2010 National Recognition Winners
In her role as a primary care nurse for home care and assisted living facility (ALF) patients, Helen K. serves as caregiver and comforter, but also shopper, chief brownie baker and Santa Claus.
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VITAS Healthcare Employee Recognition
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21st September 2019
2011 National Recognition Winners
The VITAS Values are hardwired into VITAS Nurse Jocelyn C.'s DNA. She enhances those four values, however, with a fifth: "I am always thinking, 'If it were me or my family member needing care, what would I want?'"
VITAS Healthcare Employee Recognition
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21st September 2019
2009 National Recognition Winners
It was summer, and it was hot. CNA Pramila D. and her husband used their own money to buy a ceiling fan for a patient who lived in a poorly ventilated house.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Wellness Newsletter
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21st September 2019
VITAS Wellness - 4Q 2010
For years, VITAS Chaplain Jerome W. lived with diabetes by just "taking two pills a day, not exercising and eating whatever, whenever I wanted." Then his father, who also had diabetes, died — at 58.
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21st September 2019
VITAS Wellness - 4Q 2012
There was no question whether Business Manager Karen B. would sign up for the "Keep It Moving" Challenge. "I've participated in all of VITAS' weight-loss challenges and have done well. I figured I would keep it up," she says.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
VITAS Wellness - 4Q 2013
For Gladis P., weight loss is in the palm of her hand — literally. "The size of your palm is supposed to be about the size of your food portions, so I use that as my gauge," says the top winner in the Keep It Moving Challenge.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
Vital Signs - July 2007
A hospice patient in California who suffers from end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease picked up knitting to make holiday scarves for her VITAS caregivers. Along the way, she discovered an added benefit — reduced stress and anxiety.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
Vital Signs - May/June 2009
"I once walked into the room of an elderly mentally challenged patient at a long term care facility and found Dr. L. coloring with her in a coloring book," recalls Dr. Rakesh C. "He smiled somewhat sheepishly and said, 'We always color first.'"
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
Vital Signs - May/June 2008
Few people know that Tracy C., a social worker in the Chicagoland Northwest program, has a license to drive a "big rig" (an 18-wheeler) in her native New Zealand. She used the license to drive a milk truck to support herself during college.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
Vital Signs - Sept/Oct 2007
For the first time in history, the American workplace is made up of employees from four generations — the Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
Vital Signs - Winter 2010
When a devastating earthquake in Haiti left millions without food, water, shelter or medical care, a number of VITAS nurses and doctors — including one originally from Haiti — traveled there to provide relief.
VITAS Healthcare Employee Newsletter
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21st September 2019
Vital Signs - Winter 2013
VITAS employees brave dangerous weather conditions to tend to their patients during and after Hurricane Sandy.
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