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Welcome to HSL

Angeline Pierre, Culinary Intern, IL/AL-NewBridge

Anna Landucci, Staff Nurse RN, HRC-Roslindale

Anna Melnikova, Schedule Coordinator, Payroll Liaison, HSL Home Care

Bianca DiSilvestro, Exercise Therapist, HRC-Roslindale

Chiccardi Alcante, Staff Accountant, Orchard Cove

Christian Alfaro, Food Service Attendant, IL/AL-NewBridge

Ellen Gordon, Social Worker, HRC-NewBridge

Filipina Lopushanova, Resident Assistant, HRC-Roslindale

Hannah Charles, Resident Assistant, HRC-NewBridge

Hilary Gresser, Physical Therapist, Per Diem, HRC-Roslindale

Jose del Villar, Steward, IL/AL-NewBridge

Julie DiGeronimo, Clinical Dietitian, HRC-NewBridge

Julie Michel, Server, IL/AL-NewBridge

Katelyne Jean-Pierre, Waitstaff, Orchard Cove

Katline Mathieu, Resident Assistant, HRC-NewBridge

Kenol Mathieu, Utility and Tray Line Service Associate, HRC-Roslindale

Lisa Port White, Hospice Massage Therapist, HSL Hospice Care

Liudmila Khokha, Staff Nurse RN, HRC-Roslindale

Margaret Tierney, Member Service Coordinator, IL/AL-NewBridge

Maryia Harbachova, Resident Assistant, HRC-Roslindale

Mireille Michaud, Resident Assistant, HRC-Roslindale

Nancy Kjersgard, Waitstaff, Satter House

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Marilyn and Andre Danesh

Marian Hannan, D.Sc., MPH

--- Please print and post for employees with limited computer access --- January 8, 2016

Dear Fellow HSL Employee

Happy 2016—I hope you enjoyed your holidays and created some terrific and lasting memories with

family and friends! I am grateful for some extended time spent with my family, and am ready to dive

into our busy year ahead! One of our first orders of business for 2016 is the upcoming series of Talk

Shop with Lou that kicks off in Roslindale on January 25. For those who are new to HSL, Talk Shop

with Lou is a series of conversations we conduct twice each year with all employees, from all

campuses, across HSL to share updates and collect your feedback around key corporate initiatives.

Please click here for the complete schedule of 14 Talk Shop sessions. And I do hope you will do your

best to attend the conversation at your location as this series will provide the avenue for circling back

about HSL’s Strategic Plan. You will see that the outstanding input you provided during the early

stages of the strategic planning process, largely at the Fall 2014 Talk Shop series, has had an

enormous impact on the final plan’s strategic approaches and resulting initiatives. At the upcoming

Talk Shop series, several members of the Senior Leadership Team will join me so we can collectively

share some of the key elements of HSL’s future approach to “ensure a continuum of services for

more populations of seniors and their families.” I look forward to seeing you at Talk Shop with Lou.

Please know that your Friday Report comments are always welcome—just send me a note at

Lou'sFridayReport@hsl.harvard.edu

HSL Highlights

Thanks to a generous gift from Brookline residents, Marilyn and Andre Danesh, CCB’s 100 Centre

Street address is now called The Marilyn and Andre Danesh Residences at 100 Centre Street,

or “The Danesh Residences” for short. The Daneshes

are long-time HSL supporters. Marilyn is a Trustee,

and was a Women’s Auxiliary (now Friends of HSL)

volunteer. Along with The Danesh Residences, CCB

includes The Diane and Mark Goldman Family

Residences at 1550 Beacon Street or “The Goldman

Residences” and The Julian and Carol Feinberg

Cohen Residences at 112 Centre Street or “The

Cohen Residences.” And in recognition of these

donors’ generosity and continued HSL philanthropic

support, going forward, we will refer to our CCB

Senior Living Communities by their associated

donor’s names in writing and in conversation.

Congratulations to the HRC-MACU and RSU teams for

their great work leading to HRC’s recent re-accreditation by the

Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), which extends through

January 2019. CARF is an independent, international nonprofit accreditation organization that

sets the standards for the best in quality, value, and optimal outcomes of the services we provide

our post-acute care patients. To learn more about CARF, please click here.

