Put a Rainbow on Your Plate to Stay Healthy
If you’re eating while reading this, take a look at your plate. How many colors do you see? The best way to get all the nutrients you need is by adding more color. Fruits and veggies are full of great things like fiber, antioxidants, potassium, folate, and vitamins A and C. The more colors you add to your plate, the more nutrients you consume. And that can help lower their risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, obesity and high blood pressure.
From now until the end of the year, join the Wellfocused Team and put a Rainbow on Your Plate. We’ll focus on different food colors and the health benefits of each color. This will help guide you to making healthier choices. Check out the Wellfocused app home stream for updates on creating the Rainbow on Your Plate. Make food tracking a fun experience! Track how many colors you can eat in one day. As you are tracking, make sure to link your food tracker to the Jiff-Wellfocused app and watch your Wellfocused points add up!
Email the Wellfocused Team with questions at wellfocused@uphs.upenn.edu. And don’t forget about the on-site nutrition counseling with a Family Food Dietitian. Employees covered under the PennCare PPO medical plan can receive six free visits each year.
Summer Ambulatory Manager Summit Continues to Enrich and Engage
Tips on improvisation and how it can improve leadership skills. Advice on managing disruptive people. An update on the business of Penn Medicine. These were only a few of the many topics discussed during the 10th Ambulatory Manager Summit held in July.
Attended by more than 200 leaders from practices across Penn Medicine, the bi-annual event is an opportunity for education, networking and skill-building. “The summit has become an occasion to really learn something and hopefully grow as a leader,” said Craig Loundas, AVP of Penn Medicine Experience.
What started as a poster presentation with a keynote speaker five years ago has evolved into a half-day conference. After welcoming remarks from Beth Johnston, executive director of CPUP, the keynote address from Lori Gustave, SVP of Business Development, provided an update on the market and the benefits of strategic alliances to Penn Medicine. Executive leaders from Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Hospital and Princeton Health also gave overviews of their local mission and culture.
The summit’s six breakout sessions touched on a variety of subjects, including Building A Feedback Rich Environment, Integrating Cultural Humility into LGBTQ Care, and Improvisation for Improved Leadership. “Our practice managers are exposed to internal and external speakers providing messages that are consistent with Penn Medicine’s mission and values,” said Michael Cella, associate COO of Medicine. “Equally important are the breakout sessions led by peers that highlight successes they achieved in their own clinics and were able to bring to scale.”
The session on the Experience Standards and CPUP Service Excellence Guidelines included tips for incorporating the Guidelines and Standards in a practice and a discussion around ideas for rewarding and recognizing staff for service excellence. “It provided practice leadership with some concrete tactics to overcome barriers they are facing or expect to face when implementing the standards,” said Silvia Sareyed-Dim, CPUP project manager.
For more information on the Penn Medicine Experience or the January 2019 Ambulatory Manager Summit, contact Craig.Loundas@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
To learn more about the Penn Medicine Experience Standards, visit pennmedicine.org/pmx.
To learn more about Building a Feedback Rich environment, visit http://pennpointplus.uphs.upenn.edu/sites/PMA/Talent or type TALENT into your Internet Explorer URL bar.