Covington County Hospital is pleased to announce: Michelle Bush, PTA

We are thrilled to announce the hiring of our new, full-time Physical Therapy Assistant, Michelle Bush, PTA at Covington County Hospital. Michelle Bush, PTA a current resident of the area, attended Seminary High School. Later, she attended Pearl River Community College where she received her PTA degree. Michelle loves making a difference in people’s lives with all glory to God. We know she is prepared to take on the physical therapy needs of your community. We cannot wait to see her patients’ recovery journeys. Michelle is a proud mom of two boys, Dawson, age 22, and Dusty, age 20. When she is not helping patients recover, she enjoys spending time outdoors kayaking, hunting, fishing, and enjoying the beach. Covington County Hospital and Mid South value continuing education and promoting exceptional leaders. We are excited to have Michelle as a partner. We look forward to her progress, and we know that she will have opportunities to improve our patients in her new role. Michelle is joining an incredible team of therapists led by Arica Haeusler, COTA/L, and Director of Rehab. Our therapy team at Covington is additionally comprised of Mercedes Brown, LPTA; Carrie Bullock, Office Manager; Olivia Robinson, DPT; and Jennifer Lawing, OTR/L.

Medicare Part A PDPM SLP Microsoft Teams Training Webinar

DORs and all full-time SLPs who work in Mid South Medicare Part A PDPM facilities,

We have an upcoming and mandatory PDPM SLP training on Friday, 2/24/23, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM for all DORs and all full-time SLPs that work in Medicare Part A PDPM facilities. DORs and SLPs who do not work in PDPM facilities are not required to attend. RCDs and DORs in PDPM facilities, if you have Part Time or PRN SLPs that work on a consistent basis and perform screens and evaluations on PDPM patients, you may consider inviting them to attend as well.

One of Mid South’s own excellent SLPs, Anna Way, will join us on this webinar to provide practical tips, resources, and training that will help lead our SLPs to optimal success in PDPM!

Penny will send out a Microsoft Teams invite for the meeting. If you are not certain you can access Microsoft Teams, please read Penny’s follow-up invite and information related to ensuring you can access Teams for the meeting. Contact Penny at plewis@midsouthrehab.com with any questions.

To Inspire

Let me begin this article by saying how grateful I am for all the feedback I received last week in my article on communications. This week we are re-looking at Pillar 4 of Mid South’s culture: To Inspire. I realize that there are so many things in our workplace that simply are beyond our control. At times, we may feel like we cannot move the needle much in terms of making changes to make things better for our teams. I read an article this week entitled, “Creating a workplace your team doesn’t want to leave”. It talked about the fact that demands to keep good people have become almost too much to bear. Employees want more and more flexibility; many simply do not want to work as hard and many are just unsettled in life and work. Craig Groeschel says that it is safe for us to assume that most of our team members are unsettled right now.

So, what can we do to INSPIRE team members who want to stay on our team? There are four steps that we can take to help move our people in a positive direction:

1. Meet one-on-one with our team members as often as possible and LISTEN. Listen to what’s being said and what’s not being said. Lean in as a leader and focus on ways you can serve them.

2. When you can make a change that helps your team, make it. When you hear a need that you can meet act. Find a way to make small changes that equal big impacts.

3. Be prepared to let (or occasionally help) some people move on. Jim Collins says we must make certain we have the right people on the bus and the wrong people off the bus. Sometimes the greatest thing we can do for someone else is to help them move on and find something that fulfills them in life.

4. Just lead. Tell the truth, create a place people love to work, cast a compelling vision, celebrate people, and share wins with your team. Remember your team members are not a commodity to be leveraged. They are people to be loved. (Craig Groeschel)

I hope this message inspires each of you and puts you in place to inspire others around you.