorder, but we have strategies that can help! It’s important to line up resources that can be put in place now, so when your tank is already low, it doesn’t completely drop as we get into these months.
- Create and follow a schedule that designates a time for sleep, meals, exercise and self-care. This provides a welcome sense of familiarity.
- Count the hours of sunlight as a reminder that seasonal depression is just that — seasonal.
- Take up indoor activities such as growing indoor plants, reading, writing letters and painting. This can give you something to look forward to each day.
- Practice gratitude to help you feel more empowered and off-balance a sense of powerlessness that COVID has collectively provided our world.
- Get yourself some light therapy by going for a daily walk, opening blinds, turning on lights, or using a light therapy box which mimics outdoor light.
- Substitute cellphone scrolling with knitting. Colors, patterns and the tactile feel of textures is more soothing to focus on.
- Get physical activity. An easy in-home option can be yoga.
Well In Mind is here for you. Just call 815-933-2240, option #2 to schedule an appointment or to ask about your EAP benefits.
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