Employee Investment
- For the second consecutive year, North Shore-LIJ
is ranked as one of the nation’s
Top 10 Hospital
Systems
for Diversity and Inclusion
practices by
DiversityInc. In addition, the VALOR (Veterans
and Allies: Liaisons
of Reintegration) business
employee resource group is recognized for its
patient-centered focus and mentoring
of new
veteran hires with its Navigator Program.
- The health system’s Diversity & Inclusion
efforts expand with the launch of
BRIDGES, a
new business
employee resource group (BERG)
with 300 members,
formed to bridge the gaps
in delivering culturally-sensitive
patient care.
The next BERG,
EXPRESSIONS, will launch
in early 2015 to promote awareness of LGBT
patient care and community partnerships.
- The health system partners with the
1199
National Benefit Fund (NBF) and 1199SEIU
United Healthcare
Workers East
labor union
to promote healthy lifestyles in the workplace.
For the second consecutive year,
two North
Shore-LIJ sites —
Staten Island University
Hospital
and the
North Shore-LIJ Medical
Group
business office
— receive grants from
the NBF for workplace wellness programs, with
dollar-for-dollar
matching funds provided
by North Shore-LIJ Employee Wellness.
- North Shore-LIJ is recognized by the National
Center for Healthcare Leadership as one
of the
Best
Organizations for Leadership
Development with a BOLD Award. The
honor acknowledges the health
system’s
initiatives to grow its current and future leaders
with education, support and resources.
- The health system
hires nearly 200 veterans
as part of its ongoing commitment to helping
military veterans
transition back into civilian life.
The outreach campaign “Your Service Matters”
launches featuring employed veterans and their
success stories with a new dedicated section on
the Careers website:
www.nslijcareers.co
- The health system launched its first-ever
orientation program for leaders, Leadership
Beginnings, bringing together the organization’s
newly hired and promoted leaders to immerse in
the organization’s behaviors and expectations.
- North Shore-LIJ Wellness pilots
employee
fitness challenges
built around activity goals
that are tracked by
participants for 8- and
12-week periods. Results demonstrated high
participant engagement and satisfaction.
- With
North Shore-LIJ Foundation, Employee
Wel l ness
and
CareConnect
support, North
Shore-LIJ sponsors
the
2014 Marcum Workplace
Challenge Wellness Pavilion. More than 150
employees participated in the
run/walk which
raised $95,000 for LI Cares: Harry Chapin Food
Bank, Long Island Children’s Museum, and
the Children’s Medical Fund of New York.
- In collaboration with
1199SEIU Training and
Upgrading Fund, the Center for Learning and
Innovation,
and
Forest Hills Hospital,
North
Shore-LIJ establishes the “Inclusion Academy”
leadership development program, specifically
designed to provide tools and enhance patient-
centered care skills at local sites and
facilities.
A pilot care coordination cultural competency
workshop was delivered as well as the Greater
New
York Hospital Association’s “Cultural
Competency Training for Frontline Staff.”
- The health system launched its first annual
Nursing Scholarship Program
through
which six scholarships
of $5,000 were
awarded to nursing students who are either
employed by the health system or a qualifying
dependent of a health system employee.
- North Shore University Hospital
holds its first Bike Fest. Coinciding with
National Bike Month, the event is
part of a
wellness effort to encourage the hospital’s
employees to pursue an active lifestyle.