Employee Happenings

With great pride, we all congratulate Marian Hannan, Co-Director of

the Institute of Aging Research’s Musculoskeletal Research Center

and Senior Scientist with IFAR, for her recent appointment as Full

Professor at Harvard Medical School. With Marian’s appointment,

IFAR now has five HMS professors working on important research to

improve the lives of older adults. Published in more than 50 scientific

journals, Marian works with investigators in the Musculoskeletal

Research Center to quantify risk factors contributing to

musculoskeletal diseases. Click here to read our press release about

this news. Congratulations!

Nancy Nogueira, Director of Nursing, RSU, HRC-NewBridge

Ourania Tsekeris, Senior Accounts Payable Coordinator, HRC-Roslindale

Pearlyne Pascal, Resident Assistant, HRC-NewBridge

Sarah Seck, Staff Nurse RN, HRC-NewBridge

Shirley Roshannah, Hospice Massage Therapist, HSL Hospice Care

Sokha Sing, Staff Accountant, IL/AL-NewBridge

Stephen Antoine, Utility and Tray Line Service Associate, HRC-Roslindale

Tania Cirino Fuentes, Admissions Coordinator, Post Acute Services, HRC-Roslindale

Tari Keinkede, Staff Nurse RN, HRC-Roslindale

Witzer Dessalines, Waitstaff, Fireman

Yvette Desruisseaux, Resident Assistant, HRC-Roslindale

JVS’s Mary Jo Kiepper (second from left) is

joined by new U.S. citizens (l-r): Guerda

Laguere, Louiseline Pierre, Elena Gazhak-

Banosian, Olga Mulugeta, Yvette Robinson

Barbara O’Brien

Professional Development has teamed up with Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) to provide

Citizenship, a five-week program that guides eligible employees through the process of

becoming U.S. citizens. Congratulations to the five HSL employees who recently completed

Citizenship and are now U.S. citizens! If you

are interested in the program and have had a

Green Card for five years, or have been

married to a U.S. citizen and have had a Green

Card for three years, click here for more

information. Or call JVS Instructor

Mary Jo Kiepper at 813-731-5033.

After 42 years of dedicated service to HSL,

Barbara O’Brien will be leaving us on January 22 when she

enters the next phase of her life in retirement. Barbara joined

HRC in 1974 as a newly graduated nurse and worked her way up

the career ladder to her most recent role as Senior Operations

Leader for LTC in Roslindale. Barbara has provided

exceptional leadership in her many positions through the years,

always focused on caring for our residents. She will be missed.

Thank you Barbara and best wishes to you!

Get Involved--Get Engaged

The primary focus of HSL’s Lean Training is to enhance your

Process Improvement participation while developing your problem-solving skills. Click here for this

month’s Continuous Improvement @HSL feature with the latest examples of how our Nursing and

Culinary teams apply their lean training skills and make their work processes more efficient.

Click here for the 2015 Year in Review slide show—a compilation of photos that appeared on the HUB during 2015. You can also find

the slide show on the HUB home page under Timely Links.

The holidays may be officially behind us, but the opportunities to celebrate with your colleagues are still ahead! So please click here for

the upcoming party schedules and here for ticket details about the Blue and Silver Ball for Roslindale and NewBridge employees on

Saturday, January 23 at Moseley’s on the Charles.

Best of the Best

I’m very pleased to share the following edited excerpts from a letter Dr. Trimble Augur received from one of her former patients

from the RSU at HRC-NewBridge:

“I was admitted to the RSU at NewBridge after falling three times and being hospitalized twice in the ten days prior. Dr. Augur was the

physician in charge of my case. During my 28-day stay at NewBridge, Dr. Augur tracked my progress against the comprehensive plan of

action she developed on the day of my admission. She monitored my daily routines, modified my medications when appropriate, and

arranged for an orthopedic examination of my broken ankle (from the first fall) to ensure it was healing properly. Dr. Augur proved to be a

vital and integral part of my recovery. She is an outstanding, extremely skilled doctor, and most importantly, she has a very

compassionate and caring bedside manner. She always made me feel like I was her only patient and had 100% of her attention.

But she also went above and beyond my expectations when she took ownership of my overall health situation, unrelated to my falls and

hospitalizations. I am under the care of a doctor at Dana Farber for cancer. Dr. Augur arranged for biopsies of another part of my body

that appeared suspicious during a prior hospital scan, and then coordinated this process with my Dana Farber doctor.

She is truly a shining star on the HSL team and was critical to my rehabilitation. I can’t express my gratitude enough.”

Please share this Report with your colleagues who may have limited computer access or with those who may not be checking their email today.

Sincerely,

Lou Woolf